Opening reception, Thursday Feb 5th, 6:00-8:00pm, free
Mark Ruwedel’s new exhibition Onward the Course of Empire opens Thursday at the Yossi Milo Gallery, 525 W. 25th St in New York City. Ruwedel photographs abandoned 19th and 20th century railway lines in The United States and Canada. Ruwedel’s gelatin silver prints bear witness to the grown-over traces of North America’s railway past.
Excellent photographs, but I’m surprised that he’s not really looked at the rock work along the ROW. Some of these create images all of themselves. DVRR, Tecopa and Carson & Colorado, just to name a couple, have stretches that I just have to sit and watch the sun play across. Masonry free to allow drainage, but fitted perfectly to support the roadbed.