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Adam Bartos (b. 1953)

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Adam Bartos is a contemporary landscape photographer based in New York City. Bartos attended film school at New York University in the early 1970s, where he began working with color photography and was mentored by the photographer Evelyn Hofer. Bartos earned wide acclaim for his 1994 book, “International Territory,” which examines the aging modern architecture of the United Nations building in New York City, and has since published many more critically acclaimed books, including “Yard Sale Photographs” (Damiani Editore 2008), and “Darkroom” (Steidldangin, 2012). His work is in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and others.

South Africa

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April 13 – May 26, 2017

Opening reception:
Thursday, April 13, 2017
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

ClampArt is pleased to announce “Zack Seckler: South Africa”—the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

In his latest mission to capture stunning aerial views of land, sea, and wildlife, Zack Seckler took to the skies above South Africa for seven days from dawn until dusk in a tiny, single-propeller, light-sport aircraft. His abstract, minimalist photographs offer an extraordinary perspective of some of the planet’s most remote locations. Seckler used the maneuverability of the small plane to his greatest advantage, instructing the pilot to fly precisely to locations which caught his interest.

Describing the experience and the photographs produced: “I liken it to being over a giant canvas and being able to create brushstrokes. . .” He continues: “From elevations between 50 and 500 feet, the landscape hovers on the line between things looking very real and recognizable and being more abstract. That’s what really draws me in—the line between reality and abstraction.” Deliberately avoiding the horizon and often shooting from the plane window at an angle perpendicular to the ground adds to the disorientation of the curious, two-dimensional images. Other completed bodies of work include aerial landscapes of Iceland and Botswana.

Zack Seckler was born in Boston, and studied psychology at Syracuse University. Then, traveling solo with a point-and-shoot camera in northern India, his mind opened to the visual world. Upon returning to Syracuse, he took coursework in photography at the renowned Newhouse School. With an internship in a Hong Kong photo studio and editorial work in New York City, he developed his vision for image-making.

Sarah Hinckley

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Sarah Hinckley was born on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and has been painting for twenty-five years. She studied at the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland, California, as well as the Museum School in Boston, and Tufts University. She continued on to receive her MFA in painting from Columbia University. She currently lives in New York City and has a studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.