DCC Faculty Exhibit Shows Many Faces of Photography and Other Media

Artists’ Reception Thursday, September 14

Release Date September 11, 2006

Dutchess Community College launches its 2006-2007 exhibit season at the Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery with an exhibit of art from the faculty of the Department of Performing, Visual Arts, and Communications (PVAC). The PVAC Faculty Show features creative work in painting, graphics, ceramics, photography, sculpture, and video. It opens Monday, September 11 and runs through Friday, September 29 with an artists’ reception on Thursday, September 14 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. For information, contact Gallery Director Lynn Palumbo at (845) 431-8000 ext. 3982 or email palumbo@sunydutchess.edu.

The exhibit not only showcases the faculty work, but also gives DCC students unexpected insights into their teachers. “Essentially in art classes we teach not just technique but how the creative process works – how to inquire, examine and investigate,” said the Gallery’s new Director Lynn Palumbo. “But it's just as important for us to serve as models of that process for our students by sharing with them our own studio practice.”

Palumbo said many of the paintings in the show feature organic form. “I also noticed a wide variety of approaches to photo and its evolving technologies.” In the exhibit, Lowell Handler makes photos that are quite a departure from his usual photo-journalism approach to show his discovery of the clear, warm light of Deer Isle, Maine. Laura Gail Tyler presents staged dramas which are wonders of lighting and scale. And Eric Somers spotlights “found beauty” with an exploration of a Japanese artform called wabi-sabi which celebrates simplicity from nature and rustic objects made with organic materials.

Photographer Lori Adams has a large-scale inkjet print in contrasts of black and white in a work that bridges traditional and digital photography. “I wanted to capture the denseness of the forest and had with me on the hike an older (25+ years) medium format camera (a Mamiya C330),” said Adams. Roughly five years later, she scanned the negative and created the print.

The Gallery is located at the north end of campus in the Allyn J. Washington Center for Science and Art, room 150-153. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., and Friday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Additional Shows for the 2006-2007 school year include:

Summergroup

Wednesday, October 11 through Friday, November 3, 2006, with an artists’ reception Thursday, October 19 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.

Four Points of View: Figuration in Printmaking

Thursday November 16 through Wednesday, November 15, 2006, with an artists; reception on Thursday, November 16 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.

Fall 2006 PVAC Student Exhibit

Tuesday, January 16 through Friday, February 9, with an artists’ reception on Thursday, January 18 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.

Concetta Scaravaglione

Monday, February 26 through Friday, March 23, with an artists’ reception on Thursday, March 1 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.

In Plain Sight

Monday, April 9 through Friday, May 4, with an artists’ reception on Thursday, April 12.

Spring 2007 PVAC Student Exhibit

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