Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by Rena Bass Forman. Titled Ice, Water and Other Divine Inspirations, this show will juxtapose Forman’s Sri Lankan Buddhas, seascapes, and new work featuring Greenland's glaciers.

In producing large scale, sepia toned silver gelatin prints, Forman has long felt a kinship with 19th century landscape painters, traveling all over the world, seeking sublime vistas and, as she states, "passionately following the light." This kinship is evident in her luminous photographs, which capture the power and fragility of our natural world. She has always embraced the idea that a landscape photographer is part adventurer and explorer, and has taken this aspect of her work to a new extreme. The Greenland photos find Forman exposing herself fully to one of the most inhospitable, inaccessible places on the planet, dropping by helicopter onto icecaps and dangling over precipices in order to capture her images.

Forman believes that the myths and rituals of a place are a product of the landscape, as much as they are a product of the inhabitants of that place. Thus, in her mind and her work, natural and man-made phenomena are inextricably linked. She approaches Buddhas, glaciers and the ocean with the same level of respect and reverence. Each photograph captures something that is at once majestic and mysterious.


For further information, please contact Amanda Snyder at 212-255-2718.