FOCUS: Looking Real/Really Looking
October 27 – November 25, 2018
Reception: Saturday, November 3, 4 – 6 PM
Gallery Talk: Friday, October 26, 5 PM
MAIN GALLERY
JUROR: Daniel Goodwin
Photographer, Professor of Art, SUNY Albany
AWARDS: Kenneth Ragsdale
Anne Helioff/Benjamin Hirschberg Award
EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Irwin Berman, Alon Koppel, Francesco Mastalia, Ralph Moseley, Philip Palmieri, Richard Pantell, Elise Pittelman, Kenneth Ragsdale, Russell Ritell and Joyce Washor Saltzman
Introduced in 2017, the FOCUS series features the work of ten artists in a theme-based exhibition. Selections are curated by a different juror for each exhibition with each artist represented by multiple examples of their work in service to the particular show’s theme.
The last FOCUS show of 2018 investigates the notion of the real in art. Does Realism really portray reality? Is a painting of a black square on a white canvas more or less real than a still life of apples? Is a concept more real than a photograph? And how can what we assume to be real be manipulated to mislead us. All these and other intriguing questions will be explored in this exhibition juried by Daniel Goodwin, Associate Professor of Art at SUNY Albany.
In the Press
Tags: 2018 Exhibitions, 2018 Past Exhibitions, Alon Koppel, Daniel Goodwin, Elise Pittelman, FOCUS Series, Francesco Mastalia, Irwin Berman, Joyce Washor Saltzman, Kenneth Ragsdale, Main Gallery, Philip Palmieri, Ralph Moseley, Richard Pantell, Russell Ritell
