Color and Light: My New York by Pat Crutchfield on exhibit at E-Media, Eastworks, Easthampton

Dec 4, 2023 - Jan 5, 2024 | Themes: Photo Journalism, Travel

The Floyd Gallery is thrilled to return to E-Media with a NEW exhibit by Pat Crutchfield.

Pat Crutchfield will exhibit her Color and Light: My New York at E-Mediain the Eastworks Building, Suite 102, in Easthampton, MA.

Pat has selected images from her past trips to Manhattan. The artwork shares her keen seeing and delight with life.

E-Media is open Monday - Friday, 10;00 am -m5:00 pm.

The Opening Reception will be a part of the Art Walk, on Thursday, December 14, 6-8 pm.

Refreshments and Cool jazz await you. Join us.!

Color and Light: My New York

E-Media

December 2023

My father gave me a Kodak Brownie and a roll of black and white film for my eighth birthday. I immediately went to my neighborhood swamp and tried to shoot polliwogs … it didn’t work out very well. My first roll of film was a bust … but I kept practicing. My Dad taught me a lot, and then I went out into the world.

Fast forward to Now: My photography is the passion at the center of my life, and this passion carries me forward. Capturing images helps me to embrace the world and the people in it, and I photograph in gratitude for the gifts I’m given.

I have felt connected to New York City my entire life. I was able to visit relatives in Manhattan often, and, as a teenager, I walked my way around The City … through Central Park and The Battery and Times Square. Eventually, I was finally able to live, work and study in Manhattan. I captured few photos during that time, but I did make note of places to return to with a camera strapped to my shoulder.

The images in this exhibit were captured 2012-2022 as I walked around the island (very often with folks associated with the Robert Floyd Gallery and Learning Center) from Central Park, to the High Line, Battery Park, The Seaport, the magnificent Brooklyn Bridge… and beyond to city streets.

I love New York: The City brims with color and light. Their combined energy meanders about everywhere, flows through people, public art, dancers on the High Line, or a shadow boxer in Central Park … a young man who — incredibly — lined people up and made a gymnast’s leap over their bent bodies. Yep, that’s New York.

Two quotations guide my photographic vision. E.M. Forster's epigraph in Howard's End: “Only connect … Live in fragments no longer. Only connect.”