August 2010

Around Town

Contemporary Still Life
Featured at Pelham Art Center

From the age of Vanitas to the age of Anxiety, the still life possesses a keen and magnetic power. One of the most familiar of artistic genres, it can be recognized as the representation of things, often arranged within a domestic setting. Because the objects of still life are ordinary - flowers, a goblet, a book, a tin can – their selection and translation into an artistic medium intensifies them and brings meaning to their assembled presence. The genre as a whole exists within the human relation to things, “essentially,” observes the novelist Siri Hustvedt, “a relation between what is living and what is dead.”

The Things Themselves is a new exhibition open to the public, of still life painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video art by contemporary artists that will be featured at The Pelham Art Center from September 10- October 30, 2010 with an opening Reception and all age art workshop on Friday, Sept. 10, from 6:30- 8:00pm. Works are based on observation of the material and natural world. Yet, rather than a faithful representation of inanimate objects or a clever nod to traditional still life, it is our ever-changing relationship with things that is their subject. Reality, inquiry and the nature of experience are important ideas for these works as is visual composition. The participating artists include: Richard Baker, William Behnken, Raymon Elozua, Amy Forsyth and Mark Sfirri, Sally Friedman, David Goldes, Tom Gregg, Cynthia Greig, Myungjin Kim, Kevin Klein, Martin Klimas, David Kroll, Sarah Lamb, Andrew Lattimore, Leigh Taylor Mickelson, Howard Nathenson, Randall Rosenthal, Scott Seabolt , Michiko Yao.

In addition, the Community Gallery will feature a Still Life Timeline created for the exhibit by Joe Wilson, a student of Pelham Art Center new media instructor, Stefanie Victor. The timeline begins with the first identified still life imagery and continue to the 21st century, with key points and images along the way in order to show the continuum of the genre over the centuries.

For more information visit The Pelham Art Center, 155 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, 914-738-2525

 

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