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Bigtown
presents “In Community,” a showing of photographs and prints
by five local artists, each offering a unique perspective on community.
The first of six scheduled exhibitions for 2006, the show is a mixture
of iconography and visual anthropology: equal parts magic realism and
well-ordered surrealism.
Photos by Lily Frisco
After graduating
from the State University of New York at Purchase, Lily Frisco lived and
worked for two years Philadelphia, PA. She taught art to children in inner
city schools while building an exceptionally elegant project of the images
she captured. Lily’s work synthesizes the joy and beauty revealed
in these children’s faces with the aesthetics and character of their
urban neighborhoods.
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Prints
by Bethany McCarty
Bethany
McCarty, also native to Rochester, attended Parsons School of Art and
Design. The woodcuts she presents here are a personal portrait of her
years growing up and living at the Quarry Hill Community in Rochester.
Bethany’s sophisticated and independent voice unifies a rich complexity
of symbol into a contemporary history and offers an insightful view of
an alternative experience of rural community.
Photos by Potter Stockwell
Potter Stockwell
has wandered the United States for most of his life, turning his keen
and perceptive eye on the rural landscape and the ways of its people.
His photographs capture the quintessential American small town rituals
that weave the tapestry of our experience of community. The black and
white photographs included in this exhibit were taken during his travels
into Pennsylvania and Virginia last November.
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on Potter Stockwell
Etchings
by Edward Huse
Edward Huse’s surreal landscape etchings belie their small scale
with the ambition of his language of observation. Whether proposing an
intricate order just beneath their surfaces or slyly exposing the underpinnings
of the absurd, Huse’s finely rendered images delight with their
humor and engage with their warmth and imagination.
Prints
by Friedrich Gross
Chelsea, VT, resident, Friedrich Gross's quartet of self-portraits are
unusual in both scale and content. The images are of a well-ordered symbolic
surrealism, fitting organically to the unifying surface qualities produced
by the etching process of printmaking. Here we are invited to reexamine
and reevaluate our ideas of portraiture in the context of an intimately
reduced world.