| HUNTERDON ART MUSEUM: Photography exhibition |
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This exhibition brings photographs that capture images the artist refers to as art detritus. These photos show urban scenes of walls covered with signs, graffiti, public notices and commercial icons. In the interplay of these elements a complex creative process evolves. The figurative deteriorates into the abstract and the abstract materializes into the figurative. Mr. Ripton states, "In my photographs I try to capture the essence of the artistic serendipity and complexity of art detritus." Commercial symbols become highly ironic, public street signs and eviction notices become purveyors of anarchic messages and scratches and reflections on a dirty window become modern art. Mr. Ripton's camera focuses on the unintentional melding of personal messages and commercial and public displays and creates evocative images that reflect contemporary urban life. |
