It is with great pleasure that The New Haven Lawn Club announces One Source, black and white paintings by Anne Doris-Eisner and photography by Roy Money, on view from July 16 through September 8, with an opening reception on Thursday, July 16 from 5pm to 7pm. These two artists use the same source, the natural world, in their individual ways to reveal the interconnectedness of all being.  
 
Photographer Roy Money states, “When I describe myself as a nature photographer I don’t think of nature as a world apart from humans, but one that is all-inclusive. We are inescapably embedded in that ostensibly other realm, and our own distinctive “human nature” is inconceivable without it. Photographing affords me a way of affirming and exploring my place in the single world we humans share with all manner of animate and inanimate matter.”
 
“Some time ago stone surfaces began to appear in my exposures and at first I thought it curious.  However I eventually became more attentive to the mystery of the forms and texture and color.  Stone began to intrigue me, inert but nonetheless impermanent like everything else, with an almost imperceptible accretion and abrasion recording an enigmatic history, one framed by powerful geologic forces of a different time scale than our own. It evokes for me the expanse of what is unknown that predates us and will survive us, and yet is insistently present as palpable matter. Stone is somehow the epitome of “dead matter”, not alive in any conventional sense and yet it is formed of elements that produced life as we know it, and to which we all eventually return,” Money adds.
 
Painter Anne Doris-Eisner states, “Living with acute awareness of the natural world has been a blessing.  I have found inner strength by observing the resilience and transformative beauty of the land and all that grows from it as it moves through its life cycle.  What is struck down, crushed, cut and splintered may become irreversibly changed, but yet still remains a part of this world. I have sought through my art to express the divine power and mysterious force of life.  That which should have been destroyed instead is able to transform and rebuild, albeit into something new. Having faced the death of my child, I liken my survival to that of a tree struck by lightning which still puts out new branches or to the water that cuts through mountains and finds its way to continue moving forward.  I, too, continue to find a way to live on, though irreversibly changed. Using unique geological formations and forms in nature, I draw parallels between the human experience and the natural world.  Resilience, defiance, reverence are all symbolically represented in my work.”
 
Doris-Eisner adds, “Using a variety of materials, including graphite, paints, and inks on paper, I forcefully expresses my emotions on the paper’s surface, pushing against the opposing strength of a wall, floor or table. I draw, scrape, pour, carve, twist and scumble media with various objects, many of which are found in nature. I am a calligrapher and lover of line and each mark has meaning and becomes imbued with my energy and movement. Like a dancer, my hands and body move with the rhythms created by each unique mark. The experience of art-making becomes a physically demanding experience yet also deeply fulfilling.”

One Source is open to the public from 9am to 5pm every day at The New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Avenue in New Haven.

For more information, please visit annedoriseisner.com and roymoney.com.