Cloisters, New York
Medium
archival inkjet print
Dimensions
16 x 24"
Cost
$500
Description
This image is from a series of gardens and parks I continue to photograph . I manipulate the images in a number of programs including Photoshop and a plug-in called NIK and I often use an infrared camera. In order to represent what I experience when I visit these sites I look for the important spaces and their effect on the soul. I want these images of gardens to evoke the dream worlds they seem to manifest. The Cloisters is one of my favorite destinations in Manhattan. I will make it a point to take a bus from 57th and Madison all the way up to 110th street, then to upper Broadway and then to Washington Heights. It takes awhile and as a photographer I am never bored on the trip seeing the many neighborhoods and how they change. It prepares me for the solitude and utter beauty of the Cloisters, the medieval gardens and the unusual spaces both inside and out of the museum. Images of gardens reflect their order, form, beauty and specific atmosphere.
About this Artist
Gary Cardot
Gary Cardot is a graduate of Ohio University and the University of Massachusetts where he received bachelors and master’s degrees in history. After teaching history and working as a director of the arts program at the Martin Luther King Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, he studied photography at the California Institute of the Arts and graduated with an MFA in art from CalArts in 1990. He taught photography and art history as an assistant professor at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania from 1990 to 2024. He is currently an independent scholar and finishing a book on the history of photographic postcards of Erie and an interpretation of their contents with an emphasis on urban design. He has exhibited in galleries and museums nationally, both juried and invitational shows, and was awarded a Mid-Atlantic Arts grant to document architecture in Buffalo, New York. He has worked in landscape studies, architectural photography, and still lifes.
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