Full disclosure, I have long loved Greg Donley’s photography. Why? The way he constructs these long horizontal works creates a left to right cinematic effect with the splicing. Therefore, from a distance, each work creates cool visual rhythms of light and space. In addition, he pairs these works into 8 upper and lower groupings duos, hence the title, 8xTwo. The […]
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Foothill Galleries of the Photo-Succession presents 8 x Two, an exhibition of cinematically horizontal photo-composites by G.M. Donley, opening Thursday, April 16. A peripatetic Clevelander, Greg hikes, climbs, rides, and strolls throughout Northeast Ohio and beyond, ingesting the culture, lore, history, landscapes, and urban rhythms into his visual documents. Prolific in his making, Greg continues to build on his decades-long […]
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Greg Donley’s photos of awe-inspiring places beg for consideration from several different perspectives. They’re compelling for their content, of course, which comprises some of the most sensational geography on the planet. But their form is inescapable, defining, and a really potent way of getting to the point. A collection of them are on view in Annotated Grandeur, March 13 – […]
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The chair has been front and center in visual art for thousands of years. In the regal granodiorite sculptures of Pharaohs and the grand medieval altarpieces of the holy family; bearing the weight of Picasso’s Gertrude Stein, incriminating in Steichen’s homicidal J. Pierpoint Morgan, Esq., and in so many of Alice Neel’s intimate portraits, the chair is the necessary object for the seated portrait. As […]
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