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Amy Sands at Rourke Art Museum
“I am interested in the interaction of color, space and memory – both from a perspective of the artist’s process as well as from the viewer’s active interaction with a finished piece. My art originates in my interest of the day-to-day experiences influenced by color, pattern and space, and how this is recorded in memory.…
Read MorePaul Raphaelson: Sweet Ruin at Front Room Gallery in NYC
Front Room Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of photographs by Paul Raphaelson, entitled “Sweet Ruin”. Featuring photographs taken at the site of Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery, Raphaelson’s images chronicle the final state of the once bustling industrial complex before its dismantling and demolition. Sweet Ruin Bin Distributor © Paul Raphaelson Photography Sweet Ruin…
Read MoreHeidi Jensen at Ball State University
Sit Comfortably in a Darkened Room and Think of Nothing: Recent Drawings by Heidi Jensen In Claude Cahun’s monologue “Helen the Rebel”, the narrative of Helen of Troy is reimagined and retold. Rather than existing as a passive object of desire, Cahun’s Helen collaborates with her husband Menelaus to orchestrate the Trojan War. Her renowned…
Read MoreEugene Richards: The Run-On of Time at George Eastman Museum
For more than forty years, photographer Eugene Richards has explored complicated subjects such as racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. Until now, his work has been known primarily through international news and media outlets, for which he created images on…
Read MoreAmy Rockett-Todd “MANUS : ab.sum”
The exhibition “MANUS : ab.sum” is rendered using the 19th Century photographic process known as Wet Plate Collodion. The work deals with hand-made attributes of creating photographic images of our environment … the building up, the habitation, and the abandonment of it … and of nature reclaiming its place. Drawing from a history of past…
Read MoreThe Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, considered the father of modern neuroscience, was also an exceptional artist. He drew the brain in a way that provided a clarity exceeding that achieved by photographs. Combining scientific and artistic skills to produce drawings with extraordinary scientific and aesthetic qualities, his theory that the brain is composed of individual cells…
Read MoreKAT CHAMBERLIN SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW
SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2017 SPRING/BREAK Art Show is NYC’s curator-driven art fair. Participants are selected through vetted applications and provided a central theme for the art fair. The unique venues are donated to the curators and artists for each curatorial project to be realized during a major international arts week. Kat Chamberlin’s exhibit was in…
Read MoreLynette McCarthy “Life after Death” MFA exhibition
This series provides an extended look at the physical and psychological shifts that occur when negotiating the role of widower. My work chronicles one of the eldest members of my family, documenting the everyday while providing a critique on the quiet and isolating conditions of his current stage of life. I am primarily concerned with…
Read MoreWE CAN MAKE IT The Prints of Corita Kent
Corita Kent was a fine art printmaker and educator. In her teaching and her art, Corita Kent emphasized the importance of words. Individual letters were used as sources for shape and form, and graphically rearranged to make a visual impact. The content of the words was of equal importance. She drew inspiration from poetry, literature…
Read More“Beauty and the Beast: Herman Mhire”
The College of the Arts will honor the SPARK Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Herman Mhire, with an exhibition of 80 of his framed photographs. The exhibit opens March 5 and continues through March 24, 2017 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Herman Mhire “Green Leaves Falling” – 7 x 5 Herman Mhire “Demon 5” -…
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