ROBERT KLEIN GALLERY January/February 2011 OLIVIA PARKER STILL AND NOT SO STILL LIFE January 14 - March 5 OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTIST: SAT, JAN 22, 2-4 pm Focal Possibilities, 2010. After studying Art History at Wellesley College, Olivia Parker began her career as a painter. In the early 1970s, she became fascinated by photography and the endless possibilities of light. Mostly self taught, she learned by filling trash barrels with rejects.   The pictures in this exhibition have a specific reference: 17th century Dutch, Flemish and Spanish painting, light against a dark ground. Parker's images, however, remain photographic; light and lens shape them. Some subjects exist in black space and others have a sharply photographic foreground with the background dissolving into darkness pierced with windows of glowing light. Occasionally the darkness reveals its own dark objects. In some of these pictures all is still and in others the objects start to fall or swing. Many of the image components are expected: fruit, flowers, ceramics, glass and ledges. The unexpected objects, for example what looks like a canning jar that contains a human brain, may have their own kind of beauty, but they also refer to a broader less insular world of inquiry: from the history of science to the question of the transformation of organic matter in a jar after an extended stay in the refrigerator. Parker's photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Victoria and Albert Museum in London and many others. She has had well over 100 one person exhibitions. Residencies include The MacDowell Colony, Dartmouth College, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Aegean Center on Paros in Greece. To view more images, click here For questions regarding pricing or editions, please contact Eunice Hurd at eunice@robertkleingallery.com or 617.267.7997 new works by... BILL JACOBSON Places (260), 2009. In 2007 and 2008, Bill Jacobson traveled to a number of desert locations in the American west, resulting in the series Some Planes (exhibited at Robert Klein Gallery, Spring 2009). The body of work was less about landscape and more about creating an image with two very different, but equal, rectangles. For the past two years, Jacobson has been exploring a new body of work, Place (Series). Its starting point again is the rectangle, which is the basis for what humans create. Oddly, it's also not a form found in nature. The recent work involves placing rectangles of various sizes in a variety of both man-made and natural settings, suggesting a variety of structures, and the contradictions between architecture and nature. The work explores the dialog between the abstract and the real, an idea found in Jacobson's earlier out-of-focus images. The white and black boards can also suggest notions of the infinite, echoing the very light and dark portraits Jacobson created in the early and mid-nineties. To view more images, click here For questions regarding pricing or editions, please contact Eunice Hurd at eunice@robertkleingallery.com or 617.267.7997 new works by... GREGORY VERSHBOW Art in a Liminal Space (DC #1), 2010. If you're like Gregory Vershbow, who earned his undergraduate degree in photograpy and biology before getting an MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, odds are good that your two passions will intersect. Working digitally and, in his terms, "with experimental chemistry," Vershbow has amassed an impressive and diverse portfolio over the last ten years. Vershbow's ongoing series, "Art in a Liminal Space" (for which he travels to different museums to photograph works of art in storage and restoration), has taken a new turn with the recent photographs documenting the restoration of public artworks in the temporary spaces that are created around them. More often than not, Vershbow catches only the edge of a seated woman's arm or just a sidelong glance in her right eye. There is a sense of mystery to his work, a playful drama. To preview his new works online, click here Vershbow has also just completed a new book of photographs in collaboration with sculptor and printmaker Wilson Lawrence. In Dead Reckoning, Vershbow's photographs transform Lawrence's sculptural creations into representations of abstract spaces. Dead Reckoning will be available at Ars Libri Ltd. on January 7, when a show of the collaborative works go on display. 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