Leading Madison Avenue contemporary gallery, Gallery Mark Hachem has announced the inaugural US exhibition of British abstractionist photographer Philip Letts - who also has a studio and house in the Hamptons. A pioneer in the field of ‘blur photography’, Letts creates work that merges the realism inherent in the photographic medium with the painterly and abstractionist possibilities of brush and oil. Born in 1966 and educated in England (Durham and Buckingham University), Letts transformed his early success in revolutionizing product and graphic design into a commitment to using the technological possibilities of the digital revolution as a tool for personal creative fulfillment and expression. The camera was transformed into the paintbrush and with it the destruction of the limitations and expectations of what it meant to create a digital photograph. ‘Blurred Vision: Selections of a Moment’ is designed to highlight the innovative scope at work in both Letts’ style and subject matter. Choosing to focus on images from ordinary daily life, Letts’ explores the implications of the erasure of objectivity in vision and evincing a more complex and ambiguous understanding of physical and visual realities. Whether that be through the figure of a boy running along a beach or the fading light of dusk, Letts challenges not only our vision of reality but the overriding obsession of the majority of contemporary art to serve only as a tool of visual and social shock. The opening is on May 20, 6-8pm, at Gallery Mark Hachem on the corner of 77th and Madison - and Hamptons Mag readers are invited! The exhibition runs from May 21 to June 1.
www.myhamptons.us - kara
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