Michael Light: Gardiner's Island and Amagansett

The Drawing Room is pleased to announce the opening of Gardiner’s Island and Amagansett, an exhibition of recent photographs by Michael Light. A photographer and bookmaker with longstanding ties to the landscape of Long Island’s East End, Light acknowledges the formative influence of place on his practice. His work has addressed human impact on the landscape and exploration of the cosmos, as well as themes of mapping and geology. This exhibition highlights two series of aerial photographs created in 2016, when Light returned the eastern tip of the Long Island peninsula to explore the personal and ecological significance of its farming history and unique geology of its terminal moraines.

In addition to the panoramic photographs that are hanging in the gallery, two limited edition mammoth artist books, Manchonake / Gardiner’s Island and Town Lane / Promised Land, comprise large archival pigment prints of Gardiner’s Island, East Hampton, Amagansett and Napeague. Each hand bound volume incorporates a sequence of photographs masterfully printed in deeply saturated inks on matte paper. As individuals turn the pages and hover over each spread, their experience mirrors moments and vantage points Light captured while flying his own light aircraft at 45 miles an hour and as low as 500 feet above the landscape.

See below for full press release and selected works.