Alfa Art Gallery & New Brunswick Art Salon (NBAS) presents “Meet the Artist”, a series in which artists provide detail about their submitted works to our current exhibition, as well as colorful insight to the artists themselves. Alfa Art Gallery & New Brunswick Art Salon (NBAS) presents “Meet the Artist”, a series in which artists provide detail about their submitted works to our current exhibition, as well as colorful insight to the artists themselves.
This interview features Danny Froyen, a Belgian-born violinist and photographer, whose unconventional style of photography reflects that of abstract paintings. He discovered his passion for photography at a young age when he was given his first camera, a Vöiglander. Froyen accomplishes his goal of “raising the ordinary to the extraordinary” by capturing subjects from everyday life and portraying them from a new perspective. The colors and light of nature combine with digitally edited abstract forms to create painterly compositions that invite us to experience Froyen’s vision and full spectrum of emotions.
His recent series, “Decayed to Reclaimed” emphasizes this, by aiming to combine the melancholy of music with the beauty of nature. The experience he gained from his previous exhibitions and the digitalization of cameras made him want to take photography in a different direction. By photographing the little things of everyday life in all its forms, by capturing all the colors and light of nature, by editing his photos in abstract forms, he wants the viewer to experience his full spectrum of emotions. And, experience his work more like that of a painter rather than a photographer.
This marks the beginning of our next season of interviews from artists featured in our photography exhibition: “The Art of Perspective”. Now on display at the Alfa Art Gallery in New Brunswick until March 30th, 2024.