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A Gift of 47 Photographs by Neil Folberg to the Everson Museum of Art

artwork: Neil Folberg, American (b. 1950) - "Olive Tree", 1997 - Toned silver gelatin print, 11 5/8 x 15 5/8 inches - Courtesy of The Everson Museum of Art


Syracuse,NY – The Everson Museum of Art recently received a gift of 47 black-and-white photographs by Neil Folberg entitled Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land. Celestial Nights is a stunning portfolio of nocturnal landscapes and star-filled skies set in ancient ruins found in the Middle East. A selection of these photographs are exhibited at the Everson from July 16th through September 18th. The artist skillfully captures a spectacular world of nocturnal landscapes in Israel and the Sinai where the horizon is not always definitive. The earth and heavens are mingled in this series of arresting images, which to Folberg represents a blurred division between present and eternity, substance and spirit, and knowledge and imagination.