"Thomas Allen's color photographs, also at Toale, are witty and laugh-outloud funny. In contrast to Martin's oeuvre, they have the depth of a penny. Even so, they're so clever and beautifully printed, they're hard not to love. Allen takes dime-store novels, slices out pieces of their illustrated covers, and bends those slivers into three-dimensional action. For instance, ''Stacked" has a woman wearing only a blanket and a come-hither look reclining atop a stack of paperbacks. In ''Bookend," the slain cowboy from the cover of one book sprawls on the ground before the gunslinger bent from the cover of another. It's pulp fiction, reinvigorated." Boston Globe

Foley Gallery specializes in the representation of contemporary artists who work with photography, painting, sculpture and works on paper. Michael Foley opened Foley Gallery in the fall of 2004 after several years of working with notable photography galleries including Fraenkel Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery and Yancey Richardson Gallery. He is on the faculty of Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts where he teaches and lectures on issues in contemporary photography. For further information contact www.foleygallery.com

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