"Bob Krasner has spent years training his eye to resist the obvious. While the city screams for attention, his photography work insists on quiet. The result is a photographic practice rooted in restraint, patience, and a near-radical commitment to looking slowly. His latest body of work, unveiled last week and now on view through Feb. 22 at Ki Smith Gallery on the Lower East Side, feels like a controlled exhale inside one of the most visually aggressive environments on earth."
"These photographs emerge from Times Square, yet they refuse its mythology. Krasner's images are not about crowds, scale, or spectacle. They are about isolation within excess. Working from a fixed location, he turns his attention to billboard surfaces, cropping tightly, abstracting relentlessly, and allowing color, light, and geometry to do the heavy lifting. What remains are compositions that feel closer to painting than documentation. Noise collapses. Serenity arrives."
Bob Krasner trains his eye to resist the obvious, favoring quiet and patient looking. His photographic practice emphasizes restraint, patience, and slow observation. The latest body of work, on view through Feb. 22 at Ki Smith Gallery on the Lower East Side, reframes Times Square as a site of isolation within excess. Working from a fixed location, he focuses on billboard surfaces, cropping tightly and abstracting through color, light, and geometry. The resulting compositions read like paintings rather than documentation. Noise collapses and serenity arrives. Shown together for the first time, the images form a cohesive argument for reduction, where color fields replace signage.
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