Gallery New World Stages Closes STORM WATCH Today, 4/29

Gallery New World Stages, located at 343 West 49th Street, closes today STORM WATCH: A Photographic Journal of Tornado Alley. This exhibition presents 28 original digital photographs, as well as, storm chase videos and slideshows. Curator Bernard Stote manages the four-person show.

“Mark J. Dempsey, Nadia Elfarnawani, William Reid, and Andy Williams have captured dramatic storm landscapes of Tornados, Lightening, Clouds and Sky,” said Stote, a professional New York based artist and arts manager for New World Stages. Continued Stote, “The aim of this exhibition is to present four viewpoints of chase accounts and document the breathtaking severe weather phenomena by photographic journalist.”

The images on exhibit are a digital record from 2008 – 2011, during which the four storm chasers met on their travels with Tempest Tours. The area on tour known as Tornado Alley is a informal and popular media term that refers to where tornadoes are most common in the United States. The area between the Rocky Mountains and Appalachian Mountains is usually associated with this terminology.

GALLERY NEW WORLD STAGES is a 150 linear foot exhibition space on two floors of the arts complex. Bernard Stote and Hanging Art Organization manage the gallery space. www.hangingart.org. Gallery New World Stages 343 West 49th Street New York, NY 10019 Gallery Hours: MON-SUN 10-6

NEW WORLD STAGES is the renowned performing arts complex in the heart of the theatre district. Constructed on the site of lively Worldwide Plaza, it has five theatres ranging in size from 199 to 499 seats complemented by thousands of square feet dedicated to audience and artist services. New World Stages is part of Stage Entertainment, the international entertainment group that produces live entertainment for an international audience. www.newworldstages.com