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DBFA Invites You To
RSVP To New York Photographer Holly Gordon’s Live Chat

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Demystifying Photo-Liminalism:
Insight into the Evolution of this Creative Process

April 14, 2025 AT 6:00 PM ET

Join us as holly explores and shares her inspiration and artistic practice

Water Music Series

Gordon, Holly, Water Music Series #4988
As featured at Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond Exhibition at Southampton Arts Center, 2022

Gordon introduced the term photo-liminalism, representing her creative journey with technology over nearly four decades. The word “liminal” refers to a state of transition, where established norms are in flux and the new order has yet to emerge.

In 2012 Gordon likened her current creative process to a Pinkham Ryer inchworm suspended in space with no solid ground beneath her. Her work is layered and complex, defying easy classification or definition. It evolves organically, much like the methodical process of painting. Through all this time she has worked to humanize technology. She is part of the twenty-first-century international art / social movement known as Techspressionism, where artists are exploring innovative ways to use technology in their work.

Drawing on her deep knowledge of art and art history, Gordon blends traditional wet-darkroom techniques with the flexibility of digital darkroom methods.

Each image begins as a photographic file, which serves as a foundational base. From there, Holly layers the image, building it up like a painting created through glazes and washes. Although there is no rigid plan, her rich artistic experience shapes the outcome of each piece.

Inspired by Long Island’s artistic legacy, Gordon’s work aims to create something original rather than mimic existing forms. By pushing photography beyond traditional limits, she may be paving the way for a new chapter in the evolution of art.

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Art Rep Denise Bibro and Holly Gordon to speak at Molloy University Exhibition Reception for Parallel Perspectives

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Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC, is pleased to announce Holly Gordon’s exhibition at the Kellenberg Hall Art Gallery of Molloy University. This special exhibition highlights Holly Gordon’s collaboration with Long Island artist Ward Hooper and the culmination of their work which resulted in the publication of a book “Parallel Perspectives : The Brush/ Lens Collaboration.”

The exhibition will showcase several pairs of works comprised of images conceptualized by each artist when they visited the same places. This project displays the ways in which artists can and do pair up to work in symbiosis. Gordon and Hopper’s collaboration continues a long tradition of Long Island coupled artists creating and experiencing art using this place as an incubator for creativity. Among these partnerships are those of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, Elaine and Willem De Kooning, Helen Torr and Arthur Dove. Gordon’s pioneering of photo-liminalism combined with the solid traditional underpinnings of Ward’s painting process brings 20th century historical phenomena to the 21st century.

Kellenberg Hall Art Gallery of Molloy University is located at 1000 Hempstead Avenue, Rockville Centre, NY. The gallery is open Monday – Friday, 9 AM – 5 PM.

An Artist Reception will be held on December 7th, 3-5 PM. Denise Bibro, Director of Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC, will give an Introduction to Holly Gordon, her collaboration with Ward Hooper, and the history of Long Island Artist. It will be followed by a talk by Holly Gordon herself.

Ms. Gordon is a seasoned and consummate artist, having decades of experience not only as an exhibiting photographer but also an educator. Besides exhibiting extensively in Long Island and New York City she has had numerous shows and speaking engagements throughout the United States.

You can view her work on our Website, Artsy, and 1stDibs.