PAUL FISHER GALLERY

433 Flamingo Drive West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 T. (561) 818.3235 www.paulfishergallery.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (West Palm Beach, Florida) New photographic works by New York-based artist Kit Kittle opens on Friday, December 20, 2013, at the Paul Fisher Gallery. Kit Kittle is a professional photographer whose new and exciting series of works examine novel compositions created from a camera s lens. These works portray the visual benefits of harnessing reflection and distortion, resulting in a magical, futuristic environment that combines elongated abstraction with elements of recognizable objects. The results of these masterful experiments are highly unusual, large-scale photographic prints, which offer an unexpected common denominator in the fragile temporary shapes of clear, sizeable but delicate and weightless bubbles that have been handcrafted by the artist. Kittle has joined a respected fraternity of contemporary photographers who set up arrangements within exotic settings that are fascinating to observe and challenging to figure out. In this series on view, Kittle begins with an engaging pictorial foundation using different exotic locations from around the world, such as Laos, Bali, and Thailand, s water bubble that will be floated into the picture plane at just the right moment when the camera snaps the image. Kittle carefully has developed his own method for creating bubbles on a monumental scale. Unlike the transient shapes that float out of a bubble pipe, Kittle must build substantial globe-like forms that are big enough and strong enough to last, in order to act as the mirrored surfaces that display the intended nearby imagery. Kittle uses a variety of inventions, depending on the subject he has in mind. For some cases, he utilizes a stick connected to a rope that forms the sudsy film into the desired spherical shape. In other circumstances, a plastic hoop is dipped into a soapy substance and swung into the air, producing a flotilla of shapes that drift gracefully, defying lens. The photographer calls the thin soapy film , which acts as a conduit for the psychedelic colors that replicate a variety of subjects, such as palm trees or nude models. The shared and focal point of interest in each picture is an irregular transparent orb that for example floats in the air, rides on the water, or sits on the grass. Some of the circular forms are reminiscent of a classic Dale Chihuly glass sea form sculpture; ; or even the popular, enormous silver jelly bean shape by Anish Kapoor in Chicago. Bruce Helander, the well-known art critic, In this exciting exhibition comprised of several dozen works, the viewer is taken on a magical mystery tour filled with brightly hued forms and unique reflections presented in handsome compositions, which are compelling and often mesmerizing. Here and there a bit of whimsy is introduced, as in a portrait of a small monkey who was gently and patiently acclimated to s wafting shapes until the decisive moment was found and the bubble just above the monkey s head resembles a comic strip speech balloon. Just as a photojournalist needs to be persistent and agile to get the

PAUL FISHER GALLERY

433 Flamingo Drive West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 T. (561) 818.3235 www.paulfishergallery.com

best shot of a fast moving event, Kit Kittle has found a splendid approach to picture-taking that is enjoyable and fascinating. The exhibition opens at the Paul Fisher Gallery, 433 Flamingo Drive in West Palm Beach on Friday evening, December 20, 6 9 pm. Admission is free of charge and the artist will be present. The show continues through February 5, 2014. For additional information, please contact Nidia at 561-818-3235 or go to www.paulfishergallery.com