Gross Anatomy, Oct. 6- Nov. 10, 2007
Curated by Aurora Deshauteurs and Carol Taylor-Kearney
The catalyst for this exhibition was the calculating sale of Thomas Eakins’ Gross Clinic. Shrewd business is not an innovation of the 21st century, and throughout history ,man, specifically enterprising man, has shown his ability to manipulate circumstances to his favor. The sale and resale of Gross Clinic is just a current example. What is it that drives us to manipulate, calculate or even interpret fixed ideas? How do we see beyond the literal?
Ten Artists' works will be on display October 6 through November 10; Warren Angle, Rosemary Castiglioni, Ben Cohen, Candace Davis, Richard Dunn, Elaine M. Erne, Michael Gallagher, Geoffrey Hindle, Carol Taylor-Kearney and Nancy W. Wright.
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Multiplicity, August 25 - September 29, 2007 Curated by Carol Taylor-Kearney
The title, Multiplicity, refers to the idea of repetition and duplication. Each artist of the exhibition, Multiplicity, used the characteristics of the multiple to their own visual ends. For Charles Katzenbach the viewer was challenged to experience evolutionary change; for Luke Weichmann, it was the strength of the individual in a replicated system; and for Don Simon, how the relationship of Nature and the man-made called into question our stewardship of the earth. |
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Don SimonThe Personal Picture Plane, May 5 - June 9, 2007 Curated by Carol Taylor-Kearney
As systems and materials changed, so did the picture plane, at first moving to lighter and more transportable means: from cave and plaster wall to wood to canvas, alloys, and more durable papers. Today’s painters have an extraordinary number of choices. Art at “the end of Art”, as coined by Arthur Danto, gives artists a resource-rich environment from which to select, to combine, or to build their visual interactions of the world. Painters, as the tradition holds, continue to use the materiality of color on a support, and the materiality and the expression of both have expanded to include a greater personalization. The picture plane has become part and parcel of this lexicon, not simply its prop.
The artists include in the exhibition are Ellen Abraham, Jim Brossy, Louise DeSalvo, Aurora Deshauteurs, Richard Elzo Dunn, Jessica Makin and Carol Taylor-Kearney.
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The Progress of Process, March 24th - April 28th, 2007
Three area artists; David Foss, Michelle Marcuse, and Kathryn Pannepacker provided access into the “behind the scenes” interaction of the artistic process.
(This was a Curatorial Proposal Project)
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