Published by St-Barth Weekly - Local News in English
Edition N°383 - March 2, 2017 (Page 03)
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Maryam Eisler Makawee (Earth Maiden), 2015, Giclée print
The current show at Space SBH, a contemporary art gallery in Gustavia, is titled “Searching for Eve in the American West”, a new collection of photographs by the Londonbased Maryam Eisler. The show runs through March 7.
While working on a major book on American artists in their studios in 2012, Eisler visited Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu,́ New Mexico, the estate where renowned American modernist Georgia O’Keefe lived, worked, and produced her iconic paintings.
The experience of arriving at the house— surrounded by rugged cliffs and craggy pinnacles, and starkly delineated by the brilliant desert light—was a revelatory, haunting moment for the photographer. Echoing O’Keefe’s own words: ‘Such a beautiful untouched lonely feeling place, such a new part of what I call “the Faraway” ... It is a place I have painted before ... even now I must do it again,’ Eisler was captivated by the brutal vastness of the New Mexico desert, and vowed to return, this time with camera in tow.
In an attempt to capture something of the landscape’s primordial significance, Eisler spent days in the majestic, inhospitable environment, working from dawn to dusk and traveling deeper and deeper into its canyons, plateaus, and arroyos, photographing female models within the desert surrounds. Across the series, Eisler’s photographs capture the immensity of geological time and wild space; following in the footsteps of some of the most renowned artists of the 20th century, she has rendered this mythic landscape with sensitivity and vision.
Maryam Eisler Space SBH Gallery, Gustavia
Through March 7
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Maryam Eisler Witashnah (Virginial), 2015
Searching for Eve in the Amercian West Maryam Eisler Private view: Wednesday 1 March, 6:30-9pm Exhibition: 27 February - 8 March RSVP info@spacestbarth.com Space Gallery SBH Contemporary Art Gallery, St Barth Art Books, Photography, Painting, Sculpture and more...
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