NEW YORK,NY.- The Everson 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 16, 2011 through September 18, 2011. 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. Folberg writes, “In landscape I see a revelation of how pure spirituality has descended into physical existence… These are the scenes, on the human edge of the cosmos, that I am showing i