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Organic Expressions
June 21-July 28, 2007
Third Thursday Reception: July 19, 5-7 pm |
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Relax at the Lapham Gallery with a summer visit. |
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| Textured landscape scenes by Alice
Wand, lovingly created with paper and paint, will make you look
twice or even three times.
Gary Larsen's photographs make you rethink the
beauty the camera catches as time takes its toll. You will
marvel at the composition and aesthetic of Crystal
Eggleston's sculptures, and
Christine French's whimsical sculptures or vessels will make
you smile. For art
collectors, there are wonderful works of art available for purchase. |
| Gary Larsen |
"The remnants of man’s aging structures often form
surprisingly beautiful subjects. Forgotten and left to crumble
away, they combine with nature’s creativity to capture my
attention. Often the mysteries they imply seem to parallel their
age. My most recent images exemplify these time-shaped
qualities.
While the building materials weather, wither and waste away,
their ever changing shapes and colors capture subtle light and
shadows. They develop new patinas and bear their aging destiny
so gracefully. They form sculptures that droop and wrinkle in
new directions with every season. The soft shapes of flowers
sometimes complement their bending lines and cracking faces." |
Enlightenment |
"As I age, perhaps I find a sense of identification with their
failing resistance to an inevitable fate. Or perhaps their
fading condition is really just a great metaphor for the
futility of a short-sighted disregard for nature’s forces.
Mankind’s increasingly ill-conceived demands on a fragile world
are always being pursued within a false a sense of permanence.
Whatever the meaning present in these forms, I find great
satisfaction in their beauty.
Taking these images has become a part of my increasing
commitment to photography. I have lived in 12 states and
traveled extensively. I photograph in 35 mm format with color
slides. While my subjects are frequently drawn from nature and
focus on landscapes, structures and flowers, I also find
close-up photography to be exciting." |
| Christine French |
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"Vessels with Attitude represent my present
sculptural art work series. These baskets had their birth in
the crafts classroom of a high school, where I was teaching a
basket-making lesson. The students in the class were not very
successful at creating baskets. In fact, they looked pretty bad
when they were finished. Something had to be done. That is
when, I decided, to add legs with paper pulp. The students then,
spray painted the vessel sculptures and embellished them with
feathers and puffy paint. The basket making experience finally
became a success." |
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continued this same concept with my own work since retiring from
30 years of teaching. My former lesson has evolved into
this creative series of sculptural baskets. Some of my
baskets are made from reed, whereas others are made from half a
gourd. Driftwood is collected from the beach on Lake Erie
in Barcelona New York. Three pieces of driftwood are added
to each basket with paper pulp and allowed to dry. I use
three legs because I was born on the third day of February.
The surface is coated with gut and then stained. Each
vessel is embellished with feathers, fabric, beads, and yarn.
The legs are doted with fabric paint. They are animated,
whimsical, humorous and fun. I call them 'Vessels
with Attitude' because they are like all my former students and
many of my women friends, 'All Different and with an Attitude'." |
| Alice Wand |
| "My
paintings take on a life of their own. I start with an idea,
then a sketch or photograph, and finally I begin to assemble and
design the actual painting. About this time I wonder why it all
looks so different from the original idea in my head. I realize
that the work has taken on a life of its own. It wants to
proceed to completion in a certain way and have a certain look
that may not be what I originally intended. This is very
humbling for an artist. I must let go of the creation almost the
same way that a parent must let go of a grown-up child." |
Alice Wand at Work |
| Crystal Eggleston |
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"The emergence of wood and metal has always intrigued me, perhaps
as much as the way in which they are connected. For several
years I have investigated the process of creating sculpture and
have found myself most fascinated with the connection of
materials. It is only in the past few years that my
investigation has proved its worth. As a result my sculptures
have evolved into skeletal combines of wood and metal with
unique and peculiar connections. Common materials such as
electrical ties and builder’s tape often find their way into my
pieces. I am drawn into the investigation of the process of
measuring, cutting, sanding, and cutting again. The process of
joinery and technique of trial and error are what gives these
pieces their character and intrigue." |
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"Currently, I am working with different forms of steel and other
perforated metals as well as investigating ideas for joining
them with handcrafted wooden elements. In the next year I would
like to incorporate elements of color as well as an assortment
of other unusual materials as connectors and joints. These
pieces include several
large pieces and many smaller sculptures that display an
integration of wood, metal, joinery, peculiar materials and
possibly an introduction of color. These pieces are shown in
a way that allows the viewer to delve into the material and
explore the media’s potential just as the artist would have done
so." |
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Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council
7 Lapham Place
Glens Falls, NY 12801
(518) 798-1144 • Fax: (518) 798-9122
information@larac.org
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