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1/11
To open our second year program, Light & Sie is pleased to present the work of two young artists expressing themselves through the medium of photography, Daniel Mirer and Joe Pflieger. Though there is not apparent connection in their mutual bodies of work, we invite you to consider them in comparison and contrast. Both are New York City based and both use elements of landscape in their work. But the similarities end there. Daniel is interested in the composition and geometry inherent in every image, whereas Joe is stimulated by the possibilities of seeing in subtleties, of the beauty that exists beyond the obvious.
“ArchitorSpace,” Daniel’s ongoing series of photographs of urban and suburban spaces is a tour de force of our world’s unknown (or unseen) architectural oddities. These are images of ordinary origin that are often digitally manipulated to magnify their unique qualities and offer an extraordinary view of the beauty that lies in plain sight, but unnoticed because we lack the proper perspective. Mirer writes: “The ArchitorSpace photographs display my specific interest in and fear of the banality of spaces in enclosed areas within post-industrial architecture. These places are typologies of contemporary post-industrial architectural aesthetic that makes the individual appear so displaced within the uncanny. The photographic strategy is to purposefully make these images heavy with absence; forgotten places that are entirely familiar. These deserted (non-site) environments reveal no history or functionality.”
Joe Pflieger’s photographs evoke Jungian archetypes in their simplicity. Whether they are images of a live oak tree or a mud-filled pond, we feel somehow familiar in their presence…as though they were images of every tree we’d ever known or every pond we’d ever waded through. And therein, lies the paradox of Joe’s work. Even though they seem familiar, they’re not. The live oak, with its spreading branches, resides securely within our mind’s eye: This tree is too perfect, we think, to be real. The image of the pond, too, becomes a tri-chromatic version of a Morris Louis painting, the ebb and flow of its layers too beautiful to imagine.
“ArchitorSpace,” Daniel’s ongoing series of photographs of urban and suburban spaces is a tour de force of our world’s unknown (or unseen) architectural oddities. These are images of ordinary origin that are often digitally manipulated to magnify their unique qualities and offer an extraordinary view of the beauty that lies in plain sight, but unnoticed because we lack the proper perspective. Mirer writes: “The ArchitorSpace photographs display my specific interest in and fear of the banality of spaces in enclosed areas within post-industrial architecture. These places are typologies of contemporary post-industrial architectural aesthetic that makes the individual appear so displaced within the uncanny. The photographic strategy is to purposefully make these images heavy with absence; forgotten places that are entirely familiar. These deserted (non-site) environments reveal no history or functionality.”
Joe Pflieger’s photographs evoke Jungian archetypes in their simplicity. Whether they are images of a live oak tree or a mud-filled pond, we feel somehow familiar in their presence…as though they were images of every tree we’d ever known or every pond we’d ever waded through. And therein, lies the paradox of Joe’s work. Even though they seem familiar, they’re not. The live oak, with its spreading branches, resides securely within our mind’s eye: This tree is too perfect, we think, to be real. The image of the pond, too, becomes a tri-chromatic version of a Morris Louis painting, the ebb and flow of its layers too beautiful to imagine.
