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Schlick demonstrates nature photography techniques in BTG Lake Walk

August 13, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

“Contemplative Photography” is the theme for Jennifer Schlick’s Lake Walk today. Schlick is program director at the Jamestown Audubon Center and Sanctuary. She has exhibited photographs in several group shows, and her spring wildflower photos were presented in a solo show in 2011 at the James Prendergast Library in Jamestown.

Schlick said that individuals should bring a camera, beginner or advance — even an iPhone — and let their creativity flow. The group will first consider the differences between a conceptual and a perceptual approach to photography. The conceptual approach has its place, but during the walk, ideas will be discarded, and attention will be directed to pure perception.

The walk begins at 6:30 p.m. today on the covered porch at the Heinz Fitness Center (below the YAC) on South Lake Drive at the corner of South. The Bird, Tree & Garden Club sponsors the program in partnership with the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy. A portable sound system is used so people can hear the speaker.

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‘Madness’ creators to reveal how they lampoon world of fine art

July 20, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

An artist, a gallery owner and a fine art dealer all star in “The Madness of Art,” a web series that puts the fun back into fine art.

At 6:30 p.m. today in the Hall of Christ, creator Jim Kempner and producer Charlie Hewitt will show episodes of “The Madness of Art” and share behind-the-scenes stories.

The show was created 10 years after art dealer Kempner opened his Chelsea gallery in New York City. Before entering the art world, Kempner had been a stand-up comedian working in California. One day, he wanted to buy a print for his room, so he contacted a dealer.

“I knew nothing about art,” said Kempner. “He spent an hour with me, showing me what a lithograph was, an etching, a silkscreen. He talked about the history of printmaking, and I was overwhelmed, bowled over. I left there afire.”

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Wesley Anderegg. “Man,” “Two Headed Man,” “Woman,” “Lollipop,” “Man with Pipe.” Ceramic plates. 18˝ × 23˝ Photo by Lauren Rock.

31 nameless orphans, looking for a home

July 18, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Very few pictures wear name tags. Naming is the province of the caption, or of an oral tradition, sometimes passed on from parents to children, but more often eluding the good intentions of commitment to writing. The boxes of anonymous photographs in most home closets are silent testimony to this nominative failure. Worse yet, consider the images of family and friends banished, orphaned, at estate sales and flea markets, touching evidence of the painfully anonymous tradition of the portrait.

Judy Barie, director of the galleries of the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution, has opened an image shelter for the nameless at Strohl Art Center, in which she offers 31 unnamed images to patrons ready to provide foster parenting and a new home for only partially identified images.

Yes, there are a few pictures known by first names in the shelter — Allen, Joe, Steve, Trudy, Joe, and Virginia among them. Otherwise, we must be content with Two Headed Man, Small Female Head, Young Bride, and Teens on the Beach.

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2012 Strohl exhibitions open windows into bright new worlds

June 24, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Downstairs in the Strohl Art Center, children’s books morph into avian shapes and take flight across a wall. Around the corner, young women wearing surgical masks stand encased in a glass box. Upstairs, the underwater world is illuminated and animated behind a photography exhibit’s glass, and behind that, the works on paper of some of the most important artists of the 1970s and ’80s take the visitor on a tour of the history of American Abstraction. Sunday from 3–5 p.m. is the Opening Reception for the exhibits in the Strohl galleries, and the art is coming alive.

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