‘Karamea’ by Randall Anway is one of the featured prints in the ‘Still Lightness’ exhibition opening this evening.
The Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library hosts the opening reception for its annual spring art exhibition, “Still Lightness: Digital Prints” this evening from 5 to 7 p.m.
Photographer Randall Anway’s deft handling of the visual elements nearly hidden in landscapes represents the culmination of many hours in earnest pursuit of an artistic goal. Anway says of his images, “I’m very interested in the forces shaping the landscape, our surroundings. Of course I include my fellow humans in there, but people rarely make it into these images.”
He continues, “For the most part, these digital photographic prints represent a personal effort to bring a sense of landscape closer to the surface of ordinary experience: to visualize at least some of what often goes unseen. While I find the natural world beautiful and compelling and while we, as a culture, have invested heavily in trying to understand (‘stand under’) all we can know about it, there are encompassing mysteries and edges surrounding our beliefs and visions of being in nature.”
In conclusion, he states, “I love being near the sea, and out in the forest. There’s an auditory quality to these places that’s virtually impossible to capture visually – it’s not exactly silence, but that’s what it feels like; an inner reverence that arises from being a part. I feel blessed to have the opportunity to dwell in that place and to cultivate a sense of ease and harmony with it.”
On view in the Ludington Gallery are a selection of mainly landscape images including black and white, color, and ‘wide spectrum’ (ultraviolet into infrared). Anway’s passion for travel and photography has taken him to wide ranging locations from Connecticut, Maine, and Oregon, to New Zealand.
Anway is a registered architect in Connecticut and New York. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut, Storrs. An avid amateur photographer, he is currently Principal at New Tapestry, LLC.
The exhibition is on display in the Ludington Gallery of the Library. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of works on display go to support the Library. The Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library is located at 2 Library Lane, just off Lyme Street. Gallery Hours are Mon. and Wed.10-7pm; Tues. and Thurs. 10-6 pm; Fri. 10-6 pm; Sat. 10-4 pm.
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