November 8, 2012, New York, NY: An exhibition by Professional Women Photographers juried by Amy Arbus will open at the Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main Street (btw Water Street & Front Street), Dumbo, Brooklyn, on Monday, November 19, 2012 with a reception from 6:30 – 8 p.m. The show is up in the gallery now and will run through December 2, 2012.

In a time filled with severe economic and social pressures, many people have experienced loneliness and a fear of being left behind-of being abandoned. But abandonment also suggests freedom from restraint; a sense of surrendering one’s self to something joyous and exhilarating-the flip side of loneliness and fear, a much-needed respite in today’s world.

In this exhibition, 31 members of Professional Women Photographers will explore the idea of abandonment from many perspectives. The show was juried by Amy Arbus, a photographer renowned for her dramatic, psychologically penetrating images of figures from the stage and life. She has published four books, the latest of which, The Fourth Wall, has been hailed by The New Yorker as a “masterpiece.€ Her photographs have appeared in over a hundred publications worldwide, including New York Magazine, People, Dazed and Confused and The New York Times Magazine, and her many clients include Chiat/Day, Foote, Cone and Belding, American Express, Saatchi & Saatchi, SpotCo, New Line Cinema and Nickelodeon. Ms. Arbus teaches at the International Center of Photography, the Maine Media Workshops and The Fine Arts Work Center. She has had twenty-one solo exhibitions worldwide, and her photographs are in the collection of The New York Public Library and The Museum of Modern Art. She is represented by Anthropy Arts in New York, and The Schoolhouse Gallery in Massachusetts.

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Contact:  Catherine Kirkpatrick
Phone:    917-304-4354
E-mail:    info@pwponline.org