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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
February 3 – 25, 2012
The Poet’s Love by Tom Persinger
Photographs inspired by Schumann’s Dichterliebe (The Poet’s Love)
Robert Schumann composed the piece in 1842 and these photographs are created with processes and techniques contemporary with Schumann’s composition. They are printed on watercolor paper using the salt printing process, the predominant method of the time.
These images were inspired and created to accompany a superb performance of Schumann’s classic 19th century work Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love) as performed by the Pittsburgh Song Collaborative. The concert featured piano virtuoso and musicologist Benjamin Binder and the internationally recognized baritone Troy Cook at the Pittsburgh Opera’s Black Box Space on November 18, 2010. A haunting emotional journey, of yearning, bitterness, despair, and ultimately consolation.
Tom Persinger is an artist, photographer, writer, and the founder of F295. F295 is an international organization that believes in the value of a heterogeneous photographic approach, in which contemporary, historic, and self-made methods are employed and combined in the creation of a new “21st Century Photography.” He organizes the F295 symposium and seminar series to promote the exploration 21st Century Photography. Persinger’s photographs have been shown in numerous exhibitions and are in many private collections in the United States, Europe, and Japan. He has been published in Photographic Possibilities (3rd Edition), Light and Lens (2nd edition), Afterimage, Ag, Black and White Photography (UK), PhotoEd, and View Camera. He has lectured at numerous colleges and universities, has lead many workshops, is a member of Freestyle Photographic’s Advisory Board of Photographic Professionals, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Pittsburgh Filmmakers.
- Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 6-9pm
- Third Friday Art Walk: Friday, February 17, 6-9pm. The artist will be present for the event and reception
- PHOTOtapas @ art intersection, salt printing demo: Saturday, February 18, 10:30-11:30am
March 2 – 25, 2012
“One into Another” by Ron Bimrose
Drawing, Painting, Photography and Collage
Combining elements of nature and manmade environments Ron Bimrose’s work explores the mingling of the line, the paint and photographic images. He creates images of the interconnection between humans and our environments while examining the dissimilar, creating associations and connections to our everyday lives.
Ron Bimrose is an educator of fine art at Mesa Community College and has his studio in Tempe, Arizona. In the late ‘60s, he bought his first camera. He purchased it for the purpose of recording objects for his drawing and painting, his first artistic pursuit. Photography took over. More than a decade later it was printmaking that guided him back to his roots in drawing. Today he uses all the tools he honed over decades of work: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and collage. This mixed-media work has earned him a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and inclusion in numerous private and public collections (including, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, N.Y.). Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale Arizona, Chase Special Collections Center, Carol Reece Museum, Plains Art Museum, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Kennedy Museum of Art.
- Opening Reception: Friday, March 2, 6-9pm
- Third Friday Art Walk: Friday, March 16, 6-9pm
- Phoenix March Art Detour, Saturday, March 17, noon to 6pm and Sunday, March 18, noon to 5pm
April 6 – 28, 2012
“Given” by Anna Strickland
Installation of Palladium/Platinum and Gum Bichromate Prints
This installation will be made up of spatially overlapping and interweaving images on translucent/transparent surfaces, which will explore a sense of spirituality and connectedness.
Anna is an installation artist and senior critic in the Photography Department at Rhode Island School of Design. She is an expert in, antique photographic processes and has taught the contemporary application of historical processes at a number of other colleges, universities and workshops throughout the US and Europe.
Originally trained in antique processes at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY in the 70’s, she has continuously employed these alternative methods in her installations and other professional productions. She holds a graduate degree from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where she did original research in historical processes as part of her thesis.
Her work is found in both private and public collections throughout the US and Europe. She exhibited work from her seminal “Ladder Series” internationally at the Galerie Spéos, which included Platinum/palladium prints.
- Opening Reception: Friday, April 6, 6-9pm
- Third Friday Art Walk: Friday, April 20, 6-9pm
Platinum Palladium and Gum Workshop scheduled with Anna Strickland Please check back for more details.
May 4 – 26, 2012
“Recycle” by Thomas Barker
Thomas Barker creates photographs as a means of communication; to begin a dialogue with others as well as himself. His intention is to introduce imagery whose value can only be fully realized through the perception of the viewer. Giving voice to his own stories, while being cognizant of the stories the audience brings, his photographs transcend intellectual images of the world to include the observer as a participant. It is in this interaction that the image creates stories of life, intrigue and passion; bringing about questions of our values, esthetics, and what it means to be a participant in life.
By the time he was forty he had volumes of negatives and no prints. For him, it didn’t really matter, it was the making of the image that was important. He studied design, painting and photography at Pratt Institute and The University of New Mexico.
It is only now that his eye, the camera, and his existence have become one that he is willing to let others see, sometimes literally, completely unprotected and naked.
- Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 6-9pm
- Third Friday Art Walk: Friday, May 18, 6-9pm
During the months of June, July and August, there will be no exhibitions. The gallery will be open by appointment only.