The solo exhibition by pipi – Paris and Selected Works – has been extended through to February 26, 2011, at OPENSPACE, 9 North Moore Street, Tribeca | New York City. Please drop by, call or email for appointment.

Paris is a sufi dream-voyage in photographs taken with a Diana camera by pipi.  The images are hauntingly beautiful and surreal, characteristic of the NewYork-based artist’s penchant for capturing hidden nuances of the world around her.

Dead Ballerina is a large-scale painterly photograph of the artist herself. It references shavasana or “to die before you die” inspiring trust in life. The image distills the serenity of a deeply personal journey.

About the artist:
pipi is a NYC-based artist.  Her painterly images unveil layers of emotion within the everyday. The stories implicit in a wooden stool, an unmade bed, a strand of light, are fixed for eternity.  pipi’s photographs play at the gateway where the spiritual and the material meet: an ancient forest, a Parisian graveyard, a fallen teepee …  pipi herself plays the role of the artist/seeker in their frames. She carries an antique dresser across a meadow on her naked back, or lies as a dead ballerina in a cast-iron bed. Amazingly, these snapshots stem from the flow of modern life, uncontrived and captured through a myriad of photographic means: polaroids, lomo, diana, holga, leica m-8, cell phones, and film (super-8).  She creates art to transform, transcend, and communicate her multitude of observations, insights, thoughts and emotions which like meditation are often experienced in isolation. Her work consistently weaves together threads from different times and realities. Her work walks the fine line between a highly personal observation of inner states and a whole-hearted embrace of the world in its complexity and collusion.  The result is lyrical and melancholic.
http://www.pipiphotography.com

About the venue:
Located in Tribeca, Manhattan, OPENSPACE is a hybrid space for art, design & technology. While curating exciting new art and cultural events, the adjoining atelier functions as a multi-faceted creative studio.
http://www.openspacenyc.com

Exhibition Information

Artists: pipi
Reception: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 6-8pm
From January 19 to February 26, 2011
Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 1-7pm, or by appointment
Address: 9 North Moore Street, New York, NY 10013

Address: 9 North Moore Street, New York, NY 10013 (between West Broadway & Varick)

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