Spotlight Gallery
Edward Bakst: Hidden Realities
July 4 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Edward Bakst: Hidden Realities
In his first solo exhibition at ASK, internationally acclaimed artist, Edward Bakst, presents two interconnected bodies of photographic work that investigate what lies beyond ordinary perception.
Bakst’s Non-Linear Panoramas Series disrupts conventional photographic perspectives by employing a unique in-camera process that transforms a single viewpoint into simultaneous dimensions of time and space. Created entirely within an iPhone without digital stitching, these images challenge gravity, perspective, and expectations, revealing abstracted realities shaped by emotion, memory, and environmental change.
His Hidden Spaces Series delves into seemingly ordinary objects, textures, and scenes to uncover unexpected worlds concealed within them. Through close observation and digital exploration, Bakst reveals imagined landscapes, microscopic universes, atmospheric forms, and visual phenomena that emerge from the overlooked details of everyday life.
Together, the series invite viewers to contemplate the hidden structures, perceptions, and possibilities that exist beneath the surface of the visible world.
Bakst’s work has been exhibited internationally in New York City, Milan, Barcelona, Seoul, Australia, Qatar, and beyond. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a former Fulbright Specialist, he has also led imagination workshops around the world and held leadership positions at major institutions including Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.