At The Atrium at 50 Church Street, Fourth Floor
50 Church Street, Cambridge, MA
Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
Exhibiting artist: Marc Goldring
About Marc | Marc Goldring makes photographs that capture the familiar in unfamiliar or unexpected ways. His recent work, At the Edge of the Pond, Boston, portrays a small slice of the natural world, particularly the edge where water meets land. He has shot in these places over the course of years, portraying reflections, colors and textures that form ambiguous and evocative images.
Goldring has exhibited in a solo show at the Brookline Art Center, Brookline, MA. Recent group exhibitions include: the Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Cape Cod Art Center, Bauhaus Prairie Art Gallery (online); and Cambridge Art Association. His self-published book, Discovering the Familiar, Selected Images and Words documents his photography and writing through 2008.
Goldring’s approach to photography echoes his artistic practice in an earlier career when he created sculptural forms in leather. His vessels are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg TN. He also received a Fulbright Lectureship to New Zealand during this time.
Statement | Marc has been walking around Boston’s Jamaica Pond for over twenty years, usually with his camera. It’s a good way for him to stay present. He’s watched people running, walking, sitting; children playing; and the landscape, land and water, always changing.
As time has passed, Marc have begun to let go of more familiar ways of seeing and pay attention to scenes he once ignored. He has found balance and beauty in reflections, visual confusions, accidental comings-together, and debris and castoffs.
Most recently, Marc has focused his attention on the edge of the Pond, the boundary between water and land, the place where one thing turns into another. He delights in the questions inherent in these images – about perspective, reflection, movement, light. What is “up” and what is “down”? What is “real”? It suits his sense of humor to ask these questions, to invite us to slow down, and to look deeply into these images to find answers.
See more of Marc’s work here: www.marcoclicks.com
