Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present David Linger: The Sea Within | O Mar Adentro, a collection of black and white photographs of beach scenes printed on translucent porcelain panels.  

Linger is a careful and intense documentarian of people and their relationship to the sea. His subjects are groups, pairs, or solitary figures entrenched in intimate moments, joyous celebrations, or lost in contemplation. Linger’s images are at once familiar and atmospheric and bring the democratic nature of the beach to the fore.  

Taken at two places dear to Linger’s heart, Ocean Beach in San Francisco and the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, these photographs are an elegy to the sea and its visitors. Though the two locations are starkly different, Linger brings them to equilibrium through his process as the vibrant, chaotic Brazilian beach is bathed in the misty grey of the northern CA coast. His two mediums are chosen for their joint ability to interpret time with permanence yet intense fragility.