Pine Portfolio Series – on sale at Picaflor Now!
The Pine Portfolio Series is an installment of shows featuring artists whose work is weaved together through certain common themes. For this first show, each artist is a skilled photographer whose eye is expressed through portraiture. While their subjects are vastly different — trapeze artists, young fighters, those at home — common threads pull each image into a larger picture. Learn more about the exhibit and the artists at www.pinepresents.com
The show will close at Picaflor Studio Friday, 26 February, at a reception from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. That said, art will be available for sale after the show. Email holly@pinemagazine.com or call 404.512.8088 for more information.
To view the each artists gallery, click on the artist’s picture.
Alana Goldstein
Using photography as a medium, Alana Goldstein tells visually compelling stories that are emotional in manner and reflect moments in time, a trait directs her lens to issues that dominate the news and those that are easily forgotten. Her body of work entitled “Young Fighters” is a collection of images that explore the pervasive violence in American culture. For the past two years, her focus has centered on teens and adolescents, and the issues that directly affect them. This age group’s self-awareness and ultimate vulnerability has the power to expose greater societal issues.
Click here to view Alana’s photos
Karen Shacham
Through portraiture, conceptual and documentary photography, Karen Shacham examines how culture and society inform individual identity, and seeks to expose a truer sense of self-expression. In her trapeze series, Shacham documents several acrobats in Baltimore, Md., peeling back the layers of otherness that confine the performers by merging the fantastical with the ordinary. Something that we see from far away with no personal connection can become, through portraiture, a way to study and humanize what we see as extraordinary. This selection is an example of the documentary storytelling that Shacham weaves through her work.
Click here to view Karen’s photos
Dave Batterman
As a photographer and graphic designer, Dave Batterman specializes in revealing the surreal aspects of ordinary life. His work spans portraiture, music, travel and abstract subjects, often incorporating field recordings and tangible artifacts in his work. His series “At Home” examines the juxtaposition of a person’s current environments and their first memory of home. Through photographic prints and recorded interviews, the viewer is immersed simultaneously in both, breaking down the traditional dialogue between a two-dimensional print and our three-dimensional world.
Click here to view Dave’s photos
