Katsuhiro Saiki and Jennifer Williams

WHIRL

Gallery HO

547 West 27th Street #208, New York, NY 10001

Reception: October 2, 6-8 pm

October 2 – November 1, 2014

Thursday, October 2, Gallery HO opens WHIRL, an exhibition of new photographic work by Katsuhiro Saiki and Jennifer Williams. In the works on view, Saiki and Williams manipulate photographic images to create new visual experiences of New York City. For a series titled Buildings For New York City, and a number of complementary sculptures, Saiki combines sections of towering architectural structures into unfamiliar sights, using photographic images as raw material in constructing alien space. Williams’ series of collages, The High Line Effect, departs from reality in a similar way; Williams playfully links views from the city’s elevated park, creating a dense and disjointed depiction of place that perhaps more closely represents the experience of the park than a straight-forward image ever could.

The gallery hosts an opening reception Thursday, October 2, from 6 – 8 pm.

Katsuhiro Saiki, Buildings For New York City #10. 2011-2014, C-print collaged on paper, 28 x 22 inches. Courtesy of Gallery HO.

Katsuhiro Saiki, Study For Metropolis #13, 2008, C-prints, paper board, wood, water color, 19 x 7 x 11 inches. Courtesy of Gallery HO.

Jennifer Williams, The High Line Effect, Approaching Hudson Yards, 2013, archival pigment print, 22 x 17 inches, Edition 3 of 10, © Robert Mann Gallery. Courtesy of Gallery HO.

The exhibition remains on view through November 1.

For more information, please visit the gallery’s website.