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In Tripping the Light Fantastic, the world’s simplest wonders are made extraordinary through the lens of photographers from across the globe. Everyday focal points are uniquely captured in this grand display of thought provoking images and technical mastery. From breathtaking depictions of nature to dramatic portrayals of the human condition, this exhibit will revise the way we see the world.
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Cariappa Annaiah
 
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I am a self-taught, eclectic artist based in the Boston area. I express my art via different visual media. The medium of Photography is one of my favorite avenues of expression. My subjects are anything that catches my eye, spotting the extraordinary in the ordinary, and range from the abstract to still or living life. My vivid imagination enables me to see what others miss such as the fleeting shadows on walls created by natural light. I have rarely exhibited my artwork in public, preferring instead to enjoy it in private with friends for the past 36 years.
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"Dramatic Lily (edition of 5)"
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"Rear Guard (edition of 5)"
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Gary Auerbach
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Whether it is his spellbinding portraits of Native Americans or his imaginative architectural images, Gary Auerbach’s photographs transport one to another era.
In the ‘Night for Day’ series, Auerbach photographs at night with an 8x10 view camera and prints his images in photogravure. The gravure process gives Auerbach a way to put the touch of his hand in the intaglio wiping of each print. Using the negative of a night image, he creates a result that has an impressionistic quality, somewhere between the setting of night and the dawn of day. Auerbach’s work was most recently included at the Musee Jenisch near Geneva, in a survey exhibition of prints representing etchings, engravings, gravures and photogravures from the 1400’s to the contemporary. Notable artists in the exhibition included Goya, Degas, Rembrandt and Strand. Fifteen numbered portfolios, as well as individually signed and numbered gravures from ‘Night for Day’ and an alternate series, ‘We Walk in Beauty’, will be available. Auerbach lives and works in Tucson, Arizona.
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"Notre Dame Day (edition 15)"
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"Eiffel Tower Day (edition 15)"
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Alfredo Esparza
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Alfredo Esparza's black and white photographs draw on the viewers' desire for human warmth and intimacy by placing lonely human figures in settings that evoke the alienating conditions of modernity. Esparza's compositions are structured around heavy geometric spaces. Stark lines, cast by shadows and water, dominate many of his photographs. In others, alienating architectural spaces and modern settings emphasize the isolation of a single person, or increase the impression of distance between two people. Esparza's photographs invite the viewer to take refuge in the human figures set amidst these cold spaces of modernity. His subjects are treated delicately and sensually, the soft warmth of their forms emphasized all the more by their jagged surroundings.
This is Esparza's first exhibition outside his native Mexico – where four solo exhibitions in 2007 testify to his growing success. This is indeed a terrific opportunity to witness an exciting young artist who will only become more important as his talents develop.
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"Fisherman, 2004"
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"Palomas con Luna"
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R John Ferguson
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My mind envisions a moment in time and I then pursue the task of creating and capturing the moment. I find trees to be fascinating studies, and snow yields numerous visions, yet a strong influence on my work comes from a completely different source; I find in Weston's images of Charis a subtle yet vibrant capture of more than an image. Weston's Charis images leave the viewer of today feeling as if you are part of the photo opportunity. With the inspiration I find in these images I attempt to capture memorable images of dancers and the female form. I want to draw attention to beauty which is too often overlooked.
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"Self Portrait Dove's Wing"
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"Baptismal"
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Roberto Grilli
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"Stones in Mist"
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"Hope"
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Perri Hart
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As an avid naturalist, Perri Hart takes beautiful photographs of the outdoors with a quality of light humor, drama and innocence. Capturing a variety of moments, from deer grazing in a summer pasture to the frigid dusk on a blustery lake, Hart recognizes the beauty to be found in every type of landscape. "I create images that you not only see, but feel," she states. Working in both black and white and color photography, Hart creates unmistakably crisp images while experimenting with different lens and weather-induced effects.
She majored in Photography, Film, and Video at the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston and gained experience in commercial photography before returning to her hometown in Upstate New York to work with her father Johnny Hart, the celebrated cartoonist of B.C. and Wizard of Id. Last year Hart opened her own gallery in the art district of her hometown of Binghamton, New York. Currently Hart divides her time between her gallery, continuing her father’s legacy in cartooning, and her life’s work, photography.
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"Left Behind on Pikes Peak"
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"Peace"
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Trinidad Mac-Auliffe
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With her background in anatomical drawing, and in theatre, Chilean-born photographer Trinidad Mac-Auliffe brings the painted human body into contemporary photography in dramatic and visually stunning ways. Spattered, dripping, and speckled designs highlight organic features like eyes, the twist of a neck, hands displayed either in prayer or protection. Painted skin transforms the human body into a theatrical stage for Mac-Auliffe, rendering the human body as an enigma, with the boundary between the mind and the soul as her subject.
There's vibrant longing in her portraits but also melancholy, a mood which can be found in her flowers as well. These are portrayed as torn or incomplete, unopened buds. There is a sense of potential being, of a mysterious persona eternally emerging from under paint or from gesture. The vulnerability of this never-ending self-creation pervades the photography of Trinidad Mac-Auliffe, for, as she says, "vulnerability is. . .what makes us wonder, think, cry, laugh, love and hate."
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"Materia 02"
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"Delivery Dialog 03"
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Mary Mansey
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My artwork brings out an abstract and unreal atmosphere. My photographs try to capture the impossible stillness of the current. In my landscapes, light and color provide the most important aesthetic elements, lending the scenes their weighty presence. These photographs are calm and quiet, yet retain a deep underlying contemplative presence. These strong, yet delicate landscapes serve to show the fragility of our relationship with the natural world. For places along shores, the reflection of the water is like a double life in a fantasy mirror to the unknown. I try to capture the strange echoing silence of drifting on a lake, the impossible stillness of the current.
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"Sailing"
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"Bouquet de Roseaux"
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Rei Niwa
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Rei Niwa is interested in documenting and introducing the world to traditional Japanese culture. Niwa’s work has a strong sense of place and interconnectedness.
His photos are an interesting combination of documentary and portraiture photography, only one of the juxtapositions that make his work so captivating. Niwa was born during the time when Japanese traditional practices were beginning to decline. The result is that his photos are timeless; we see the traditional trappings of the festivals Niwa regards as his main focus, but there is always a hint of modernity that snaps us back to the present, the background betrays the subject: the profile of a man in trendy glasses, a woman in a polyester skirt at the edge of the frame. He takes advantage of depth of field in his photographs and this further accents the contradictions in the scenes as well as society. Niwa began photographing at the age of 13 and belongs to belongs to the All-Japan Association of Photographic Society and The Photographic Society of Japan.
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"A Beautiful Parade Float"
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"An Admiration"
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Adolfo Orozco
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Adolfo Orozco, a Colombian architect and photographer, was raised on art and reverence of nature. He recalls his mother enrolling him in art classes at an early age, and taking long drives with his father through his homeland, paying homage to the universe through photography. Standing “on top of clouds… like a great mantle of cotton,” he developed keen aesthetic sensibilities and a devotion to nature that have prevailed and largely influence his art today.
The esthetics of architecture, the rituals of his Indian culture, and the magic of the landscapes of Colombia are the pillars of Orozco’s work. Each photo is a prayer beckoning the viewer to bow and acknowledge the glory of nature. His photographs rest on his spiritual foundation, forcing reflection and meditation. Brilliantly capturing nature’s quietest moments, a sleepy, amber sun peeping through the trees wakes the viewer’s sense of both awe and contentment. Adolfo Orozco’s work is exhibited throughout Colombia, where he currently lives. He is represented by the Agora Gallery in New York.
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"Espejo del Silencio"
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"Estrella Roja"
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Jacqueline Rosenberg
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“The beauty of people in photography goes beyond the reality,” Jacqueline Rosenberg states, “but that's why we love it.” Rosenberg’s two decades as a fashion photographer served as a sort of vocational training for her artistic career; and her trade has now been fully converted into passion. She takes as her subject matter women of varying types—but all strong, all emancipated in their femininity. Before transferring her photos onto canvas, Rosenberg superimposes upon them images of beads, jewels, geometric figures, out-of-proportion body parts from other photos—a practice that results in framing the internal discourse of each piece, allotting a viewing experience that is more than the sum of its parts.
Her approach reminds one of Picasso and how his distortions were always meant to convey information, to guide the encounter. If there’s a message Rosenberg hopes to convey, it’s that we should accept people of all kinds, and that we ourselves should be* *independent and free in our self-expression, our passions, and our joys.
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"Indian Queen"
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"Stones in Heaven"
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Paola Tarasconi
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Texture, line and a subtle sense of narrative imbue the photography of Paola Tarasconi. Capturing the urban images of Genova, Italy, Tarasconi’s unique perspective and eye for contrasting patterns and ideas, grants the viewer a wholly original view of modern reality. Tarasconi earned her degree in Architecture from the University of Venice and this specialization has no doubt informed her photography, as her work shows a special interest in the elegance of connections between people, buildings and roads.
In Tarasconi’s work, all elements work together to tell a story about interconnection between self and world. She says, “through photography we can see something like a third eye of the person, the eye that we can’t see… the kind of eye that doesn’t have any color or shape, but the eye which contains our whole hidden world.” Such insights into the relationship between art and human nature continue to inform Tarasconi’s work amd to intrigue the viewer, whose perspective will be enriched by this departure from ordinary perspectives.
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"Taking a Break in “Piazza Caricamento”, Genova 2006"
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"Every Day Meeting, Genova 2006"
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J. Thrush
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Hungarian photographer Judit Rigó, also known as J. Thrush, presents the beauty of the natural world through the lean line of a tree, the diamond-like brilliance of an icy day. Her scenes are full of spatial depth, the camera moving the viewer deeper into an ecstatic space. Thrush grew up in the Hungarian countryside and her intimate connection with nature, combined with an artist’s eye for form and perspective, makes her work serene yet mysterious; she beckons us off the well-worn path, to consider the road we did not choose as something more than a dalliance. Her landscapes are beautifully balanced and barely contained, full of rhythm and lush with the hues of nature.
Thrush began seriously photographing while she was a teenager. Her goal has always been to capture the simple loveliness of the world around us. She has exhibited her work in Hungary and lives and works in Gyöngyös, near the Matra Mountains.
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"Way to Faith"
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"Illusion"
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Stefanie Young
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My artistic practice is one of interdisciplinary exchange. I work with variables of light and space often using the gesture of a line or body to translate the photographic spatial experience through the media. My art making attempts to raise issues of perception and knowing, transgressing or perhaps intersecting the conventional codes attached to photography and painting. Photography is not easily separated from an experience of time and space. My research finds reflection within the writings of Geoffrey Batchen and Henri Bergson with specific reference to the ideas of ‘memory as a pre-requisite for perception…fused together with both body and consciousnesses’.
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"Surrender"
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"Punchline"
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Joe Zammit-Lucia
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British photographer Joe Zammit-Lucia will knock the wind out of you. A former physician, his universal tenderness is obvious; he lays bare a beauty that one occasionally glimpses, but is often eluded, in other photographer’s work. The nobility he brings to his black and white portraits of endangered animals, and his skillful use of light and shadow, culls empathy in the viewer. To say he anthropomorphizes his subjects is to vastly underestimate them; what you sense in the photos is real, and Zammit-Lucia has the power to make you see it. By removing his subjects from their surroundings one is forced to confront the power behind these images.
The stunning, minimalist composition and lovely use of contrast give his work a documentary feel. Zammit-Lucia has been photographing since he was 16. He has shown in the US and the UK and donates all the profits from his work to charities.
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"Resignation"
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"Freedom Dive"
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