2008 Fall Exhibitions
Material Color
October 5, 2008 - January 31, 2009
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Walter Chandoha:1940's New York
November 23, 2008 - January 31, 2009
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Walter Chandoha : 1940s New York
Walter Chandoha has had a long and successful career as a freelance photographer specializing in horticulture and animals. His photographs have appeared on over three hundred magazine covers and in thousands of advertisements; his illustrated articles on animals and gardens have been published in numerous books and magazines. He is the author or illustrator of twenty-six books, including How to Shoot and Sell Animal Photos.
The vintage black and white photographs in this exhibition were taken while Chandoha was a student at New York University's Stern School of Business in the late 1940s. Equipped with an inquiring eye, a keen sense of observation and a Rolleiflex camera, the young photographer wandered the city streets in search of a subject. The resulting photographs captured the changing scale and pace of New York City in the years following World War II. Many of these pictures showcase people moving through the city--on foot, in automobiles, trains and even boats. Some of them depict quiet moments of solitude in the midst of hustle and bustle. All of Chandoha's photographs provide a nostalgic glimpse of New York in the 1940s and offer new perspectives on the city we see today.
Material Color
Peter Fox, detail Royaume, 2008
Leslie Wayne, Mondo Mondo, 2008
Omar Chacon, Untitled Painting #177, 2008
Material Color showcases some of the innovative ways artists are handling paint today. The twenty artists in this exhibition apply oil, acrylic, encaustic and other pigments to a variety of surfaces using conventional, as well as unexpected methods. With eye droppers, plastic bottles, turkey basters, palette knives (and sometimes even brushes,) they drip, splash, pour, squeeze, squirt and layer their colors, balancing chance and discipline. Several of them peel off dried paint from one surface and transfer it to another, while others model and mold pigment into freestanding three-dimensional shapes. All of these techniques result in colorful, voluptuous surfaces that seduce our eyes and almost beg to be touched. With their layered surfaces or heavy impasto, the works in Material Color blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture, and seem to transform themselves into three-dimensional objects.
Participating artists are: Cecilia Biagini, Alana Bograd, Ivana Brenner, Omar Chacon, Carlos Estrada-Vega, Peter Fox, Vincent Hamel, Gregg Hill, Wil Jansen, Vadim Katznelson, Lori Kirkbride, Kathleen Kucka, James Lecce, Markus Linnenbrink, Joanne Mattera, Carolanna Parlato, Paul Russo, Robert Sagerman, Louise P. Sloane, and Leslie Wayne.
