NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of recent work by Alice Attie is on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from September 18 - October 18, 2014. Proximities presents twelve photographs and ten drawings from 2011 – 2014. Known predominantly for her poems and drawings, the exhibition represents a rare showing of Attie’s photography.

Intimate views of meadows form the basis of Attie’s series of photographs started four years ago in Iceland. Using a 1937 Rolleiflex camera that belonged to her father, Attie has since traversed fields in New Hampshire, upstate New York, and Central Park to ponder nature as visual poetry. Weeds, wildflowers, trees, grass, and leaves fill her lens and immerse the viewer.

“I feel that the camera inspires a deeper sense of self,” says Attie. “On a very visceral level, it leads me to imagine my own absence in a sublime world.”

Attie’s ink drawings focus on the miniscule, and explore the territory and intersection between writing and drawing. Engaging repetition, rhythm, and gradual change, she allows tiny words, figures, numbers, and images to accrue and grow on the paper. Whether presenting a landscape of numbers or a language that is not real, she is inspired to trespass over a threshold where language becomes something visual.

Alice Attie is a visual artist and published poet residing in New York City. Her photographs and works on paper are in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Jewish Museum, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York; The Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, among others.