Vision of the World

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Emmanuel Fremin Gallery is proud to welcome you into our new gallery space for our summer group show, Vision of the World, sponsored by Coco Libre. Meet the winners of our contest from 6-8PM.



Samera Abed

Samera Abed is an American artist of Palestinian descent, who currently lives and works in Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York. She has been inspired by artists like Richard Estes or Alice Neel. She blends traditional skill sets of realism within an ongoing evolution, in order to find a delicate balance between the structural beauty of architecture and movements of light across the urban topography of her surroundings. Abed has challenged herself to create a brand of realistic expressionism that she employs to document everyday life, trying to capture the essence of New York City, nexus of power and dreams.
In her latest works, Abed turns her attention to another city, as symbolic in its way as New York: Jerusalem, the ancient holy city of three major religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, whose status remains one of the core issues in the Mideast conflict. For Abed, this is an emotionally charged subject: both an artistic pilgrimage to acknowledge her Palestinian roots and a new voyage of self-discovery.



Taylor McCormick

Taylor McCormick is a teen photographer born in Edgewood, Kentucky, who moved at the age of two in John\'s Creek, Georgia. She is currently a freshman student in Photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design. At only nineteen years old, she has already created some very captivating images, which make one think of a daydreamer’s world. While many photographers can go over the top with this type of images, McCormick uses a more subdued approach to her creation. Through an involved and self-driven process, she matured from a high-school student with a camera and a rich imagination into a gallery-sponsored artist, traveling to Atlanta, Washington D.C., New York and Los Angeles for her work. Her artistic journey may be defined by the same word used to describe most of her published images: “dreamlike”. Nonetheless, her works present a wider range of stylistic nuances: from scenes dominated by a fairy-tale atmosphere to unsettling images reminiscent of the Romantic Gothic Revival. Her works were recently featured at the Affordable Art Fair (spring edition 2013) in New York.



Christophe Pouget

Christophe Pouget is a French artist who lives and works in Lyon. He uses photography as a mean of telling stories about the elusive passing time. By reconstructing in his own way urban landscapes of famous cities in the world (New York, Rio de Janeiro, Paris ...), or of places which affect his sensibility, he creates an imaginary and stroboscopic pictorial universe that questions our perceptive faculties. He assembles, without retouching, hundreds of photos taken in the same place at different moments, on intervals of time ranging from several weeks to a few years. Then, like a cubist painter, he reconstructs his images: from these recreated universes emerges a form of poetry, with a lot of details, lights, and colors that catch the eye and establish a new relationship of time and space. This personal vision, based on chosen moments that he returns to us by re-orchestrating his visual memories, delivers the essence and the persistence of places.



Steve Schlackman

Steve Schlackman is a lawyer by profession and a photographer by choice. Fascinated by the magic world of photography since his youth, he developed his passion over time. About 10 years ago, he began studying photography as art and took classes of advanced darkroom techniques, photojournalism, and portraiture at the International Center for Photography in NYC. His latest photographs depict Havana’s cityscapes in 2011, the very year when Castro retired from political life. They crown a long-term video project, started in 2004 and focused on “La Clave” – the rhythmic pattern that underlines different genres of popular Cuban music, ranging from rumba and mambo to salsa and Latin jazz. This music is also internal to Santería and to different Lucumi religious rituals. The black and white photographs of Steve Schlackman capture the high contrast between the poor neighborhoods of the Cuban capital, as a result of political dictatorship, on the one hand, and the rich afro-Cuban cultural heritage of their inhabitants, whose wealth is represented by their music and feelings, on the other hand. The picturesque images thus convey the message of the eternal joy of living despite socio-political hardship.


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