Foley Gallery

Closing Sunday: Welcome to THE SALON!

1. Lori Perbeck "Still Life with Watermelons" 2023
Lori Perbeck has a background in fine art. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. Perbeck, in her signature use of color and light, embraces themes of maternal love, aging, and impermanence.

2. Andrew Rizzardi "Christ Belgium" 2022
Andrew Rizzardi has a background in visual media and communications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Rizzardi looks at the evolving nature of masculinity, devotion, hope, and sorrow through the genres of portraiture, self-portraiture, and landscape.

Opening tomorrow! Welcome to THE SALON

1. Lee Isles "Untitled 1" 2021
Lee Isles has a background in fine art and technology and lives in southwestern Vermont. Isles’ small-scale black and white images from a long-ago deserted nature preserve are poetic meditations on the metaphysical.

2. Chloe Jones "Calf" 2022
Chloe Jones has a background in art history and is currently pursuing an MFA from the University of Hartford. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and Fayetteville, Arkansas. Jones explores myth-making and kin—humans and animals—against a backdrop of her Arkansas family home.

3. Tom Klem "Passage" 2021
Tom Klem has a background in sculpture and magic history. He lives in New York City. Klem’s constructed black and white images reach to the Universe and are imbued with his deft hand as a sculptor and magician. Wilson’s monochromatic images suggest realms at once known and unknown, where fantasy, mystery, and narrative can be found.

Next Week in Welcome to THE SALON!

1. Irina Chaiet, "Untitled 3," 2023

Irina Chaiet was born in Russia and has a background in graphic design. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Photography from the University of Hartford and lives in Upstate New York. Chaiet boldly examines changes that loss, motherhood, and a move Upstate from her long-time urban home have presented.

2. Anastasia Davis "Untitled" 2023

Anastasia Davis was born in Ukraine and grew up in Israel and the United States. She has a background in psychology, is currently pursuing an MFA in Photography from the University of Hartford, and lives in New Haven, Connecticut. Davis’ black and white work is concerned with feeling, perception, and consciousness, and investigates how meaning can be made out of a relentless stream of sensation and information.

3. Pamela Fox "Plata Linings" 2023

Pamela Fox has a background in law and lives in Greenwich, Connecticut. Fox’s color images from the Bolivian salt flats transcend place and offer an experience of the sublime.

Show opens Wednesday September 13th!

Announcing "Welcome to THE SALON"
Exhibition Opening Reception & Book Launch: September 13th 5-9 PM
Show runs through September 17th

Welcome to The Salon, a group show of recent photographic works by The Salon, a collective of nine image-makers led by the artist Janelle Lynch. The 10 artists featured in the exhibition include Irina Chaiet, Anastasia Davis, Pamela Fox, Lee Isles, Chloe Jones, Tom Klem, Lori Perbeck, Andrew Rizzardi, Michael Wilson, and Janelle Lynch, who curated the show and is participating in collaboration with Flowers Gallery, London.

The Salon is comprised of image makers who studied with Lynch during the last decade at the International Center of Photography in New York City. It follows a long tradition of photography groups with shared beliefs and aesthetic goals. Born in Lynch’s Long Island City studio in 2015, it was relaunched virtually during the pandemic in 2021. Members meet weekly for discussion about the creative process, photographic texts, poetry, artistic references, and for constructive feedback about their images. Once per month, guest artists are invited to present their work.
While diverse in their backgrounds, chosen media, and respective creative inquiries—from notions about perception and the metaphysical in nature to family history and the cycle of life—The Salon members are united by an ethos of artistic integrity, discipline, and intellectual vigor.

Welcome to The Salon showcases two large-scale cyanotypes from Janelle Lynch’s newest body of work, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, recently debuted at her solo exhibition at Flowers Gallery in London. In them, Lynch uses her body and wildlife and botanical remains in her quest to connect to the natural and spiritual worlds.