Photo exhbit in Ridgewood focuses on abstracts
Friday, November 15, 2013
BY EILEEN LA FORGIA
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
Jay Matusow’s images range from representational to the abstract, but common themes reveal a preoccupation with lines, forms and textures rather than a story. His photo exhibit, “State of Mind,” is running through Dec. 1 at the Cottage Place Gallery in Ridgewood.
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“The works focus on something we could see every day, like rubber bands, peeling paint, a puddle, worn glass, plastic chairs or a stairway,” he noted. In each image or series of images, he tries to communicate his fascination with the visual qualities of the subject, by use of repetition, distortion, combination and layering.
“These techniques differ in magnitude, but not in kind from the ways all good photographers manipulate rectangular two-dimensional space to evoke a borderless, three-dimensional world,” he explained. “The best photographs – or the ones I aspire to make – embrace the difference between photography and vision and use it to advantage.” In this exhibit, he has taken this inherent difference to its logical conclusion by leaving the literal far behind and making images that are meant to portray how what he sees makes him feel.
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