Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of new work by acclaimed photographer Abelardo Morell. Adding to his celebrated body of work, Morell continues to push the boundaries of the way we see. By using the centuries old process of the camera obscura, Morell’s post-modern strides go even further as he tweaks these traditional techniques into contemporary perspectives.

Morell’s Camera Obscura scenes grow increasingly complex both optically and compositionally. These new images have “inverted the inversion.” Morell has turned the traditional camera obscura into what appears to be an optical impossibility. These images read as interwoven layers of light and space, thought and design. Time passes improbably as one gazes at the Pantheon and asks how this way of seeing is possible?

Morell’s explorations of not only the medium of photography, but the science itself, has created some of the best examples of each genre: still life, landscape, portraiture. Still life and landscape, the most dominant genres of this new show) are surrounded by their own magical world that only Morell can create for them.

Morell has also begun to venture into color, a tool he only previously had toyed with. We see a full on foray into the depth that color can bring to an image, and it adds another dimension of optical difficulty and mastery. Using color has also allowed Morell to examine the juxtaposition and relationships between different mediums such as a series that was created at Yale Art Gallery using their exemplary art collection. Placing classic and or important masters of sculpture and painting together we see how these art forms speak to each other and then are formally joined by the younger sibling of classic media: the photograph. A Victorian sculpture may look fitting next to a classic Hudson River school landscape, but it is not until Morell lends his lens to them that they come together through photography into a visible conversation.

The artist attended Yale University and is a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art. His pictures are owned by museums and major collections across the globe. There are six published monographs devoted to his work.