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By Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent | May 31, 2007
The art of attraction: Images explore desire, politics, and advertising

Tanja Alexia Hollander's gorgeous color photographs of Israel, also at Bernard Toale, are serene, endless landscapes. Hollander makes a practice of fuzzing out her horizon line, giving her scenes a velvety, magical feeling. Untitled 64408, Zohar, Israel sets craggy, sandy rock in the foreground fading into a sandstorm. The photo across from it, Untitled 64616, Ein Bokek, Israel,is what you'd see if you stood on that rocky hill: a green sea, folded evenly with waves, drifting into a green sky.

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By Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent | January 21, 2005
Exhibit tracks the trend of mapping out truth and beauty

If every piece of art is a map, the landscape ought to be the most straightforward, but Tanja Alexia Hollander's haunting photographic landscapes, also up at Bernard Toale, lead us into the mystery of ourselves more than they tell us about the world outside. They open out into greatspaces and invite contemplation. Hollander's previous body of work, shooting through windows, suggested a veil between inside and outside; some of those photographs, like the lush translucent ribbons of curtain portrayed in Sarah and Mike's Window, North Yarmouth, Maine, are on view here. But most of the imageshere are endless landscapes, minimalist views receding into a haze, framed in black so as to contain the eternity within. Many of these photos have an unexpected anchor -- a spot you might not see if you didn't peer inclose, or catch it on the periphery. Varkala, Kerala, India shows an expanse of lazy, undulatingblue sea, fuzzing out at the horizon into the white sky. Right in the center of the print there's atiny gray dot; it might be a buoy, or even a distant vessel. That spot, so easily missed, becomes afinite touchstone for the infinity around it.