John Connelly Presents is pleased to announce the premiere of “Nice” a new multi-panel large scale photographic panorama by New York based artist Gerard Maynard. This new artwork continues Maynard’s use of custom technologies, tools and software. He is currently using these tools to produce some of the largest digital photographs that exist to date. Maynard pushes and expands the density in his images by using a unique method that electronically stitches together thousands of individually captured images.

The exhibition of Maynard’s latest image taken form a construction area in a quiet neighborhood in France’s fifth largest city, coincides with the launch of the website http://www.harlem-13-gigapixels.com.

Maynard created the website to showcase an expansive rooftop view of Harlem, New York that he captured in August 2006. The website was necessary to bring the image to the public. The image is so full of information it is not currently printable due to current technical limitations. If it were capable of being printed at 300dpi resolution, it would measure 77 feet long by 13 feet tall. The image and website are being featured in the Autumn 2007 Edition of InterCommunication, a Japanese art theory and criticism publication.

Maynard’s website - http://www.gerardmaynard.org - has other interactive panoramic images created using the same digital process. These images include a photograph of New York City’s World Trade Center site in November 2003, an image of Death Valley in March 2005, and the astonishing unfinished Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona captured in July 2005.