Confluence

It's interesting to see a similar theme crop up in the work of disparate photographers exhibiting in concurrent shows. The images below center on solitutde and loneliness in open spaces. If you clicked over to the Design Observer discussion I linked to last week, you'll know that some folks find this sort of phenomenon unsettling, and occasion to cry plagerism. Personally, I believe there is nothing new under the sun and it shows a great sense of extended community to know someone else is delving into the same themes from a different viewpoint or perspective.

Mathieu Bernard-Reymond
Through Feb. 26th at Remy Toledo Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 8th Floor
(212) 242-7552

Stephen Hughes
Through March 5 at Robert Mann Gallery
210 11th Ave
(212) 989-7600

William Lamson's "Horse" and "Deer" are particularly good examples of this theme, better than his self-portraits which are more literally similar to the Reymond and Hughes images above.

Through Feb. 7 at Pierogi 2000
177 North 9th St., Brooklyn
(718) 599-2144