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PDN: Lydia Panas Show Opens In NYC Tonight
Thursday February 4th, 2010
PDN just featured Lydia Panas‘ fine art project, The Mark of Abel, opening tonight in Chelsea at the Foley Gallery and running through April 20th:
You can read more about it on PDN’s website, where they interview gallery owner Michael Foley about the reasons he chose Lydia. She’d been sharing her work at portfolio reviews since 2006, and it wasn’t until a few years later that she met up with Foley, who asked her to show at his gallery.
According to PDN he was “taken with the honesty he saw in the images. “I think that people are so prepared when a camera is focused on them to exert a certain face or look or posture,” Foley says. “I felt like Lydia disassembled and deactivated all those things that people use to prepare themselves. [The images] were very arresting, and I rarely see that in contemporary portraiture.”
He was also impressed with her dedication to the project, which took three years to shoot, and feels that she has a strong ability to articulate her vision clearly for this body of work and future projects.
Enjoy the show!
Lydia is a Philadelphia based photographer with Wonderful Machine.
-Neil Binkley
