"Black Pine" is by Michael Jensen.

Photo show emphasizes
youthful perspectives

Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu is the last stop for a touring photo exhibition called "Perspectives," featuring the work of three up-and-coming New York City-based artists.

Previously featured in six other Emporio Armani boutiques throughout the United States, the exhibition is a collaboration with Gen Art, a leading national non-profit arts organization dedicated to promoting and showcasing emerging visual artists, fashion designers and filmmakers.

The three featured photographers are Michele Asselin, Michael Jensen and Matthew Tischler.

Tischler has stated that he creates abstract images by using various filters over his camera lens, such as netting, screens, scrims and paper, "thereby creating abstract canvases on which hazy scenes are 'painted.' "

Michele Asselin's "1:40 Sunday."

Asselin, who used to be a photojournalist for the Associated Press in the Middle East, documents a constant study of body language, tilting her camera and using a slower shutter speed to catch her subjects in blurred motion.

Jensen brings a naturalist's touch to a contemporary aesthetic. He boldly combines laser prints of natural settings mixed with resin and pigment and layered onto either aluminum or stainless steel to suggest the clash and coexistence of nature and technology.

The works of art are available for purchase through Gen Art's website at www.genart.org.

"Untitled #1" by Matthew Tischler,

'Perspectives' >> On display: Gen Art at Emporio Armani, Ala Moana Center, third floor >> Opening reception: 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday >> Hours: Exhibition runs through May 1, viewable during the store's business hours

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