On View: February 5-20, 2016
Opening Reception: February 6, 2016 | 6-8 p.m.

For many years, Finkel’s photography used traditional techniques to capture glimpses of the human psyche in candid moments or the wonders of nature and its denizens in the world around us. In his new body of work, he has gravitated to the creation of an amalgamation of photography and painting whose diffuse subjects are those fleeting visual images that are available to us all but generally ignored.

Reflections centers on the disregarded visual impressions created by reflected surfaces that frequently surround us in our urban environments, the ones we pass by without emotional or intellectual consideration or even registration in our consciousness. Whether from the surfaces of high-rise buildings, storefronts and display windows, through bus windows, or even a lowly puddle.  Using created juxtapositions and arbitrary colors the mundane is transformed into the extraordinary. Images are stripped of identifying factors but are otherwise untouched and need not be deciphered to remind the viewer of the many moments that even the humdrum reflections around us offer another visual reality filled with its own intrinsic beauty.

This exhibit benefits Cal Lutheran and New West Symphony, with all net proceeds from the sale of work generously donated.

Image: Paul Finkel, Entrance 2, Giclée on photo metallic archival paper with acrylic mount, 26.75 x 20 inches, 2015. Courtesy of the artist.

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