It will look like paint, but don't trust your eyes. Everything you'll see is actually a photograph.
On Sunday, Nov. 3., the New Canaan Library will unveil a new exhibition by artist Sarah Hood Salomon. Salomon's creations are all photographs taken in which "the manipulation of the camera while the shutter is open transforms light" into "brush strokes."
"We're very excited to have her displaying her art here," said Susan LaPerla, New Canaan Library Programing Director. "We haven't had a photography exhibit in some time and her art is very well articulated. It's a very good installation."
A reception for the artist and the exhibit, titled "Unopened Drawers," will kick off at 3 p.m. and is open to the public. It opens in the H. Pelham Curtis gallery of the library. Salomon, a Bethesda, Maryland, native, created the images primarily in the area's forests and parklands.
"Through her technique of moving the camera, she blurs the lines between objects to abstract and reveal more of their essence, reducing them to colors, shapes, and lines. The result is to show the scene, not in the instant of time when a camera shutter clicks, but as a confluence of several moments, 'the juncture of several slivers of time in a single image,'" read a statement on the artist from the library.
"It's a special treat to have her," LaPerla said. "She's not an area artist, and we don't often have work showcased from outside the area. What she's created is new and different and very accessible."
This exhibition is sponsored by the Art Committee, Friends of New Canaan Library. For additional information, visit newcanaanlibrary.org.
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