Bee: Photographs by Rose-Lynn Fisher at Piermont Straus

will be exhibiting Bee, photographs by Rose-Lynn Fisher, from May 5 to July 7.

The opening reception is slated for May 5, from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Press for Fisher:

NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/09/03/129631866/it-s-the-bee-s-knees-no-really 

Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debra-ollivier/worlds-within-worlds-the-_b_785457.html 

Audubon Magazine: http://archive.audubonmagazine.org/books/editorchoice1009.html 

[excerpt from Audubon]
For an exemplary model of the purpose-driven life, home in on a honeybee. Photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher's Bee (Princeton Architectural Press, 128 pages, paperback, $19.95) will guide you on the journey. Using a scanning electron microscope, Fisher examines the insect's anatomical minutiae, beginning with its antennae-sensory organs that not only smell, taste, and hear but that also detect changes in other physical phenomena, such as temperature. She ends with its two pairs of wings, which create a bee's telltale buzz as they beat up to 230 times a second, warming the hive. Each cross section, gradated in gray, appears as an abstract or interpretive piece of art but is really an architectural marvel of form exquisitely fitting function. What look like tapered thorny petals belching unraveling yarn, for instance, are actually organs that help create the airtight chamber of the bee's proboscis, responsible for drawing up nectar, honey, and water, and for transferring food to hive mates. Indeed, theirs "is a peaceful society whose industries benefit life," writes Fisher. In bees she sees inspiration for us. "How can we emulate their example of harmlessness and beauty?"-Julie Leibach