Deep artistic kinships grow when common visual principles bridge and dissolve cultural differences. Teri is a gay woman from Asheville, North Carolina, a U.S. Air Force veteran, MBA, and a retired corporate executive. Alan is a Jewish man from Princeton, New Jersey, a design architect, and a former university professor. Teri explores diverse ‘underground’ cultures with caring reverence – placing people center stage. Alan seeks abstraction in the city and in physical things – bringing background to foreground. While each picture depicts a different aspect of humanity, in PAIRS their synergy derives from artistic kinship principles – composition, color, pattern, texture, and gesture – transcending the diversity of photographs and backgrounds.
