New Center for the Arts on Hawley Street in Northampton
WHAT:
Photographs past Christopher Curtis
Ceramic Sculptures by Immer Mowry Cook
Paintings by Susan Valentine
WHEN: March ix – April 3, 2020
Reception: Mon, March 16, 6:00-eight:30pm
WHERE: Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Library twenty West Street Northampton, MA.
Immer Mowry Cook
Artist'due south Statement
I grew up in and currently alive in Easthampton, MA. An interest in modern and contact improvisational trip the light fantastic toe led me to pursue the written report of trip the light fantastic toe in college. While in that location I institute my way to ceramics and take been committed to the medium e'er since. I have been creating work out of a shared community studio in Florence for the by few years.
I use traditional hand-building techniques and occasional wheel thrown elements to create my sculptures. My work has generally e'er fabricated reference to vessel forms, using the architecture of the vessel( foot, trunk, handle, spout), as a vehicle for self expression. One thread in my current torso of work represents a deviation from that focus. In this serial I tried to develop a personal iconography which led me to a series of portraits and the incorporation of a pedestal element into my compositions.
Susan Valentine
Artist's Argument
I'k endlessly fascinated by the play of natural light on a surface. In 2017 I began to direct that involvement to my parents' babyhood marble drove playing in the afternoon sun on my windowsill. That became a three-year journey, which grew to include many more marbles photographed on sunny afternoons equally reference for these oil paintings.
I brainstorm with a sunny solar day, employ my phone'south camera, crop and edit those photos and and then grid and describe the smaller ones, pulling out the projector to draw in the larger, more complex compositions. But a few layers of thin oil pigment gets my intentions beyond.
Currently, I focus my attention to the beautiful forms of fruits and veggies. I include a smattering of the series, Sustenance, in this exhibit.
Cheers for your interest in this local art scene. I'chiliad very proud to be a function of it. Come across examples of my piece of work at www.susanvalentine.art.
Christopher Curtis: Luminous Places
Creative person's Statement
I am interested in photographing landscapes where the bones of the world are revealed, where there are big skies and wild animals moving freely, and where sunlight etches the features of the state. I am also interested in the sacred places where its ancient aboriginal man's relationship with the state tin can still be seen. Many of these places are vanishing forever, only in the time that I have been on the planet. With these photographs, I hope to convey the sense of place and the boggling beauty and fragility of our planet.
My exhibit is titled "Luminous Places", and includes images from wild places around the globe. My photographs are large format colour landscape images, some panoramas, beautifully printed on cotton rag newspaper. I accept travelled the world in search of landscapes that are wild, spiritual and ancient, and that speak to me in an ineffable and timeless voice. These places connect me, with their compelling beauty, the deep silence, sugariness scents, low-cal and shadow, to a sense that god is present in nature, and that nature is a powerful and dominant force. My photographs include images of rare ecosystems on top of Mount Kenya, dreamtime stone art in remote Cape York, Australia, sunrise on the islands of the Sea of Cortez, shamanic petroglyphs in Wyoming, mists in the Hoh Rainforest, rainstorms over Canyonlands, Masai villages, and ancient granaries in the Grand Coulee.
I take been photographing for over twoscore years, and studied photography at the University of Colorado. My work has been exhibited in numerous 1-person and grouping shows, including at Porter Phelps Huntington House Museum, Greenfield Community College, the Vermont Middle for Photography, Franklin County Arts Council, Northampton Center for the Arts, University of Nebraska, Greentrees Gallery, University of Colorado, Alfredo's Photographic Gallery and other galleries.
Forbes Library
xx West Street
Northampton MA 01060
413-587-1011 x 4529
fkaufmann@forbeslibrary.org
http://forbeslibrary.org
Source: https://www.northamptonartscouncil.org/2020/02/
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