The series by Aleya Lehmann was selected by Gabrielle Greenberg, Independent Curator, Photographer, and Digital Content Manager at Howard Greenberg Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery,during portfolios reviews organized by The New York Chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP NY) on February 18th, 2015, in New York.
My creative practice has transitioned over the past several years from painting to photography with my formal training as a painter informing my most recent work in important ways. In early 2012, I began working collaboratively with a model in my Brooklyn studio to explore figurative imagery and narrative. Carefully choreographed motion and long exposures resulted at first in a series of “short stories” However, more recently, color and composition have come to the fore, and I am now in many ways, painting with my camera.
The images presented here are from two recent series: “Pageant Play “, 2014, and “In An Artists Studio “, 2014, both of which were developed in connection with my interest in the visual “cues ” that move a narrative forward. Last summer I self-published “Pageant Play “, a limited edition photobook featuring several of these images, which was included in “INFOCUS Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks” at the Phoenix Art Museum (2014).
