Skylight Gallery is pleased to announce its exhibition of Charles Johnstone’s Route 22 series of photographs.
Route 22 is a 341-mile state highway that runs north from the Bronx in New York City to just shy of the Canadian border. Over the past five years, Charles Johnstone has traveled—and photographed—Route 22 along its entirety, as it navigates through congested city blocks, traverses suburban enclaves, rolls past horse and dairy farms, skirts the eastern edge of the Adirondack Mountains, and meanders near the shores of Lake Champlain. Rather than depict sweeping vistas or bucolic landscapes, the twelve images on view at Skylight Gallery focus on individual structures that Johnstone discovered along this primarily rural, two-lane road. (more…)