Constructive Engagement

a photography exhibition by Eleanor Steinadler

Artist Reception: Friday, May 5th. 6-9 PM
Gallery Reception: Friday, May 12th 6-9pm

On view May 5th - 22nd

 For immediate release:

"With my camera, I paint passages of abstract compositions that nature and humans inevitably create.” -Eleanor Steinadler

Eleanor Steinadler has been photographing various Construction sites in the past few years. What began as a temporary fascination, has developed into a true constructive engagement.
Each site of construction had to be seen completely anew: thus, the NYC site has muscular strong saturated colors. The Truro site is bathed in a thinner, subtle, translucent atmosphere of Cape Cod – the partially reflected light of the nearby ocean. The Cambridge MA site rides on the contrast of ‘wet’ greens of the vegetation against the striking raw sienna of construction sand. The series continues with the harsher urban shots of South Boston, with its construction equipment taking a day off, idling in strange frozen poses.

The NYC and Truro series, represented here, provide a telling contrast. The emphasis for the very urban site, is on the clarity of every detail, fascinating in its sudden unfamiliarity. In the Cape Cod shots, Steinadler skillfully broadens our perspective. The view opens up onto a subtly luminous landscape. In contrast, the rusting construction equipment is almost swallowed by this expanse, alien in its fraught freedom under the open skies, but held in tenuous balance by the skill of Steinadler’s feeling for the composition within each photograph. Here, with each new shot, the colors shift slowly but inexorably, and the landscape gradually takes completely over, to leave a lasting ghostly impression in the viewers’ eye.  © 2017 Philip Gerstein

Artist Bio (short)
Eleanor Steinadler has been a professional artist since the 1960's, after having received her Graduate Degree equivalence from the Hochschüle für Bildende Künste, Berlin, Germany.
Her work has been in solo and group exhibitions in numerous cities as: Copenhagen,Amsterdam, Bern,Basel, Barcelona,Toronto, Boston and Boston area, MA, and New York City.
Her Exhibitions have been reviewed in numerous magazines, as:
Boston Globe and Christian Science Monitor, Boston, MA,
Modern Painters, NY/London,
and major newspapers in Toronto, Canada; Bern and Basel, Switzerland; Amsterdam and Leeuwarden, Holland; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Barcelona, Spain.

In the 1990's, Steinadler's work switched predominantly to photography.
 
 
 
Recent solo shows are:
   “About Construction”, Galatea Fine Art Gallery, Boston, MA in October 2015. Reviewed in The Boston Globe, 10/21/15 (Cate McQuaid).

   “Of Moody Beach: Impressions in B&W and Color”, Galatea Fine Art Gallery, Boston, MA in February 2013;   
   
  “Cape Cod in Winter”, Boston Public Library, Roxbury, MA in January 2012;
   
  “In Color”, Galatea Fine Art Gallery, Boston, MA in May 2010;
 
Her photographs have most recently been exhibited in these selected group shows:

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA;;
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA;
Provincetown Museum, Provincetown, MA;
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
And many more.
 
Eleanor Steinadler is residing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

To see more of her work: http://EleanorSteinadler.com