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November 1. 2020 - January 31, 2021This Regional Photography Exhibition on view in the Anne Kilcawley Christman Concourse Galleryon the 2nd Floor of The Butler's Beecher Center is a must see. Local artist Tazim Jaffer shares an organically exotic view point in this exhibition of black and white photographs. Tazim's choice of subjects makes for a profound collection of thought provoking images.
Artist Statement:
Increasingly over the years I have been photographing when I am not painting and love both mediums. Photography allows me to capture marvelous forms of nature, color, texture, line, shape, movement, and energy which are evolving. The act of capturing images with the lens of the camera is a metaphor for my artistic process. It allows me to process the world that I observe, filtering it through my psyche and present it to my audience. In creating images, I look for a structure, whether it is abstract, emotive, historical, culturally archival, personally narrative or an in-depth meditation. In creating a body of work, I am struck by the visual motifs that we find in connection to something primal, elemental, and divine.
Though the photographic images in this show are wide-ranging, they all spring from one sentiment—my being intrigued by nature’s forms, by human depiction of nature’s forms, or by the possibilities of my own artistic juxtaposition of
nature’s forms. -Tazim Jaffer
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Ave, Youngstown, United States