Bill Phelps @ Robin Rice Gallery

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Bill Phelps @ Robin Rice Gallery

August 25th, 2023 by fstop

“MINNEAPOLIS THREE”, 2016, ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT

Bill Phelps: Visitor
September 27, 2023 – November 26, 2023

Opening Reception Wednesday 09.27.23 6pm to 8pm

“Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery VISITOR inspires the imagination. About life, about being, eye and heart his greatest companions, in images that breathe in their own atmosphere. A moment of pure sincerity, a world of surrealism, or suspended reality. It’s like a wondrous path in which spontaneity, intimacy and a truthful eye are at play time and again. You feel time passing, memories forming or coming to the surface, capturing the moment and its eternity with your mind’s eye but also in his. The VISITOR projects this otherworldly image of someone in search of something more, a deeper understanding of life, or maybe a youthful appreciation of it, or maybe both. The captured quiet of the muse seen through the suspended focus of the 8×10 view camera, the nuance, the in-between, the gaze. Every human being is a poet, a dancer, a VISITOR. Bill Phelps’ portraits, whether it’s someone he may know or not, are not frozen captures of stillness at a moment in time, but surrender to chance occurrences, always. He creates a curiosity, it can often be an invitation. No hurried departure, no preconceived destination, just a perpetual search.”

Robin Rice Gallery
325 WEST 11TH STREET
NYC 10014

Location: New York, New York City Type: Exhibition

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