Hide and Seek

A collection of studio photography by Scott Weingarten.

I am very happy to announce the opening of our September 2013 show with Photographer Scott Weingarten Saturday September 7th, from 7-10 PM, at Gallery 364. Join us to view Scott's latest work, mingle with other artists, enjoy food & drink.

This event is free, but we will not turn away donations which help support our wonderful shows!!
We hope to see you all here for another exciting year!!!

Thank You,
Georgine Benvenuto, Founder & Director
Gallery 364 



Introducing Scott Weingarten

 Scott M. Weingarten
 Fine At Photographer/Artist/Banker


Scott Weingarten was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 22, 1957. He has had numerous gallery shows in the
New York City area including Fountain Art Fair in Miami, Florida. He has also had shows on Long Island and in the dumbo area in downtown Brooklyn. His current work is motivated by his passion for photographing people in various situations. Scott's work consists on mainly black and white photographs that are emotional and enticing to
the soul and imagination.

 Scott is basically self taught and has studied with a mentor for several years learning different techniques including editing, printing and photoshop methods. He has an extensive art background including drawing and Fashion Illustration. Scott has a degree in Fashion Illustration from F.I.T. and a fine art degree from Kingsborough Community College.

He has recently been working with photographing models for the past two years in various situations using different lighting techniques to get the most creative effect possible. Scott has done unusual portraits and abstracting models to give his work more self expression.

He continues to work in mostly 17"x 22" format or larger using his Canon EOS 5D digital camera. Printing is done on an epson 3880 printer.

Scott has won honorable mention at 364 Gallery in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and has had several write ups in Gallery and Studio Magazine.

HORROR VACUI PART 2: 

Photographs by Kathy Libraty

OPENING PARTY APRIL 6th, 2013     7-10PM

I am very happy to announce the opening of our April 2013 show with Photographer Kathy Libraty this Saturday April 6th From 7-10PM, at Gallery 364. Join us to view Kathy's latest work, mingle with other artists, enjoy food & drink and I understand we have a surprise musical guest!! More info to come in the next two days. You can join our event on Facebook, Gallery 364. This event is free, but we will not turn away donations which help support our wonderful shows!! We hope to see you all here for another exciting year!!!

Thank You,
Georgine Benvenuto, Founder & Director
Gallery 364 




Introducing Kathy Libraty

As a visual artist, I have always enjoyed the juxtaposition of varying elements in my work. As I was photographing different locations of graffiti art and wall murals throughout Brooklyn and Long Island City, it occurred to me that this is a “people’s art” and that our urban landscape is created by many varying contributors. Torn posters providing segments of faces with torn paper edges contrasted with brick walls or wooden construction barricades, graffiti, spray painted graphics and nonsense along with actual architectural elements all commingle into an ever-changing visual smorgasbord of our human artistic psyche. As street artists come upon these works they are sometimes inspired to add or detract by contributing some extra elements or actually vandalizing the images—thus they become works in progress in an ever-shifting urban environment.

In many of the images presented here, I have employed my lovely daughter and muse, Elisa Renee, to pose and add a human context to the images. She has generously contributed her time and dramatic talent to enhance my photographic visions. A musical artist in her own right (ElisaLovelie.com), Elisa has that elusive charisma, charm and humor that jumps out of the photographs and demands your full attention. Indeed she is, in many ways, the co-author of the works in which she appears and deserves full recognition and praise for her unique contribution! At times, I have also been fortunate to capture passersby who willingly or unwittingly became a part of my compositions.

But getting back to my opening statement about the juxtaposition of varying elements, I have also taken the artistic license to alter the images by adding other photographic images by compositing them in Photoshop. Thus, in my own way, I have added to the visual lexicon of the urban landscape—even if the images only exist as unique works in these photographic prints.

This exhibit represents the continuation of the project originally exhibited at Starbucks in August of last year.
I am also going to include many smaller framed images of varying other photographic subjects that I have recently processed through Instagram. It promises to be a visually exciting and fun filled night!