RKG × SEA-DAR: The Project Space

We are proud to introduce RKG × SEA-DAR: The Project Space, a new gallery located within our 4,500 sq. ft. headquarters in Boston’s SoWa Arts District. In collaboration with Robert Klein Gallery, The Project Space creates an important new home for fine art. Combining Sea-Dar Construction’s expertise in high-end residential construction with RKG’s decades-long commitment to photography, The Project Space will host exhibitions and gatherings designed to foster conversation, connection, and a greater appreciation for fine art within Boston’s creative community.

URBAN LEGENDS: A Global Perspective

RKG x SEA-DAR The Project Space presents URBAN LEGENDS: A Global Perspective, a major four-month exhibition exploring the architecture, density, history, and transformation of cities through the aerial photography of Jeffrey Milstein and works by a selection of renowned photographers, including Tom Baril, Peter Bialobrzeski, Jeff Brouws, Edward Burtynsky, Lois Conner, Laura McPhee, Thomas Ruff, Arne Svenson, Michael Wolf, and Yang Yongliang.

Milstein’s distinctive aerial photographs form the foundation of the exhibition, capturing cities including New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Paris, London, and Rome from striking vantage points above. Viewed from the air, familiar urban environments become intricate compositions of architecture, infrastructure, geometry, and human activity. Streets form networks, buildings create patterns, and waterways, bridges, and transportation systems reveal relationships that are often difficult to perceive from the ground.

The exhibition expands this perspective through complementary approaches to the urban landscape. From Michael Wolf’s densely layered Hong Kong architecture and Peter Bialobrzeski’s observations of rapidly changing cities to Laura McPhee’s views of Kolkata, Tom Baril’s studies of New York architecture, Edward Burtynsky’s aerial photographs of urban renewal in Shanghai, and Yang Yongliang’s imagined futuristic landscapes, the works offer distinct perspectives on the ways cities evolve and are experienced.

The title URBAN LEGENDS draws on two meanings of the word legend: a story associated with a place and, in cartography, the key that explains a map’s symbols and patterns. Throughout the exhibition, photography becomes a way of decoding the urban landscape, revealing how architecture, history, infrastructure, and human activity shape the character of a city. By shifting between aerial views, street-level perspectives, and imagined environments, the works invite viewers to reconsider familiar places and discover new ways of seeing the modern city.