Artist Statement: 
I apply the early 20th century aesthetics of “straight photography” and “modernist photography” to capture unmanipulated images of the real world in the 21st century. I capture the monumentality of the ordinary, whether it is an abandoned building or everyday street life. The images pose questions rather than answers.

​Whatever the subject, I never compromise careful attention to line, form, composition, texture and light. The finished product must be a compelling image. I compose in the camera’s viewfinder and use the computer like a traditional dark room to make adjustments of exposure, contrast and color balance in order to more closely approximate what the human eye can see.
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Artist Bio: 
A serious amateur for many years, photography became Alan Strassman’s second career in 2008. His work has been widely exhibited and is owned in private, corporate and museum collections. Recent exhibitions include group shows at the Attleboro Museum, Griffin Museum, Emerson Umbrella Arts Center, Danforth Museum, Cambridge Art Association, Panopticon Gallery and Connecticut Academy of Fine Art and solo exhibitions at The Harvard Graduate School of Education and The Newton (MA) Free Library.  His publications include Signs of Life, an illustrated history of photography and New England Mill Towns, contemporary images from the birth place of the industrial revolution in America. (www.blurb.com )
 
Alan has studied art history, drawing, sculpture, ceramics and photography at Princeton, Westchester Art Workshop, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Maine Media Workshops. Also, a graduate of the Harvard Business School, he has been active on the Board of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (President Emeritus) and on the Board of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Chairman Emeritus).
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Artist Statement: 
There is design and order in the universe, in spite of and apart from human influence. Gravitational pull, the seasonal changes, cellular replication, animal behavior, biological homeostasis, oceanic tides, the miracle of human gestation, mathematical equations and constructs all reflect and point to a Designer. Amidst the complexity of it all, as we peel away the outer layers, there often emerges a simplicity to what we see, think or feel. And the result can be surprisingly beautiful.

Though we live in a world marred by man’s pain, sorrow, violence, injustice, greed, prejudice and hate, there is still much beauty; beauty in the common things, everyday things around us. My desire is to create the most evocative image possible; to portray common things, often, in an uncommon way, in order to capture some of the essence of the Designer and to transport the viewer, no matter how briefly, to a more tranquil and serene view of this world.
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I am drawn to both natural beauty and patterns that are naturally created, the everyday things we too often take for granted. It is a challenge the render this common beauty in an uncommon way or to simply woo its essence from what is seen.

Artist Bio: 
​Carol began her career in commercial photography, moved into freelance and in the last ten years has exhibited throughout New England, in New York, on the East Coast and California. She is represented locally in Boston and the Boston area and the Canterbury Shaker Village Museum Gift Shop. A member of the Cambridge Art Association, Wickford Art Association and the Attleboro Arts Museum, Carol’s work has won awards and is in private collections.  She is a published finalist in Photographer’s Forum magazine’s “Best of Photography", 2011 through 2014 and 2016, and is a published artist in the Winter 2016-2017 issue of Studio Visit magazine. She offers photography lessons privately as well as to groups through galleries in Southeast Massachusetts.
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