Archive 4 - September - December, 2000

Gallery Highlights - Archive 4

TIPPER GORE

"I believe photography can be a powerful medium to illuminate the most complicated and controversial subjects. Photographs can touch the soul and motivate people to take action."
...Tipper Gore

Accompanying the exhibition is "The Way Home, ENDING HOMELESS IN AMERICA," a 160-page, fully illustrated book, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., which is donating proceeds from the sales to the National Alliance to End Homelessness: A Partnership of Non-profits, Public Agencies and Corporations.

Powerful and compassionate look at the homeless, "The Way Home: Ending Homelessness in America, on view in the Los Angles Central Library's Getty Gallery, through October 15

"The Way Home" showcases images by many well-known photographers: Jodi Cobb, Donna Ferrato, Ben Fernandez, Betsy Frampton, Tipper Gore, Annie Leibovitz, Mary Ellen Mark, Eli Reed, Joseph Rodriguez, Stephen Shames, Callie Shell, Diana Walker and Clarence Williams.

The exhibition curators invited 13 photographers--some artists, some photojournalists--to meet homeless people in the subjects' makeshift dwelling places and in various forms of interim and permanent housing.

Traveling through America's cities, the photographers recorded homelessness not as general social condition or charge political issue, but as a personal predicament with which real men and women grapple. From Los Angeles to New York, these artists documented homelessness and its solutions with compassionate and incisive eyes.

"This project seeks to convey a contemporary and fresh look at those who are homeless in light of solutions that have been pioneered over the past decade," says Jane Siena, exhibition co-curator. "With this outstanding group of photographers, all of whom bring their own styles and perspectives to the project, we set out to break stereotype, to humanize the issue, and to tell stories of real-life people facing real-life problems. We are building on a long tradition of socially-focused art that blends our objective and subjective understandings of life around us."

Curators:
Philip Brookman, Corcoran Gallery of Art
Jane Slate Siena, Getty Conservation Institute

EXHIBITION OF NEW INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY, PLANO ARTCENTRE

Street and Portrait Photographer, Lillian Wilson, exhibits two black and white images, "Anastasia and Nicole" and "Leonard Nimoy with Molly," at The ArtCentre of Plano, Texas.

"Image 2000" is a large exhibition of new international photography that opens in its galleries on November 18, 2000, curated by Patricia Richards of Plano, Texas and Frank Long of Los Angeles, CA. It will feature the photographic works of 85 artists from 15 countries around the world. Almost half of those exhibiting are women, including fellow Californian's Ann Meredith, Juliet Varnedoe, Lucy H.G. and Suzun Lucia Lamainia.

Image 2000 opens November 18, 2000 - January 3, 2001.
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 18, 2000, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

For more information, contact:
The ArtCentre of Plano
1039 East 15th Street
Plano, Tx 75074-6221
Phone: 972-423-7809

COLLECTIVE MEMORIES
Culpepper Gallery, Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Centre, NYC

Patricia D. Richards solo exhibition of COLLECTIVE MEMORIES is a compilation of 100 years of familial imagery made or saved by the women in her family. The images show how much has changed, and at the same time, stayed the same with the passage of time. Each piece has a vintage print coupled with one of Richard's that bears an uncanny resemblance-all taken without distinct knowledge of the preceding work and found accidentally following the death of her 101 year old Grandmother.

November 9, 2000 -December 9, 2000
Reception December 8 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Culpepper Gallery
466 Grand Street
NYC, New York

Women Photographers at National Geographic on Exhibit at Newseum, New York
The exhibit represents 36 photographers work in 66 framed photographs and 25 portfolio prints on viewing tables

Newseum/New York
Address: 580 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
October 5, 2000 - January 27, 2001
Gallery Hours: Mon. - Sat. 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

For more information call 212-317-7596 or visit online www.newseum.org. Admission is free.

(see the Carole Glauber Review in the WIPI Book Review section of F2 eZine)

The exhibit is also on view at:

National Geographic Headquarters, EXPLORERS HALL MUSEUM
Women Photographers at National Geographic

Address: 1145 17th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
October 12, 2000 - January 1, 2001
Gallery Hours: Mon. - Sat. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information call 202-857-7588 or visit online http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorer/index.html. Admission is free.

A SHOT IN THE DARK - Night photographs by Larry Miller, Lynne Saville and JILL WATERMAN

Jill Waterman photographs rural and suburban locales, capturing the movement of orbiting stars, rising moons and passing planes. Waterman records reality, but also captures something invisible to the human eye - forces of cosmic energy and the rotation of the earth. Her photographs are infused with moonlight and ambient light, resulting in ethereal landscapes that pulsate with saturated color.

Hudson River Museum, Upper Main Gallery - Sept. 22 - Dec. 30, 2000
511 Warburton Avenue
Yonkers NY10701-1899
(914) 963-4550
Hours: Wed. - Sun.: Noon - 5PM

What's the best part of old age?
"Well of course it's always interesting. There are so many angles.." Rosita Holler, Age 99

"The Gathering of the Wisdom People"

This unique multimedia exhibit on aging includes photographs, both past and present, and the recorded insights and experiences of 18 people in their eighties and nineties. Video clips and music add humor and romance. Created by Cindy Pickard, this exhibit reminds us that it is the elders in our society who are the keepers of the wisdom and the teachers for the future generations.

Online Exhibit:
July 2000-ongoing

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