 | VIRTUAL FANTASY: An Online Exhibition | |
| My work is represented in Melissa Wolf Fine Arts on line exhibition VIRTUAL FANTASY. Artists and photographers were asked to present work suspended between the world of reality and imagination.
Four of my photographs, including BETWEEN LIVES were selected by Juror Mark Blickley, who has written about visual artists for Artis Spectrum Magazine; he is an English Professor at York College, C.U.N.Y. and a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Scholarship Award for Drama.
The exhibit is on display from now through May 11, 2012. Visit the exhibition at www.melissawolffinearts.com After that, it will be permanently archived in exhibitions on Melissa Wolf Fine Arts. Melissa Wolf Fine Arts is an on-line venue dedicated to featuring the best art on the internet. | ||
 | MY LATE NIGHT ANIMALS PHOTOGRAPHS AT RAANDESK GALLERY, NYC | |
| I'm pleased to tell you that images from my new series LATE NIGHT ANIMALS are included in the current exhibition Optical: Staged at Raandesk Gallery of Art. I'm honored to be one of the top five finalists selected by jurors Evan Mirapul and J.P. Pullos; the exhibit will also include work by finalists Katarzyna Majak, Tom Prado, , Frances Berry and Vincent Zambrano Please join us for the Opening Reception: Thursday, March 10, 7 - 9 PM Raandesk Gallery 16 W. 23rd Street, 4th Floor, NYC between 5 - 6 Avenues info@raandeskgallery.com 212.696.7432 The exhibition will run through April 23, 2011; Gallery hours: Saturdays 12 - 4 pm and by appointment. RAANDESK? GALLERY OF ART, located in New York's Chelsea district is the premier resource for art collectors and art enthusiasts to purchase works by emerging artist talent from all over the world. Each year Raandesk Gallery hosts an international competition in photography with a specific theme. The theme, Staged, was selected by one of the jurors for the 2010 competition and served as a single word platform for photographers to present their work. The exhibition is comprised of photographs created by the top five finalists of the competition and serves to be dramatic as well as insightful into each artist's individual definition of the theme. Artist's Statement: Late Night Animals This series began as a visual journal; I found myself drawn to the humor, wackiness and pathos in the spectacle of wild animals as guests on late night talk TV. Most of us will never see these animals in their natural habitat or even in a zoo, for that matter. Our experience of them is through the medium of TV and through the culture of celebrity. The exotic, foreign and strange are presented for our entertainment. Some of the animals display great patience and dignity; some seem barely contained; others seem to like strutting their stuff and seem completely at home in the spotlight. The reactions of the TV hosts, from loving sentimentality to wariness to outright fear, mirror our own reactions. We want to know these animals better, but on our own terms and in our own comfort zone; and we want them to entertain us. Is this quintessentially American, or basic to human nature? The animals are often brought on as TV guests with the best of intentions: to educate the mass TV audience. Often these species are perilously close to extinction. I found myself wondering: does our culture handle the vanishing of a species by giving them 15 minutes of fame before they are gone for good? In these pictures, I try to speak to our conflicted reactions about co-existing with wildness and the natural world, and the irony of a culture that seems to love these animals to death but can't seem to leave them alone. | ||
 | PORTALS IMAGES AT THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB, NYC | |
| I'm pleased to tell you that images from my "Portals" series are included in the current exhibit PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING (PAI) MEMBERS EXHIBITION AT THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB, NYC on view from January 6 - January 28, 2011. at: The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC 212-475-3425 Gallery Hours: M,W and Fri 10AM-12PM & 3PM-5PM, Tues 2-5PM For Sat & Sun and other off-hours The NAC is very accommodating, Please Call ahead. | ||
 | My DIVINE FEMININE Prints in The Kinsey Institute Art Collection | |
| Prints from my series THE DIVINE FEMININE: WOMEN IN CELTIC MYTH are now part of the art collection of The Kinsey Institute. The series was inspired by the female characters of Celtic myth and their multi-faceted roles. The Kinsey Institute's Art, Artifacts and Photography Collections span over 2,000 years. They are a unique visual resource for scholars. The Kinsey Institute Art & Artifacts Fund was established to support these special collections. Gifts to the fund are used to procure and preserve the art, artifacts and photography collections at the Kinsey Institute and to assist with exhibition costs. | ||
 | My Play THE SACRIFICIAL KING: A PLAY FOR JOHN LENNON in Boston | |
| My play THE SACRIFICIAL KING: A PLAY FOR JOHN LENNON, a finalist in the 2009 Boston Globe State Drama Festival, won two awards for acting for our leads Devin Cheney as John Lennon and Mariah MacFarlane as The Young Girl, and an award for set design by Bobby Cline. At left, a picture of me with our extraordinarily talented cast and crew. Photo by Karen Wong www.karenwong-photo.com The festival is organized by The Massachusetts High School Drama Guild, Inc. which exists for the charitable and educational purpose of promoting and strengthening excellence, access, and education in the theatrical arts for middle and secondary school students and teachers. MHSDG welcomes the generous support of The Boston Globe Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. For review and cast photo Click For More. [Click for More] | ||