Marc Reed and Alla Podolsky are the featured artists this July at The Artists' Gallery in Lambertville, NJ.

Reed, who typically exhibits his oil paintings, will be exhibiting selections from his photographic body of work.

"I've been taking photographs for years" says Reed. "Each winter for the last three years I chose a different abandoned location to document. So I decided to highlight my favorite pieces."

Reed will be exhibiting photographs from various locations including an abandoned steel mill, paper mill and an abandoned mental institution he documented over winter 2008. But it's not just photographs that Reed was interested in at these locations.

"In addition to the photography, I have produced and directed 3 short films that document these locations. So, the photos are shots I took while working on the films" says Reed

The films, which will be available on DVD at the gallery, use experimental photography techniques as well as music donated by independent musicians to help portray the feel of the abandoned spaces.

"For me" says Reed, "House of Dreams is a reference to these places, once bustling with life, but now engaged in a long sleep and filling visitors' heads with dreams of what was."

For Alla Podolsky, House of Dreams is about the shape and structure of memory. The beauty of it is manifested by brightness and color, and its sadness comes in form of distorted and often broken angles and muted shadows. The paintings are juxtapositions of old and new, remembered and lost, romanticized and real, reflected and direct, internal and external, seen and perceived.

The work is very personal, but, hopefully, universal in that we all revisit the past, always looking at it from different angles our ever changing perspectives provide. We all see old things with new eyes and take walks in our private house of dreams.