Offer Goldfarb in his studio Stark, postmodern, and highly intriguing, self-taught Israeli photographer, Offer Goldfarb creates a world of his own through the power of the lens. Goldfarb offers up spare yet symbolic imagery of strong contrasts: hard and soft, here and nowhere, consciousness and void. One of his preferred aesthetic tools is employing large expanses of muted tones to build a dramatic effect, a sort of sensorial deprivation that ends with a vibrant focal point. The urban landscape’s walls, pavement, stairs and buildings are the boundaries wherein dwells the spirit. Lone protagonists linger nearly beyond our sight, in stairwells, peering up close through cracks, or from afar. Displaying a preference for sandy beige and cool grays, offset by tiny areas of crimson or cobalt blue, the pictures are as much a nuanced study of color as an emotive tool. There is a gritty post-apocalyptic feeling to some of his urban works, as if the air had been sucked out of the atmosphere. However it is not destruction but a marked absence of humanity that is both startling and peaceful at once. “I regard photography as a mirror—reflecting my inner world,“ he explains. “Abstract, for me, is getting far from the thing itself, but always leaving a hint for life.” There is a spiritual quality to the works that deal with maintaining identity in a cold hard world. Goldfarb will also turn his minimalist principles towards nature and through his reduction of the human influence we are confronted by elegant, almost painterly images. Hints of nature are often coupled with concrete, glass, or steel.

From the Phenomena Series IV - Mixed Media on Aluminum 45'' x 29'' Alexey Marroquin - Symbolic Organic Forms
Alexey Marroquin's longtime interest in working with metals and architectural materials has led him to his current work, which brings universal forms of nature together with skilled and sensitive metalwork in stunning and beautiful ways. His mixed-media pieces highlight a dialogue between intimately organic forms and the beautifully pliant metal of aluminum. Nodules and bumps dot his surfaces in arrangements that resemble microscopic shapes, with a symmetry that brings to the forefront the idea of an order that might be buried within nature and which has been revealed here. Spherical shapes and loops of filaments connect tiny starbursts, and it is this mix of tendrils and stationary nodes that gives Alexy's work its sublime tension. The subtle tones of his colors suggest the surface of pale, imperfect skin, here elevated to the level of the symbolic. Alexey has always been interested in the hidden logic of the universe and believes that it is through art that this logic can be revealed.

Old Shoes - Black & White Digital Photography on Hahnemuhle Cotton Paper 20'' x 28'' Italian artist Alberto Quoco’s expressive photographs speak of an aesthetic fervor for the sensations of motion, stillness and time. In his early work as a dance photographer, he experimented with photography’s expressive possibilities in creating meaning as well as suggesting silent narratives. Since then, his work has explored the beauty created when light and shadow meet by capturing stunning architectural images, sensitive and penetrating portraiture, dramatic nature scenes and figurative works which range in mood from contemplative to erotic, from pensive to serene.
Alberto’s style varies according to his subject matter. Some of his work follows a realist tradition, focusing in vivid detail on everyday objects and elevating them to meaningful aesthetic themes. His work is also dreamlike, with time and motion appearing to stand still while the tactile qualities of the material world gain a transcendent luminosity.