The Robin Rice Gallery announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2012, the annual group show of photographs by gallery artists.

This yearly show is synonymous with summer. The collection immerses the viewer in the mood of the season with its breezy and joyful tone fused with a contemporary edge. The artful curation reflects Rice’s signature style—an aesthetically unified yet eclectic blend of photographic styles and sizes hung in the salon from floor to ceiling. The SUMMERTIME Salon highlights Rice’s talent for selecting diverse, intriguing images that come together like a beautifully complicated puzzle to evoke the perfect harmony of summer. It is the best of what is and what might be—full of peacefulness, yet ripe with possibilities to be seized.

A mixture of portraits and still lives, Heal’s latest photos channel an older tradition of artistry with their classic composition, lighting, and out-of-time imagery. Frequently echoing Dutch master painters of the 17th century, many of the pictures almost appear to be canvases that have been allowed to accumulate a patina of age over countless years. However, the fact that these are indeed contemporary photographs subverts perception and forces the viewer to question what they are seeing and contemplate the creation process.
Viewed from a distance most of the images appear to be monochromatic, but with a closer look, the subtle colors, especially those in the still lives of flowers and fruit, reveal themselves gradually and ripen in the mind's eye.