Hands On Photography : Alternative Processes – Main Gallery
Exhibit Dates: September 6th – October 4th
Reception: September 13th, 2014 (6-8pm)
In today’s world of instant gratification with the proliferation of digital cameras and cell phone cameras, everyone can be a photographer. The majority of photographs shot today are viewed strictly on computer screens and other digital devices, and shared on websites like facebook and flickr. Many people now taking up photography are not aware of what is involved in developing and printing images to be viewed on paper and framed as art. There seems to be less emphasis on the printed piece, which until recently, was the standard.
This exhibit will present several bodies of work created by a small group of photographers/artists that have been studying alternative processes at Mercer County Community College along with their instructor, Sandra C. Davis’s,images. The show will represent many techniques used by contemporary artists working in historic photographic processes. This group of artists is committed to using these techniques to produce images, and by doing so, continuing to create awareness of the existence and need for handmade photographic prints. Working in these processes allows the artists to get wet and messy and to embrace the imperfection of handmade photographic images.tri
Pedestrian Art – Solo exhibition of works by Michael Kember – Community Gallery
Exhibit dates: September 6th – October 4th
Reception: September 13th, 2014 (6-8pm)
I’m an impecunious ne’er-do-well teetering constantly on the precipice of disaster. With no training or technique to claim, my method consists of mindlessly slathering on the paint with dogged insistence until the picture bends to my will. I insist upon using no reference material, which results in a personal vision. I’m interested in creating people, almost exclusively women with prurient inclinations. I wouldn’t dream of doing a landscape. My style is pedestrian, with no apologies, in the sense that I’ve nothing to say. I have no interest in deep hidden meaning or redeeming social values. Any allusions to such are purely coincidental. However, there is always a story behind everything I paint that I could tell people, but I would rather not.
– Michael Kember
Old Night: An Exploration – Solo exhibition of works by Robert Zitzman – Artlab Gallery
Exhibit Dates: September 6th – October 4th
Reception: September 13th, 2014 (6-8pm)
Old Night is a multi-media representation of an imaginary scientific study produced by an unidentified explorer who is seeking irrefutable evidence of the existence of mythological prototypes living in the woods of New Jersey.
The project consists of hand-typed and illustrated documents, original myths, Giclee prints and found object sculptures that guide the viewer through the explorer’s process and findings as well as through his psyche.
The piece assumes that a cache of documents have been found pertaining to an unpublished scientific observational study. The viewer is not told where, or under what circumstances the documents have been found, or who composed the documents, but clues are provided in the form of black and white Giclee prints with text and seemingly random found-object sculptures.