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2of 2 Gallery is pleased to announce a
solo exhibition of a new body of photographs by Toronto based
artist Stephen Brookbank. Neighborhoods and towns where so many of us came from and call home is the starting point of Brookbank’s work. East Side is a reference to the architecture and artifacts that grew up around early planners and industrialists building housing downwind from factories. Brookbank’s intention with this body of work is to capture the self reliance and strength of a people in a sometimes degraded and forsaken landscape. While uncertainty and uneasiness of our own times and issues of social justice are central part of Brookbank’s photographs he also focuses on communities where the interplay between life and work are not so easily distilled or understood. How our living and working environments are shaped by human experience is a predominate concern in this body of work. How the mind’s eye might travel when we catch a glimpse of our shared humanity through the framework of a window. What do we see in the looking glass of a doorway to a man’s home, steeped in the sweat of a life observed? The effects long exposures at night have in terms of colour and density through the available, primarily artificial light of a scene is endlessly interesting to me. The stark solitude and luminescence of night, from the lights of an apartment building to sentinel street lights and autos lit like beacons. The man-made light in our community streets reveals much that might be overlooked in the banality of day. Born in Nova Scotia (1968), Stephen Brookbank studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions: In Between, Rawls Museum Arts, an affiliate of Virginia Museum of Arts (Courtland, Virginia) and Blue, Smithfield Cultural Arts Center (Smithfield, Virginia). Brookbank’s work is also included in a number of group exhibitions such as: In Between, with Hullihen Williams Moore - Suffolk Museum (Suffolk, Virginia), Juried Photography Invitational Exhibition - Monmouth Museum (Lincroft, New Jersey), Up & Now! 12th Annual Photographic Exhibition - Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle, Washington), New In Town - Humble Media, The Gallery at 3rd Ward (Brooklyn, New York), International Exhibit of Fine Art Photography - The Center for Fine Art Photography (Denver, Colorado), Annual Juried Exhibition - Grimsby Public Art Gallery (Grimsby, Ontario). |
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