Arts & Entertainment
Frozen in Time: Photography at Glenview
The mansion hosts architectural, figurative and landscape photographs by George L. Smyth, Susan Feller and Alan Simmons.
June's exhibit at the gallery features photographs from three separate projects that share an appreciation for photography's ability to capture a frozen moment in time without belying the liveliness of the subject.
The exhibit features the work of George L. Smyth, Susan Feller and Alan Simmons.
In The Braddock Project—Part I, Smyth, of Columbia, documents the city of Braddock, PA as it awaits its resurgence following the collapse of the steel industry, massive population flight and the ravages of hard drugs on its population.
Using bromoil processing, a time-consuming technique that marries photography and lithography and lends the photo a nostalgic feel, Smyth presents a series of 21 handmade prints as a baseline for what is to come.
Now that he has meticulously cataloged Braddock's historic resources, he plans another trip to document the people living there before everything changes to accommodate new development.
Feller's series Holding Patterns: People and Places combines digital photography with encaustic—a wax-based paint—to capture fleeting moments in time.
Feller, of Wheaton, photographs people and nature in transition, adding atmospheric hues or accent colors in Photoshop to emphasize the tension in the situation at hand.
"I like the gesture. It's not so important who the people are. I just love the way people stand or sit," she said.
"Until this show, I did not think of myself as a photographer," she said, referring to her mixed-media process.
Feller has a concurrent exhibit at the Touchstone Gallery in Washington, DC.
Simmons made his foray into photography through local camera clubs, including the North Bethesda andGaithersburg Camera Club, after retiring from the Department of Energy.
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He looks for leading lines and patterns when photographing architectural motifs and details in black and white on his travels.
His work in the show features friezes, colonnades, staircases, arches and ceiling patterns from the National Cathedral, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Building Museum, the Coliseum in Rome, Sainte-Chapelle in Paris and other sites in Israel and Spain.
The Glenview Art Gallery hours are:
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Tuesday, Thursday: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
