QUEENS, NY.- The New York Hall of Science announces October Waves, an exhibition of thirty large-scale seascapes by Sandra Gottlieb from September 1, 2015 – October 31, 2015 in the museum’s LeCroy and Ramp Galleries. October Waves is a photographic exploration by Sandra Gottlieb, a remarkably inventive and prolific artist, and is her sixth series of seascapes photographed in Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York in the last 15 years. This most recent series is a documentation of the 2013 hurricane season when the sea and swells were caught up in a rough and tumble drama.

Gottlieb’s solo exhibitions include the Alden B. Dow Museum of Art and Science, Midland, MI; Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph’s, MI; Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon, IL; The Ormond Memorial Art Museum, Ormond Beach, FL; Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, GA; Robert Ferst Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA; Danville Museum of Fine Art & History, Danville, VA; Ashtabula Arts Center, Ashtabula, OH; an upcoming exhibition at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL in January 2016; and the Chicago Academy of Sciences’ Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (to be announced).

“Sandra Gottlieb’s camera confronts the cascading waves with results as profound as they are beautiful and compelling. Creating meditations in time, her lens dissects a temporal curve, catching the waves with each frame as they play like actors upon a stage. Her interests envelop both the conceptual and the romantic in a wondrous duality . . . Her mastery of the medium allows her vision to reverberate between the two, making her photographs rich material for consideration while simultaneously offering the oceanic images up to the viewer’s simple and sensual enjoyment.” --Phil Tarley

Critic Dominique Nahas observes, “Gottlieb immerses herself and her viewers into what might be called the dramaturgy of the Wave, its Sturm und Drang. October Waves gives us not only the local color, so to speak, of Rockaway Beach, it also offers the viewer what appears to be thirty different character studies or individual portraits of waves.”