Gallery
14
Contacts:
Fine Art Photography
14 Mercer Street
Hopewell, NJ 08525
609-333-8511
www.photosgallery14.com
Tasha O’Neill
609-921-2621
tasha@tashaphotography.com
David H. Miller
609-577-0564
daveinmoscow@yahoo.com
March 27, 2007
For Immediate Release
Gallery
14
Closing Reception April 15 1–5 pm
The Intimacy of Flowers, Tasha O’Neill
Tasha O'Neill's exhibition captures through the lens what is not visible to the naked
eye. To capture "The Intimacy of Flowers", Tasha uses her imagination in conjunction
with her 100mm macro lens and creates images that are surprising, detailed, abstract and
visually exciting as well.
"I see the amaryllis, not just as being a flower, but as having a soul. It draws me in. I
am making images and exploring at the same time. I am on a journey. I want to discover
everything about this unique flower: its sensuous curves, its reproductive organs. And
in so doing I am drawing comparisons between a flower and the human form.”
In “Boudoir”, the crimson-edged frills of a white peony evoke a lady’s peignoir, while
“Coquette’s” fronds mimic a lady’s fan.
Sparks fly and dance in “Ignition” and “Firebird”. And the lavender rose twists and
turns in “Vertigo” and the flower in “Vermillion” folds into lush fabric.
“Pavlova” moves on point across the frame.
These are images that will make your imagination soar. Additional work may be seen at
www.photosgallery14.com.
Spirits in the Garden of Eden, Vivian Abbott
Guest Photographer Vivian Abbott’s exhibit “Spirits in the Garden of Eden” was inspired by
her paradise of intertwined gardens above the Delaware River. As the seasons’ rhythms and
light altered the flowers and trees in her garden, the stones, decorative objects and statues also
changed, creating varying emotional responses. Cherubs that seemed magical enchanting
creatures in one season and its light, appeared brooding and mysterious in shadows or in waning
light.
In a series of sepia-toned images, she recreates the changing moods of inanimate garden objects
that radiate their own energy and evoke memories of a lost paradise.
“I discovered the ability of these objects to stir emotions and elicit a sense of life’s complexity.
By chance, I noticed the cold weather had broken a wing on a small stone angel that lay behind a
wall and captured it before it became covered with autumn leaves.”
In an image titled “Temptation”, a winged nymph stands juxtaposed to a bed of phlox. The joy
in the photograph is tempered by the dark tones.
An aged stone Buddha, cracked and seated in a bed of pine bark, is aptly titled “Resignation”.
The face of a delicate wooden cherub in “The Fall” initially appears endearing, but erosion of
the facial features quickly dissipates this impression.
One photograph in the series “Memory & Desire” focuses on an angelic figure lost in thought in
a leafy setting.
The image “Farewell to Autumn”, resembling cascading figures, forms a tapestry of dreamlike
reflections.
The compositions generally have an aura of melancholy and complex lyricism often associated
with older photographs.
Gallery 14 was established in 2001 by a group of central New Jersey photographers who
opened the Gallery on September 14, 2001 as a center for photographers in the area. It was then
probably the only gallery in New Jersey dedicated solely to photography. In its 5 years of
operation Gallery 14 has become a center for regional photographers, a place where
photographers can come to meet their public and their peers, and where they can exhibit their
work, many for the first time. This is a Gallery where experimentation is encouraged, and where
photographers can grow into their own artistic selves by exchanging ideas, by experiments with
them out and having their peers respond to their experiments.
The Gallery is run by its members who create, operate and exhibit at the gallery along with guest
photographers of local and international reputation as well. Its exhibits have been wide ranging,
from classical black and white studies of flowers and other still-lifes, dance and nude
photography, to travel and street photography in exotic locations such as Japan, China, Mongolia
Afghanistan, Russia and Laos. Exhibits at Gallery 14 have been featured in local newspapers
and on local radio and television stations, and its exhibits are regularly reviewed in the Newark
Star Ledger, The Trenton Times, and listed in the New York Times.
The Gallery continues its tradition of showing members’ works as well as guest photographers
from the New York to Philadelphia area, open on Saturdays and Sundays from Noon to 5 and by
appointment.
All exhibits open with a Friday evening reception for the public at the Gallery, and also feature
an opportunity to meet the photographers and discuss their work, usually during the first
weekend of the exhibit. Gallery 14 is also the site of a monthly meeting of local photographers
who show their work and invite discussion and criticism in the spirit of increasing their skills and
understanding of their own and others’ photographic work.
Gallery
14
Calendar Listings
The Intimacy of Flowers, Tasha O’Neill &
Spirits in the Garden of Eden, Vivian Abbott.
Closing Reception April 15, 1-5 PM.
March 16 - April 15
April 20 - May 27
Coney Island, Lost and Found
Joanna Tully and Marty Schwartz
Exhibit opens April 20 with a reception for the public 6-9 PM and continues through May 27.
Meet the photographers who will discuss their work on Sunday, April 22, 1-5 pm
June 1 – July 13
Against Falling Light: The Delaware at Dusk, John Blackford &
wall to wall, Barbara K. Suomi, Guest Exhibitor
Exhibit opens June 1 with a reception for the public 6-9 PM and continues through July 13th.
Meet the photographers who will discuss their work on Sunday, June 3, 1-5 pm
July 13 - August 24
Hopewell, a group exhibit by the members of Gallery 14.
Exhibit opens July 13 with a reception for the public 6-9 PM and continues through August
24th.
Meet the photographers who will discuss their work on Sunday, July 15, 1-5 pm
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