LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Kopeikin Gallery presents their first exhibition with New York based artist Gail Albert-Halaban whose new exhibition is titled Paris Views. In this series of work Albert-Halaban walks the line of voyeurism by exploring the fragile barrier between what is public and what is private and how either can lead to a sense of loneliness or community. The exhibition opens Saturday September 12th with a reception with the artist from 6:00- 8:00 pm and runs through October 17th. This exhibition is free and open to the public.

‘Paris Views’ is a follow up to Albert-Halaban’s “Out My Window’ – a conceptually similar series shot in New York City in 2009. These projects invite the viewer to see inside and outside at the same time. The glass panes of a window somehow become even more transparent with the blending of two worlds. The outside world whizzes by, as the inside seems immune to the passage of time. Loneliness is examined simultaneously through multiple windows – a man sits in solitude on his bed, a woman alone at her desk, a child practices her wind instrument solo - leading to a sense of relation among them all. With Albert Halaban’s staging of this project, strangers become neighbors – individuals form
a community.

Inspiration for this project came from sleepless nights when she would peer through her own window, searching through the darkness for a sign of life from her neighbors to break her solitude. What followed was then realization of how common it is for people to sneak peaks into one another’s personal spaces.

Gail Albert-Halaban was born in Washington D.C. and currently resides in New York City. She is busy editorially as well as fine art photographer whose work has been published in the New York Times, Le Monde, Huffington Post, The Guardian, Aperture, The Examiner, New York Times Magazine, the Herald Scotland, among others.

Albert-Halaban’s photographs have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States and Europe. Albert-Halaban’s work was presented in various international solo and group exhibitions. She is the recipient of a number of awards including the Sony World Photography Awards (top ten shortlist), Phase One: Sponsorship of Remote Photography Project, Lucie Award IPA (Architecture City Scapes) and Design Trust for Public Space (Vanishing Views).

“What one can see in sunlight is always less interesting than what happens behind a pane of glass” - Baudelaire