Fri 11/4 @ 6-8PM
Sat 11/5 @ 3-4PM
Too many photographers travel to an exotic locale and become swept away by how FOREIGN everything is, taking mediocre images of signs in a different language. That’s not upstate New York photographer Gregory Halpern, a Buffalo native who lives in Rochester. His material is his home county, a homely and unexotic as it is. But he understands that there are countless visual stories to be told there.
Some of those stories will be on view at the Transformer Station for the next few months in his solo show 19 Winters / 7 Springs, his largest museum show to date. It includes 50 color prints, as well as free-standing 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.”
The show opens with a reception Friday November 4 @ 6-8pm with remarks at 7pm; he’ll give an artist talk at the Transformer Station Saturday November 5 @ 3-4pm. The show will be on view through February 5, 2023. Admission is free.
transformerstation.org/gregory-halpern-19-winters-7-springs/