Traces: Fishtown in Flux
Photography by Rachel Zimmerman and Andrew Tomasulo

April 23 - August 13, 2006
The Open Lens Gallery at The Gershman Y, Broad and Pine Streets
Opening reception: Sunday, April 23 from 4 - 6 pm
Rachel Zimmerman

Rachel Zimmerman’s series of black-and-white photographs (above) documents a Fishtown that is no more: the interior of the Atherholt Machine Works, a factory building that was soon to be cleared out by a new owner. Each photograph reveals a tableau of objects from different periods, offering a memorial to the neighborhood’s industrial past, and a metaphor for its eclectic present.

Rachel Zimmerman is an artist and independent curator, and founder of InLiquid.com, a nonprofit artist membership web site for independent artists in the Philadelphia area, which currently has about 160 members. Zimmerman is also the owner of Studio Z, a graphic and web design firm which she started independently in 1994. She holds a BFA from the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and her photography is held in a number of permanent collections, including the George Eastman House Museum in Rochester NY.
Andrew Tomasulo

Andrew Tomasulo's work (above) shows atmospheric nightscapes in color, taken with long exposures on a medium-format camera. In these eerie and contemplative works, old and new coexist, and the natural world reemerges in vacant lots.

Andrew Tomasulo comes to photography from a background that includes painting and mixed-media electronic installations. He is a former member of Vox Populi Gallery, and his work has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and at galleries in Chicago, Moscow, and in Japan. Tomasulo holds a BFA in Painting from The Tyler School of Art at Temple University and an MA in Electro-Acoustic Music from Dartmouth College.
 
The Open Lens Gallery is located at the Gershman Y, 401 South Broad Street (at Pine Street) in Philadelphia. Admission is free. Gallery hours are Sunday - Friday, 9am - 5pm. Gallery information: (215) 446-3001. The Gershman Y is the Center City Cultural Branch of the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia, in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.