FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! ROSS LOWELL’S TIME TRAILS

Images from the Pound Ridge Library Show

Image from the Pound Ridge Library Show

Image from the Pound Ridge Library Show

“TIME TRAILS” PHOTO EXHIBITION AT THE POUND RIDGE LIBRARY IS THE FIRST OF ROSS LOWELL’S THREE WESTCHESTER COUNTY EXHIBITIONS SCHEDULED FOR 2010.

MASTER OF LIGHTING, ROSS LOWELL, EXPLORES THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE’S LIGHT AND MOTION IN HIS DEFT TRANSITION FROM MOTION PICTURE FILM TO STILL PHOTOGRAPHY.

POUND RIDGE LIBRARY SHOW OPENS MAY 15, 2010 WITH ARTIST’S RECEPTION FROM 3-5 P.M.

For much of his creative life as a multi-award winning cinematographer, lighting expert, book author and founder of Lowel-Light Manufacturing, Ross Lowell has explored the boundaries between Art and Craft.

Now at the age of 83, Mr. Lowell says he has crossed a crucial threshold in this exploration. Over a lifetime of observing nature through a camera lens, he has transitioned his vision from literal reproductions to fanciful reconstructions, built from borrowed elements of what he calls “bent” reality.

A longtime Westchester County resident living in Pound Ridge, Mr. Lowell is preparing three photo exhibitions of his nature photography for display at Westchester County venues this year. Beginning on May 15, 2010, Mr. Lowell’s indoor “Time Trails” Exhibition will open at the Pound Ridge Library Gallery in Pound Ridge, New York. In the Fall, the Westchester County Parks System’s “Art in the Parks” Program will also host two unique exhibitions of Mr. Lowell’s work.

“Ross’s work is all about transforming the beauty and fascination he finds in Pound Ridge,” said Michele Gage, a Pound Ridge Library Board Member and co-curator of the photo show with Rick Rogers.

By pushing craft and aesthetic boundaries in his abstract nature images, Mr. Lowell, author of “Matters of Light and Depth.” has found a way to express his continual fascination with Nature, light, texture, color and motion through his still photography. Using camera movement, long exposures, mirrors and imposed symmetry, he has discovered surprising visual parallels with the natural cycles of our world.

“Nature photographers typically go to great lengths to avoid any camera motion in order to achieve clarity of detail,” he explained. However, for the last few years, Mr. Lowell, a winner of an Academy Award for Technical Achievement and a two-time Academy Award nominee, has been moving in the opposite direction.

As an example, Mr. Lowell cites the spiral, which is one of Nature’s fundamental building blocks. His spirals blend subjects and backgrounds in a way that suggests not only movement, but also Nature’s recycling and redistribution of her elements.

“Trees grow and move, flowers bloom and die, rocks are pried up by roots and tumble downward, Nature, like our own lives, is filled with perpetual motion, but it is on a time scale that ordinarily eludes us.”

Utilizing this perspective, Mr. Lowell’s photographs play out as intense, painterly interpretations of color and motion that hint at alternative perceptions of time and space; the rush of an insect pollinating a flower or the centuries-long turf battle between a rock and a tree.

The exhibition will include his latest work, using mirrored image compositions, which release the “hidden” designs and creatures within rocks and trees.

Mr. Lowell’s spirals and abstractions are made in the camera during long exposures and camera movement. He does not layer his images through Photoshop or any other computer software.

In October, the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation will host an outdoor exhibition of Mr. Lowell’s photographs hung from the trees as 5′ x 7′ banners along the serpentine trail of the Pine Forest. The third show of his work will consist of an indoor and outdoor show, in late November, at the Lenoir Preserve in Yonkers.

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Mr. Lowell is also available for interviews about his work. Copies of Mr. Lowell’s photographs, for use only in the promotion of the show, are available through the Time Trails Pressroom at:

http://www.photoshelter.com/c/rosslowell/invite/l/U0000k4Y9onAxjZQ/L0000d6N.W6GdCMg/6b53fc6fa0ad

TO ARRANGE AN INTERVIEW OR FOR MORE INFORMATION

PLEASE CONTACT:

Marilyn Shapiro

914-589-2217

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