Landscapes are not just pretty pictures!!!

Well, at least not this time.

Brian Kaplan and David Wells Roth prove it.

This show will probe the very character of our artists.

Landscapes can reveal just what the artist thinks about. Just how the artist feels about the surrounding world... Sometimes suggesting an uncomfortable social agenda.

That's what the new show will do. It contrasts many things.

One is a photographer who stalks the desolate Boston night discovering land studying, of all things, blank spaces. And he carries a 4 x5 camera for incredibly detailed pre-digital detail. The other: oil on canvas in saturated color. He crisscrosses the same paths and roads but sees something totally different, a surfeit of action, vitality, life amid the urban complexity and chaos.

Desolate and bustle.
Color and black and white.
Day and night.
Good and bad?
Optimism and despair?


Hear what the artists say. Listen to Brian Kaplan tell of his night stalking adventures. Hear what David Wells Roth thinks about life and how he displays it in his passions and his work.

Image Credit, Top Left: Ramp to the Bridge, David Wells Roth, 2007, oil on board, 12 x 12.

Top Right: Blank Billboard #16, Brian Kaplan, archival pigment print, Edition of 10, 24 x 30.



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