Andrea Baldeck
“Presence Passing”
December 13 – 31, 2008
Abington Art Center will exhibit a selection of photographs from Andrea Baldeck’s “Presence Passing” series. In “Presence Passing,” Baldeck explores the play of light and shadows, and the ideas of decay and impermanence, found in structures and objects that are left behind. In her artist’s essay, Baldeck explains “The spirit of this collection is one of evocation, not documentation. It invites one to conjure meanings from the images, to wonder what each of us will leave behind, as presence passes and absence overtakes.”
“J. Stanley Adams Hardware, Painter, VA”
Andrea Baldeck’s childhood interest in photography pervaded years of musical study at Vassar, medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, and practice as an internist and anesthesiologist. On medical trips to Haiti and Grenada, her camera and stethoscope occupied the same bag.
In the early 1990’s she left the operating room for the darkroom, to work as a fine-art photographer in black and white. During the following decade, her portfolio grew to accommodate portraiture, still life, and landscapes. Andrea Baldeck has exhibited her photographs in the U.S. and abroad. Her images are found in museums and private collections. More information about Baldeck’s work can be found at her website.
A new exhibit and book, tentatively titled “Buddhist Himalaya,” will debut in late fall of 2008, the culmination of multiple journeys in the mountains of Asia from Ladakh to eastern Tibet. Other ongoing work includes a series on growth and decay in the botanical world, a collaboration with her husband, poet William Hollis. Andrea is a resident of Philadelphia and Blue Bell.
