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Bert Katz’s Photographs

@ Edgar M. Bronfman Center

Bertram Katz, painter, photographer and faculty member of the Gallatin School of New York University, will be having an exhibition of digitized color photographs. The exhibition, at the Edgar M. Bronfman Center, 7 East 10th Street, will be on view from February 20 through March 21st 2004.

The photographs in the exhibition were made using a film camera. The negatives were then scanned using a high resolution scanner. The resulting photographs were then digitally enlarged and printed.. The exhibition consists of two groups of pictures: NYFaces and NYColors. In each photograph the image suggests Classical arrangements of the source. It is an unusual marriage between form and content in photography. These photographs are an outgrowth of an earlier art project which involved the artist’s drawings digitally reproduced on billboard sized vinyl.

Katz’s distinctive graphic style was recognized several years ago by Dore Ashton in the New York Times. The reviewer commented on the artist’s work at the Workshop Gallery: "...he has a clear graphic style...that are the outstanding exhibits in the show...He is inventive in his ink drawings as well, working out unique systems of form..." In this exhibition, the artist’s personal aesthetic and predilection for graphic signs are successfully transferred to the medium of photography. The artist is represented in many collections both here and abroad.

For more information, please contact Robert J. Saferstein, Gallery Director.

If you have any questions about the gallery, would like your work considered for an exhibition, and/or would like to make a special appointment to view the gallery, please contact Robert J. Saferstein, Gallery Manager.