Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
If you are traveling – or resting easy – on the Cape or the Islands, there’s some wonderful photography out of Boston right now. Bob Avakian, whose image “Mist in the Meadow” is currently on exhibit until August 31st, 2014 at the Griffin Museum’s 20th Juried Show (http://www.griffinmuseum.org/blog/griffin-main-gallery/) will also have his work exhibited at The Granary Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard from August 17-30th (http://www.granarygallery.com/events.php).
Avakian makes extended exposures of scenes during the night and at dawn, capturing the quiet solitude of moments suspended between night and day. That aura of gentle light in his photographs imbues them with a sense of endless summer. What could be more delicious than that?
More magic can be cast upon you by Fran Forman at the Tao Water Gallery in Provincetown, MA from August 21-28, 2014 (http://www.taowatergallery.com/exhibitions,2001.htm). Also exhibited at the Flinn Gallery in Greenwich, CT this summer (http://flinngallery.com/onview.php), Forman’s photo montages weave surreal visual narratives that evoke history and ooze mystery. Her unique blend of archival images and themes of flight provide a fanciful summer escape.
For more information about Fran Forman, go to: http://franforman.com/site/home.html
For more information about Bob Avakian, go to: http://www.bobavakianphotography.com/night/index.html#Mist_in_the_Meadow
Feature image (and below): “The Other Side of the Barn” archival pigment print by Bob Avakian (courtesy of the artist and The Granary Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA)