Archway Gallery Current Exhibition
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October 5 - 31, 2024
Fractured A Photographic Adventure With 400-Year-Old Glass, by Larry Garmezy Click to get an early look at the work. If you're interested, I'm offering a pre-opening 15% discount using coupon code "Fractured" upon checkout from the online store (expires at midnight, October 4th). Or contact me at [email protected] if you want to get an in person look at the work before purchasing. Opening Reception Saturday, October 5 5 – 8 p.m. Artists' Talk at 6:30 p.m. Complimentary Valet Parking and Light Refreshments Demonstration: Make Your Own Free “Cubist” Cell Phone Portrait: DATE: Saturday, October 19, 2024 TIME: 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. |
Larry Garmezy’s sixth solo photography exhibition at Archway Gallery expands on his interest in visual distortion, this time using antique hand-blown glass to provide a new perspective. The project began over ten years ago in The Netherlands when Garmezy noticed the fractured and faceted appearance of a local carnival as seen through the 17th-century windows of the Delft City Hall. Inspired, he began capturing more images through original glass windows in other European buildings from the 16th and 17th centuries. Garmezy continued this exploration in Houston with “restoration” glass manufactured in Germany using 400-year-old methods. Designing a system for placing this glass between his subjects and the camera lens allowed him to deconstruct still lifes, portraits, musical instruments, Houston cityscapes, political landmarks and more. Together his photographs help us reflect on the “fractured” world we live in and the challenge of seeing it clearly.
Glass City
Garmezy with Feininger in Dublin
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Garmezy’s experience has led him to speculate that the “faceting” he observed, looking through centuries-old windows, could have influenced the artistic development of the cubism movement (1907 – 1918). “What I’ve seen, in the 2020’s, was certainly observable by the artists of the early 1900’s looking through similar windows,” Garmezy notes. The origin of the “faceting” in cubist paintings has been a mystery to art historians. In any case, Garmezy’s photographs bear uncanny similarities to the faceting characteristic of cubist paintings by Picasso, Braque, and Delaunay. This exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with a forward by Karen Schiff, recently of the MFAH, and now teaching Drawing at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, whose research on the early work of Picasso informs her commentary on Garmezy’s work.
Fractured also includes a selection of Garmezy’s landscape photography, created without distortion, for those who prefer a straightforward perspective. His forty-year career as a geologist informs all his photography, as he continues to chronicle what he finds intriguing in the natural world. |
OCTOBER 2024 EXHIBITION EVENTS
October 5 (Sat) |
Opening Reception (5 - 8 pm) and Artists' Talk (6:30 pm) |
October 6 (Sun) |
Danny Kamins Jazz Band (6 - 8 pm) |
October 13 (Sun) |
Houston Brass Quintet (6 - 8 pm) |
October 19 (Sat) |
Demonstration: Make Your Own “Cubist” Cell Phone Portrait |
October 20 (Sun) |
Carya String Quartet (6 - 8 pm) |
October 25 (Fri) |
Monica Moore Trio (7 - 9 pm) |
October 26 (Sat) |
Allegra Lilly, Harp (7 - 9 pm) |
October 27 (Sun) |
Pluto Soundz (6 - 8 pm) |