(RED BANK, NJ) -- Oyster Point Gallery presents Michael White: Time Spans from July 9 to September 2, 2024. Michael White, a Red Bank resident, uses watercolor, pen, and graphite to create images of ancient and recent antiquities. His images range from Mayan ruins to the old Thunderbolt in Coney Island to abandoned bridges. The exhibit is curated by Ellen Martin.
"I remember as a child how certain household objects - tools in the basement, a desktop cigarette lighter, an antique eggbeater - held fascination because I saw their form before I understood their function," recalled White. "They were distinctive, inevitable, seeming like a species of animal or plant. Abandoned or ancient buildings are similarly potent - with their functionality gone, their pure form and character emerge. While nature reclaims them, they enter a new state combining their once-thriving older selves and the oblivion that awaits all things. Their being takes a last stand in the gulf of time, where beauty and sadness ensue.
"For decades, I’ve had recurring, affecting dreams of bridges, usually the New York area ones I’m most acquainted with," continued White. "Often, I'm on a very high, long bridge with a city visible in the distance, and I realize the bridge is still partly unconstructed. Major bridges from the early 20th century seem to aspire to something far beyond functional, something poetic and profound, though even their function - to span waterways and connect unattached lands - is itself resonant with metaphor."
Please join them for the opening of Michael White's "Time Spans" on Friday, July 12, 2024, from 6:00pm-8:00pm. It's a free event and everyone is invited. Light refreshments will be served. The Oyster Point Hotel is located at 145 Bodman Place in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Oyster Point Gallery Exhibitions, originally conceived by President Kevin Barry, and currently curated by Ellen Martin, provide a prestigious and viable alternative gallery venue to artists from New Jersey and nearby locations. Both emerging and established artists, many of whom are award-winning, have been included in the exhibitions that are shown in the public spaces of the first two floors of the Hotel. The work is primarily two-dimensional and encompasses painting, photography, wall-mounted sculpture, collage, and collaborative work. The Gallery is an asset both to our community and guests of the Hotel.
