Tompkins County Public Library

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Seriously, Series

Curated by Rebecca Godin

On display at the Library October through December 2011

The opening reception will take place on Friday, October 7, 5:00 to 8:00 PM, in conjunction with Gallery Opening night.  Please enter the Library through the BorgWarner Community Room Door, behind the bus shelter on Green Street.

Almost all artists explore a series sometime during their careers. From Monet to O’Keefe, Kahlo to Ringgold, ancient times to the present, the attractions of creating a series are powerful and varied.

An artist can view an image, a motif, or concept from multiple perspectives. Repetition and variation of a theme can be seductive and rewarding.

Sometimes an artist can create vastly different images within a series which still expand one idea, one portrait, place, activity, color or quest.

Seriously, Series offers abstraction, design, photography, sculpture, portraiture, place, time, obsessions and joys which we hope you enjoy.


Visit this exhibit in the Library and on Flickr at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7631711@N08/sets/72157627665059535/

The artists and series titles are:


Rebecca Godin
Corners

Kurt Lichtmann
Dance: Time and Magnetism

Daniel McPheeters
Mandalas

John Lyon Paul
Pilgrimage
johnlyonpaul@gmail.com
johnlyonpaul.com
 


Terry Plater
Encounters

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Romance, Exploits & Peril: When Movies Were Made in Ithaca


Exhibition Opening Sept, 29, 2011
Depicting the history of the Wharton brothers’ silent film studio in Ithaca this installation is presented by IMPP, the Ithaca Motion Picture Project and will be on display at TCPL through November 8, 2011. 

Created by award-winning architect Todd Zwigard in collaboration with Art & Anthropology principals Jason Otero and Joe Lamarre, the timeline allows viewers to walk through the exhibit as if on a film set. The exhibit puts the Wharton movie studio and the movies made in our community in context of the history of the motion picture industry.  The Wharton brothers established their studio in present day Stewart Park and transformed Ithaca, with its dramatic natural landscapes built around a bustling town with a thriving academic community, into a center for early movie-making.