For the first time, Touchon Gallery https://www.touchongallery.com/ will be presenting a one-of-a-kind art project called ‘REFLECTIONS | Тhe Other Side’ by an LA-based underwater fine art photographer Alex Sher on the 26th annual LA Art Show at the LA Convention Center on July 29 – August 1, 2021.
The project ‘REFLECTIONS’ not only presents a new body of work in underwater figure photography but also reveals another side of female beauty.
‘REFLECTIONS’ is a series of underwater photographs showing the beauty of women’s figures through colors, lines, shapes created by reflections on a water surface. It is not quite figurative photography because the heroines in the photographs are not real. And the distortion that water adds creates completely abstract pictures, sometimes reminiscent of the works of Chagall or Picasso, sometimes – a very realistic stroke of a brush. It is the other side of underwater figure photography, another side of reality, another way to look at things, a different opinion.
“I grabbed my camera and jumped in the water again, as usual…however this time instead of photographing models I started looking up – at the other side mirror. The things I saw were definitely not what I expected to see. Let’s say it was a very different reflection because the water surface was moving. This movement brings out a features we are missing in regular mirrors. It was not a reflection, it was an opinion.” – photographer Alex Sher says.
Alex Sher admires a feminine sensuality and reflects it in his underwater artworks for more than 10 years. LA-based photographer Sher was born in Ukraine and moved to the US with his parents in 1995. Sher’s works were exhibited in Louvre (Paris), in museums of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Moscow, and published in Moevir, Contemporary Art Curator, The Nude, Best of Photography, and many others. His first personal exhibition was in Beverly Hills in 2015. Alex’s first photo book “Mermaids” was published in 2018.
A selection of works from the new series ‘REFLECTIONS | Тhe Other Side’ will be presented along with several famous art pieces from the past photo collections. All together Touchon Gallery will be showing 9 pieces of the artist, Alex Sher.
LA Art Show. LA Convention Center. July 29 – August 1, 2021
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