The Lake Placid Institute of Lake Placid, New York, opens an exhibition "Places of the Spirit: Sacred Sites of the Adirondacks" at the Adirondack Lake Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, on Friday, May 23rd. Curated by Mara Miller of the Miller/Geisler Gallery in New York City, the exhibition includes the work of four photographers: Barry Lobdell, Heather MacLeod, Romaine Orthwein, and Shellburne Thurber.
"Places of the Spirit" is presented from the perspectives of architecture, history and the cultural contexts of particular landscapes and the people who inhabit them. The exhibition attempts to show how the sacred may be represented in particular sites or structures, and how the photograph, as both a recorder of the present and a memory of the past, may shed light on issues related to religion, aesthetics, cultural history, art history and architecture
The four photographers use their cameras to define what is "sacred" by finding a quality that cannot be precisely pinpointed, but represents the evanescent quality in an abandoned structure, devoid of human presence or a site that has been adapted for other uses. The Methodist-Episcopal Church built in 1835 in Essex, New York, for instance, is now a senior center; and the former Episcopal summer church in Franklin Falls is a store.
Made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, the exhibition moves to The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida from November 7th to December 14th. A show at the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is scheduled during June and July of 2004. A book, Places of the Spirit: Sacred Sites of the Adirondacks, has been published featuring the photographs included in the exhibition and explanatory text. Visuals of the work of the photographers can be obtained by calling the Miller/Geisler Gallery.
The Miller/Geisler Gallery is located in the Chelsea area of New York City and exhibits the work of selected contemporary artists, both established and emerging, from the Americas and Europe.
Miller/Geisler Gallery511 West 25th Street, #305New York, NY 10001Open Tuesday - Saturday from 10 to 6.212-255-2885 Fax - 212-255-6518www.millergeislergallery.com
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