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Noyes Museum of Art Lily Lake Road |
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ReCreation/Recreation:
Fun with Found Objects January 12 - April 28, 2002 |
STORM an interactive installation that responds to the escalating HIV epidemic January 19 - April 28, 2002 |
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 Marcia Wilson |
STORIES and
DREAMS: Marcia Wilson and Susanna Bergtold January 19 - April 28, 2002 |
| About the Exhibitions |
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/ RECREATION: FUN WITH FOUND OBJECTS" Guest curator Bobby Hansson selected this exhibition of artwork, representing objects made by nationally known artists from recycled materials that can be used for recreational activity, such as musical instruments and board games. A public reception will be held on Saturday, January 26, 2002 from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. and will include an impromptu concert featuring the handmade instruments on display. Admission is $4 for non-members and is free for members. The lighthearted exhibition will feature tin toys including trucks, cars, planes, motorcycles, boats, a rocket ship, and a forklift truck, complete with dinner forks. There is also a display of railroad spikes hammered into knives, spoons, and several garden tools; horseshoes transformed into slingshots; and, barbecue forks and mechanic's wrenches made into knives, spoons and slingshots. According to Hansson, the theme is, perhaps, best reflected by mostly anonymous examples of the "Blacksmith's Art." The highlight of the show is the orchestra-sized collection of musical instruments. All the instruments are playable and some will be used in the impromptu concert on January 26. Bobby Hansson, artist and author of the book, The Fine Art of the Tin Can, has been making sculpture, furniture and musical instruments from found objects since 1955. A former photographer of crafts and sculpture for museums in New York, Hansson now operates Leaping Beaver Tinker Shop in Rising Sun, Maryland and specializes in creating artwork from found objects. Hansson has taught photography and metalworking at the university level for many years and has been the principle photographer for over 30 books and dozens of catalogues and magazine articles. His films and sculpture have been shown in numerous museums (including the Louvre), and his work has been displayed in galleries, in books and on television. Participating artists are: Boris Bally, Barbara Benary, Neil Benson, Andy Buck, Randall Cleaver, Harvey Crabclaw, Jose de Creeft, Dick Crenson, Maggie Creshkoff, Chris Darway, Bob Ebendorf, Lucinda Ellison, Sue Eyet, Diana Froley, Jenna Goldberg, John Grant, Richard Haddick, Hoss Haley, Bobby Hansson, Judith Hoyt, Rob Hudson, Kim Kelzer, Jody Kruskal, Bill Lepley, Pam Lins, Lo/Tec, Lovely Loney Metalworks, Tim McCreight, Tedd McDonah, Fred McGann, Ellis Meredith, Norma Minkowitz, Steven Minkowitz, Warren Muller, Craig Nutt, Opie & Linda O’Brien, Charles Orlando, Kerry Rhoades, Peter Ross, Roy Scroggins, Jr, Robert Frito Seven, Michael Stasiuk, Deb Stoner, Mark Teresa, Ellen Weiske, Stephen Yusko and Eric Ziner. Two adult and two children's programs are planned in conjunction with this exhibition. Adults can join Hansson for an informative and entertaining gallery walk and book signing on January 27, 2002 from 2 to 3 pm and an adult workshop for artistically experimenting with recycled and found objects on March 16, 2002 from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Children's Creative and Little Sparks art activities on March 16, 2002 at 11:00 a.m. and 1 p.m. will teach kids to make tin valentines and valentines printed with tin cans. At the final program on April 20, 2002 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm, Recreation/Recreation artist Jody Kruskal will lead an instrument inventor's workshop for youngsters. "STORM" STORM: an interactive installation responding to the escalating HIV epidemic by artist Rosemarie Chiarlone and poet Susan Weiner. The work, which made its debut in Miami, sensitively explores the impact of HIV/AIDS on individuals and on the larger society, blending poetry with visual art. STORM makes use of new technologies while inviting viewers to become a part of the installation. The installation is presented through the projection of DVD-formatted photographic images on to a double-sided view screen. A poem, written in small, eye-level, type wraps around three white fabric panels that are suspended along with the screen to complete a square. Audio projection of comments from some of the HIV/AIDS interviewees enhances the effect. The installation is completed by rocks, each bearing the name of a deceased victim, placed around the gallery walls. Borrowing from a Jewish custom of placing stones on the graves of deceased relatives, viewers are invited to add the name or a special memory of a family member, friend, or other person they knew and who succumbed to the effects of these diseases on a clean rock. The rocks will be reinstalled on the Museum’s grounds permanently as a lasting local memorial following STORM’s run . Rosemarie Chiarlone is an artist whose works often focus on social ills, such as child abuse, HIV or women’s issues. Born in Philadelphia, she attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Florida International University. She divides her time between studios in New Jersey and Florida. In describing the project, she wrote that she “was stimulated by the enormous public documentation of death and the emerging epidemic in Africa due to the HIV virus.” This inspired the artist to further investigate HIV/AIDS in this country. After securing funding for her proposal for a new art project on the subject, Chiarlone conducted interviews with HIV/AIDS patients. She desired that her installation be participatory. Subsequently, she created STORM so that viewers may not only stand within the work but are offered an opportunity to contribute to it. Noted for her variety of artist’s books, Chiarlone’s creations are in numerous private collections as well as those of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, and the University of Miami’s Otto G. Richter Library Special Collections. Her artist’s books are on view at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington until February 22, 2002. Chiarlone collaborated with poet Susan Weiner for the creation of the installation. Weiner’s poem, entitled Death Wind, is something of an elegy, drawing comparison between HIV and the Black Plague and mourning the loss of many lives. Its final line notes “the virus grows like a gathering storm,” providing inspiration for the title of the installation. Since the 1970s the HIV/AIDS epidemic has claimed more than 17 million lives in Africa, where it accounts for 70% of the 36 million adults and children who have the disease worldwide. Nearly four million of the dead were children. Approximately 12 million more have been orphaned by AIDS. In the United States, an estimated 40,000 new cases of HIV/AIDS are diagnosed each year. Minority populations account for about half of the cases. New Jersey, with its population density and diversity, ranks fifth highest among the states in reported cases of HIV/AIDS with over 43,000 cases since 1981. Nearly one thousand are children. "STORIES AND DREAMS: MARCIA SANDMEYER WILSON AND SUSANNA BERGTOLD" This mid-career retrospective features wood carvings, free standing sculpture, artists books, puppets and prints created by Wilson and Bergtold, friends and neighbors from Leonia New Jersey. Stories and Dreams highlights a body of impressive work that is a testimony to a rare and enduring friendship between Wilson and Bergtold. Wilson's sensibility is usually humorous, autobiographical and narrative, while Bergtold embodies symbolism and emotion in her art. Wilson's subject matter has been personal. She often translates her emotions into pictorial terms, immortalizing her mother, children, boyfriend, and beloved pets in intriguing pieces. Bergtold's subject matter, while usually fantastic, is also autobiographical. She rejects a straightforward depiction in favor of a time-honored symbolic style rooted in both Eastern and Western art. Wilson's heritage along with American Folk art play an inspirational role in her pieces. Many of the wood carvings contain brightly incised patterns; she is drawn to patterns, not only as a part of a drawing, but as an overall compositional device. Wilson received her Bachelors degree in art history from Vassar College, and her Masters in art education from NYU Graduate School of Education. She also gained additional training from the Art Students League and Rutgers Center for Advanced Printmaking. Wilson currently serves as an instructor at the Newark Museum Arts Workshop and previously taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Fair Lawn Adult School. Recipient of many awards including a fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts, Wilson has participated in numerous exhibitions throughout the state. In addition to The Noyes Museum, her work is held in such permanent collections as those of The Newark Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art Library, the New York Public Library Special Collection and the UCLA Library. Bergtold's talents were apparent at a very young age. Starting out as an oil painter, Bergtold later was attracted to woodcarving and intaglio printmaking. She currently specializes in carving large polychromed reliefs with a far Eastern inspiration. Her subjects are often dreamlike or symbolic, and usually intend to be satirical. In contrast to Wilson's color schemes, Bergtold centers on using transparent glazes to capture a natural effect. She attended The Rhode Island School of Design and The Art Students' League of New York. She currently serves as the President of The Manhattan Graphics Center and has been an instructor for The Printmaking Council of New Jersey and the Newark Museum Arts Workshop. Bergtold has exhibited in Vienna, New York City, Boston and New Jersey and her work is represented in the collections of The Newark Museum and New York Public Library. Three ancillary programs are planned in conjunction with this exhibition. A children's workshop, Storytelling with Puppets, will take place February, 2, 2002 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm. Nancy Brownstone of the Brownstone Puppet Theater, Smithville, will share her enthusiasm and knowledge about creating and acting with puppets. Philadelphia artist/educator Barbara Bullock will lead a special hands-on children's workshop on March 9, 2002 from 12:30 to 2:30 pm. Adults can attend a woodworking workshop on April 6, 2002 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm led by exhibiting artists Wilson and Bergtold and learn about wood etching, burning, carving and print techniques. |
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