June Art Highlights
6/14 through 9/17- Regional Triennial of the Photographic Arts: THE CAMERA ALWAYS LIES, at Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. Curator Beth Wilson has assembled nine of the Hudson Valley’s most talented and provocative artists to explore the illusory quality of the photographic medium. Wilson states, ”Despite its apparent directness, photography (like all forms of representation) collapses reality in ways that inevitably shape our experience of the world as it is perceived through that (specific) medium. From its very inception, the camera has functioned to make a picture of the world, which is something very different from a total (re)creation of one. The ‘mirror with a memory,’ photographic images insinuate themselves between us and the place and time in which they are made, a technology that enables the wide array of strategies displayed by the artists in this exhibition.” Featuring the works of Joan Barker, John Dugdale, Jaanika Peerna, Rob Penner, Sam Sebren, Julianne Swartz, Kathleen Sweeney, Susan Wides and Ion Zupcu. Center for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker St., Woodstock, www.cpw.org, 845.679.9957. Open We-Su 12-5 PM. Opening reception Sa 6/14, 5-7 PM
6/14 through 7/21- A VISUAL CONVERSATION, solo show by Robert Hills at Sharada Gallery, Rhinebeck. It’s worth a trip to the Sharada in Rhinebeck just to see the unbelievably cool art/furniture she has on display. I can’t even begin to describe the unique designs, fully functional—you just have to take a moment to check the website for yourself. This month Sharada enhances her one-of-a-kind location with paintings by Robert Hills. From the mission statement: “The show A VISUAL CONVERSATION is work that can only be described as visual software, where thoughts ‘roll’ across forms, allowing them to communicate, resonate, and interact with each other. It is a visual abstraction of the artist thinking about art. The paintings interact with each other to form a dialog, much like the software of generative forms...CONTINUE
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