PHOTOGRAPHER RETROSPECTIVE
TINA ZIMMER - 13 years of work
 Creativity lies wherever it chooses and for fine art photographer Tina Zimmer, that means somewhere between Gothic fantasy and sexual angst of a somewhat biblical nature. It's blatantly obvious that although by day, she appears to be a mild mannered transplanted Arizona native, here...in the deepest, infernal chasm of NY, she surrenders to a symphony of wonderfully orgasmic creativity.
Tina's images exhibit a decadent purity, rich enough
in color and form content that we could easily view them as dreams...illusions
we keep hidden for fear of being ostracized. The photos, many printed
on archival silver (her new 'secret' series of photos
I was granted the honor of previewing) are haunting yet stimulating.
Her eyes lovingly cradle each as a mother would
a newborn.
The genius of this young, fine art photographer
is in her acceptance of her passion... the absolute
resignation to "shoot through emotion", thus creating
a palette of imagery so blissfully unsettling, it must be seen, and studied
and appreciated.
No doubt although the raw, intimate juxtaposition
of beauty, death and sexuality have an almost primitive nature, her photos
are an exploration of modernity. By forcing her
audience to 'taste the earth', that which is ancient comes to life
in an unbridled presentation of one of the oldest entities we know....the
human form.
N. Adrian Adams
2008 --"Retrospective" (13 years of work), solo show at Artland. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC.
Sept. 2005--"Luscious" Art Exhibition at Mickey's Blue Room. Group
show featuring portraits of bad girls, drag queens, androgenous types
and hustler boys. Tina included photos from her "Bad Girls" series. East
Village, NYC
2005--Tina's "Bad Girls" series. Joint show with Fred Berger
(Publisher of Propaganda Magazine) at Mother Flawless Sabrina's art studio,
NYC
2004--"Magik" series in "The Gifts of Magi" group art show. Shown at the Silver Whale Gallery in the East Village, NYC
2003--"Magik" series shown at Maxwell's group show in Hoboken, NJ
2003--Group show "Altered" at I Gallery in NYC
2002--Tom of Finland fair, NYC
2001--Group show "Family" at I Gallery in NYC
2001--Tom of Finland fair, Los Angeles, CA
1999--"Uninhibited" series shown at Amaranth Gallery, NYC
1998--"Succubus" series, group show at Le Bar Bat (part of The New York
International Film & Video Arts Festival in NYC)
1996--"Uninhibited" series, group show at Rebis Gallery in Denver, Colorado
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