"For the last five years I've photographed mostly trees. I used to think that as a subject they were too easy, sitting ducks. Spending time with some special ones and looking very hard I began to feel their power. I went to the Arnold Arboretum in Boston and began to fill my ground glass with Gingko trees ...Their stillness and poise fill my spirit just standing among them."
Robert Klein Gallery is pleased to present "Ginkgo", a solo exhibition of new work by renowned photographer Nicholas Nixon, opening on Saturday October 26, from 3-5pm - 38 Newbury Street, Boston. Known for his deeply intimate and humanistic work, Nixon turns his lens toward the natural world in this latest body of work, focusing on the quiet, majestic and almost healing presence of trees. The exhibition invites viewers to experience the beauty, resilience, and complexity of trees in and around Boston, captured with Nixon's signature precision and sensitivity over the last five years. This exhibition also marks the first time Nixon has exhibited digitally captured and printed photographs alongside his signature 8x10" large format silver gelatin prints.
Best known for his Brown Sisters series (1975-2022) and for his candid portrayals of people and places, Nick Nixon's exploration of trees offers a new perspective on his approach to time, life cycles, and impermanence. These large-format photographs capture the nuanced textures, light, and intricate details of trees in all their forms-solid, delicate, vibrant, and weathered.
"After reading Peter Wohlleben's 'The Hidden Lives of Trees', I was very moved by evidence of trees communicating and healing and protecting one another that I began to have have a mystical feeling about them, that they are ancient observers which possess the ease and grace that we strive for in our lives. Silent witnesses to our failing efforts, to our folly," Nixon says.
