The Kevin Barry Gallery

Gallery Hours: Monday-Saturday – 9:00am-5:00pm

Upcoming Show:

April 16, 2009 – June 11, 2009

URBAN PHOTOGRAPHY by Charlene Weisler

Gallery Opening – Saturday, April 18, 2009

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Artist Statement

Charlene Weisler’s photography of the ever-changing urban landscape reflects the transience and impermanence of street art. Concentrating on the evolving nature of layered graffiti, Weisler captures a timeline of competing artistic efforts and messages.

The result is a rich compendium of texture, color and form that showcases both organic energy and urban decay. This is a unique expression of environmental art as voiced by competing images and agendas, all of which are invariably undone and made all the more beautifully weary by time and weather. The transitory impermanent nature of street art arguably stands as this generation’s art movement. Steeped in tradition of portraiture, landscape, collage and abstract expressionism, urban montage street art is, in fact, more than the sum of its historical parts. It is one of the few art movements that shifts its tactile physicality on a minute by minute basis. Street art has a limited lifespan and, more frequently, shortly after creation often changes or is totally destroyed. Weisler’s haunting photographs maneuver between these worlds doing so in a way that makes the viewer see something totally new and self-contained. 

About the Artist