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October Issue 2006
Points of View Photography Gallery in Raleigh, NC, Features Works by Maia Dery and Diane Amato
Points of View Photography Gallery in Raleigh, NC, is pleased to be presenting the exhibit, At the Beach, featuring photography by Maia Dery and Diane Amato. Together they explore intimate, expansive and nostalgic shoreline views, striking in their subtle beauty.
A resident of the Triangle since 1969, Maia
Dery has degrees from both UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke. She is the
photography instructor at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC and
has exhibited throughout the Triangle
and in California. Her work in this exhibit is a continuation
of a larger series of traditional black and white prints with
shorelines as their subject.
Dery has been photographing the coasts of North Carolina and California since childhood. Her black and white work focuses on the interplay of light and shadow along shoreline grasses and dunes. The resulting images are evocative of both coastline views and the otherworldly.
With degrees in Business and Commercial Photography, Diane Amato opened a studio in Chapel Hill where she photographs artwork for local area artists and does advertising work for corporate clients such as General Electric, Habitat for Humanity, Durham Art Guild, and the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.
Amato's images have appeared in Hush Magazine, Marcel Shurman Cards, Gardenwise Magazine, 500 Bowls, 500 Teapots, and Handbuilt Tableware. She has exhibited her work throughout the Triangle as well as in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, and Maryland.
Amato says her intent with this work is to capture images she feels are reminiscent of a day at the beach, including "the sound of the ocean, the feel of sand and sun." Her prints are gelatin silver and have been toned first in a brown bath and then in a yellow toner which produces a posterized effect, exaggerating the sun's light. The resulting color on the print is copper, bringing to mind the heat and warmth of the sun at the beach.
Points of View represents a growing number of outstanding resident photographers in the Triangle area.
For further information check our NC Commercial
Gallery listings, call the gallery at 919/829-1000 or at (www.povgallery.com).
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