Joy Walker

Incamera

Wednesday-Saturday 1-6pm and by appointment

 For Immediate Release:

Toy camera trickery blooms in these large c-prints (24”x33”).  Taken on a garden club tour, various people gave permission for their feet to be photographed.  United with different “tops”, surrealistic and metaphorical meanings emerge in a surprising way.  “Leisure” and “Labor” become emblems; “Veteran” looks like its title.  In another photograph, a hand holds up a “vacation platter”. In another, a woman’s embroidered skirt fills a bustling greenhouse.  In this age of computer manipulation, one is bemused to find, on the contrary, all this happening ‘incamera”.

Joy Walker began exhibiting her abstract paintings in 1970.  In 2007, at 55 Mercer Gallery she showed paintings and drawings integrated with photographs, where the photographs act in formal ways, adding line, color, or shape.  Only in rarely do the photos add content.  This show at Gallery 128 is the first time Walker has exhibited photos that stand alone.

She grew up on a daffodil farm in the Pacific Northwest, studied at the New York Studio School and Columbia, lived in Toronto for 10 years, and has now lived and worked in Brooklyn for the past 25 years.  Walker has received grants from the Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation, Change Inc., Artists Space, The Canada Council, The Ontario Arts Council, and the NY Studio School.  She counts residencies for artists an important inspiration for her practice.

Two nights of poetry and music will be held at Gallery 128 during the run of the show.

Sparrow Poetry Reading with Music by Myk Freedman and friends, Thurs May 15, 6:30.  Whistling Winds with J & R Judith Levine & Rhoda Ross on flute, Fri May 30, 6:30.

 
 

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NYC, NY 10002
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