PS122 Gallery presents recent photographs by Meryl Meisler and Julie A. McConnell.February 28-March 22, 2009 9th Street, between First Avenue and Avenue A
PS122 Gallery is pleased to present Locks, Combinations, and Keys by Meryl Meisler and the three-part photographic series “Animals in Mind” by Julie McConnell.
Meryl Meisler’s Locks, Combinations and Keys reveals an intimate glimpse of the inhabitants and relationships inside a NYC Public School. Her images are installed with magnets and locks that were cut off school lockers whose owners forgot their combinations or lost keys.
Meryl Meisler received her BS from the SUNY College at Buffalo and went on to receive her MA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Meisler has exhibited her work at several museums including The Brooklyn Museum and The Whitney Museum, and has her work in the permanent collections of The Brooklyn Historical Society and Library of Congress.
Julie A. McConnell focuses on the connections between humans and animals in Animals in Mind, a three-part series of photographs and stereograph cards. Playing on the notion of a photograph as an image of the real, these images symbolize the contemplation and practice of a respectful connection with other animal beings.
Julie A. McConnell, a fine arts photographer living in New York City, exhibits locally and nationally. Her work has been exhibited in Neither Muscles Nor Secretions in Madrid, Spain and Aljira’s Emerge Program and Exhibition. Her work has also been featured in the books A Thousand Hounds: The Presence of the Dog in the History of Photography and Death in the Studio, and selections of her digital montage series “Hillary et al.” were featured in Photography Quarterly.
The hallway exhibit is by Joyce Yamada and Joanne Ungar.
For further information please contact:
Susan Schreiber, Gallery Director at 212-228-4249 at ps22gallery@verizon.net.
