FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Elyn Zimmerman: New Photographs and Drawings

June 3 - July 30, 2005

Opening reception for the artist, Friday, June 3, 2005 5:00 - 7:30 pm.

Skestos Gabriele Gallery is pleased to announce its premier exhibition of new photographs and drawings by New York-based artist, Elyn Zimmerman. The exhibition will include ten large-scale color photographs and a selection of black-and-white drawings executed from 2002 to 2005.

Although most widely known for monumental, public and corporate sculpture commissions, Zimmerman has employed photography and drawing - often in concert - since the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s. In recent years, however, photography has become an increasingly important component in the artist's investigation of nature and its representation in art.

Since 2002, Zimmerman has used digital format, color photography in her unique exploration of the transitory qualities of the natural world. The works on view at the gallery feature images of both calm and turbulent water, and the active surfaces of a variety of plant life, which are then assembled in grid form. Zimmerman's approach to the subject brings to mind the work of a number of visual artists who presented nature in serial fashion, including French impressionist Claude Monet, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and minimalist artist Sol Lewit, among others. By joining multiple viewpoints and multiple moments, Zimmerman suggests a synthetic view of natural phenomenon. She invites the viewer to meditate on the passing of time, and the unity and beauty inherent in natural forms.

The large brush and ink drawings also to be shown at the gallery were executed at the same time as the photographs, but in a more abstract language of pure gesture and atmosphere, which - like the photographs - evoke natural forms and phenomena.

Elyn Zimmerman's Chicago debut was in the form of a dramatic and memorable temporary installation at the Museum of Contemporary of Art in 1979. Her large-scale sculptural work in Chicago includes an elaborately landscaped plaza commissioned for O'Hare International Center in 1987. Other major examples of Zimmerman's outdoor work can be seen in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City.

Skestos Gabriele Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting the work of both emerging and mid- career contemporary artists from around the world. Please contact Stephanie Skestos Gabriele for more information.

Gallery hours: Tuesday - Friday 11:00am - 6:00pm, Saturday 12:00noon - 5:00pm.