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Patricia Prince Tunnell will be showing new photographs at Greene Contemporary in April, 2007. A preview for the exhibition will be held on Friday, April 6 from 6 to 9 pm. The show will continue Saturday, April 7 through Saturday, April 28. The gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday 10 to 6 PM.
About the series of large scale prints called "New York Reflections" she has written that "these images are found moments" that she "sought out." Her exploration of subject matter in this series becomes "a visual kaleidoscope of people, objects and symbols." She claims "when they are in perfect synchronicity, I am successful." In her work she is "obsessed" "to capture a single moment" that is "layered…creating a collage of reality." With her work she challenges herself and the viewer "to slow down, to look… to see beyond and to have an adventure." Her images are not multiple negatives nor are they manipulated in a photo editor.
The remarkable photographs in this show are digital prints she has taken with her Nikon camera in New York. The prints are made at Laumont, the lab in New York that prints Gregory Crewdson's work. Her new Lambda prints will be on a super high gloss Fuji chrome paper.
Prince Tunnell was born in New York and graduated from Boston University's School of Fine and Applied Arts. She later studied drawing and sculpture at the Art Student's League in New York where she was awarded a first prize for sculpture in 1960. In 1976, she began to study photography at the International Center for Photography in New York. Her first major project took her to Puerto Rico where she had spent time as a child. There her objective was to "capture the beauty of the people and their land amidst the poverty" in rural parts of the country. She continued to work in New York where she focused on street scenes. In 1987, she recorded the lives of homeless people living in Thompkins Square Park. In 1992, she began to devote all her energies to photography and began using color. Since 1992 she has been working on her Reflections Series.
Prince Tunnell works in New York and maintains a studio on Anna Maria Island, Florida. She has had exhibitions in California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey and in New York where she is represented in numerous private collections. She is represented by Greene Contemporary in Sarasota.