View from a moving train

Seattle to San Francisco McKay Imaging Studio and Gallery in Red Bank is hosting an exhibit by photographer Andi Monick.

"TRANSITion: Scenes From a Moving Train" will open Friday.

An Opening Reception will be held 7-10 p.m. at the gallery, located on the second floor of 12 Monmouth St. in Red Bank. The show will run through Nov. 26.

The exhibit is a photographic meditation on the artist's travels and shows how form and color can transport the viewer to a place in the artist's mind.

In an artist statement, Monick explains that all of the images in the show were taken through the window of a moving train and consequently focus on "the idea of place rather than the place itself."

"On a moving train ... you are constantly in transition, always nowhere and so also everywhere, in between one place and the next. When you are moving, you can never say where you are, that truth is changed as soon as it's been said.

"And so it is in this context that I sought to capture these places in between, between dream and reality or reality and memory, the intangible moment when things are becoming clear or beginning to fade."

Seattle to San Francisco Monick studied photography at Brookdale Community College and has exhibited locally. She is a photographer for the Monmouth County Parks System.

Gallery hours are Wednesday and Thursday, 1-7 p.m., or by appointment. For information, call (732) 842-2272 or visit www.mckayimaging.com.