2019 Exhibits

In the Gallery & Annex

Easton Nights, Valley Days – Photographs by Peter Ydeen, January 13 – March 23

Easton Nights (Main Gallery) is a story which grew from our unique and uncommon valley in where the Easton lies, and is told with images of the unpeopled landscapes taken at night. Here, in the small hours, the world we see as mundane cascades into dream. Like a surreal scene from a Guilermo del Toro film: trash bins and Toyotas, stop signs and doorways; all become animated. They lean, they stretch, and emanate with umbrageous hues, which seem to exhale from the nights own personal color wheel. Scattered signs give words, marking our place in time, while the geometries show our relentless effort to organize our world in a box. These are our stages, with the houses our beehives, and the doors our portals. Complete they are a mimesis of our daily life, as can only be shown in the often mystical emptiness of night. Then with the dawn, comes the beginning, where we all wake, then act; all while these magical and romantic worlds return to sleep.

Valley Days (Gallery Annex) is a series of urban landscape photographs taken in the Lehigh Valley by local photographer Peter Ydeen. With its unique small town character and long varied history, our valley is presented through shapes, colors and arrangements. The series usese the tenets of Urban Landscape Photography, finding the often subtle and unnoticed beauty normally perceived as mundane. The backyards and parking lots, work places and signage, all reflect the intricate and colorful stages, which we create for our worlds, but rarely notice. With its’ playful, lyrical and chimerical overtones, Valley Days reveals the optimistic light in our daily life.