Sat 1/21 @ 6PM
Many photographers travel to a foreign locale and become swept away by how exotic everything is. Upstate New York photographer Gregory Halpern, a Buffalo native who lives in Rochester where he teaches, goes in the opposite direction, finding distinction, intrigue and even beauty in his bedraggled and worn-down post-industrial area.
Some of those stories will be on view at the Transformer Station through Sunday February 5 in his solo show 19 Winters / 7 Springs, his largest museum show to date. It includes 50 color prints, as well as freestanding sculptures based on modest Buffalo homes.
“An ode to the social landscape of this corner of post-industrial America, the work expands upon Halpern’s distinctive documentary style rooted in both the real and the sublime,” we’re told. “Halpern tells his stories in both monumental prints and in suites of smaller images, much like musical or poetic phrasing.”
Halpern is back at the Transformer Station this week for a conversation with writer/photographer Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa. They’ll talk about how the current show came about, why Halpern uses his local area as his subject matter, and the difference between photographing for the wall and a book (Halpern has published six books, with a new one based on the current show coming out this month.)
It’s free but registration is required. Go here.