NEW YORK, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. is presenting ONLY THE BEST! This deliberative group exhibition runs from 7 February – 28 February 2019.

As soon as you walk in, what seems like a particularly melodious cacophony of photographs, gives way to a configuration that takes the spectator through them organically. Each artist’s unparalleled point of view comes through.

Part of this season's exploration of thematic approaches to collecting, ONLY THE BEST! highlights new or unexhibited pieces by gallery artists, and takes its name from the wonderful Baron Von Fancy piece that both announces and critiques the exhibition.

There are certain qualities unique to photography, and each of these artists is addressing one if not more. Fred Cray uses the photographic materials to confound and to repeat elements. This piece is literally collaged, with a cutout moon placed adjacent to the original print. Both hover over a silhouetted dog, David Brandon Geeting continues his still lifes that look like collages, but aren't. S.B. Walker's contribution is a landscape that persists in appearing like something else. These are qualities that make photography particularly enticing, appealing, and different from other art.

Part of the exhibition nods to one of photography's great tropes, the road. Jim Dow's classic GAS station sign is paired with the great Alfred Leslie's watercolor, Route 91, Outside Springfield, a piece which evokes photographic vision of the highway. Pure vivid color is Hanno Otten’s language. This elegantly composed photogram continues his visual discourse on the nature of color, yet continues the thematic strand of the other pieces.

Creating a coherent collection does not mean an adherence to one subject or one medium vision. These artists concur in the opinion that the criterion should be only the best!