Six views of photography
The show is a group exhibition featuring six seasoned photographers inside the Cape Cod Museum of Art and two off-site pieces of public art. Edith Tonelli, the museum's director, says that the show "juxtaposes contrasting styles and techniques in photography through a series of pieces from six New England photographers .These photographers are respected nationally and internationally for their artistic prowess in this art form. From Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maine ,the photographers are: Fran Forman, Cig Harvey, Andrew K. Howard, Lou Jones, Sean Kernan,and Karin Rosenthal. The work focuses on the diversity of emotionally compelling images, camera types, lighting methods, development processes and technology. The...exhibition raises the question being asked in our photographic world today: Is the art of photography changing? It's often directly or indirectly affected by new technology. We want to celebrate the fascinating variety of approaches, from the traditional to the computer- generated, that photographers are using to communicate their personal and aesthetic expressions today.''
The faces of art
Work by BILL LIEBESKIND, in his show "We Make Art: 1,001 Artist Portraits'', at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, in Dennis, Mass., through June 14.
This artist has fashioned 1,001 heads of artists (including alive and long dead) from modeling clay. Incredibly, it took him only two years. Not surprisingly, he also makes comic books.
This project is educational in a number of ways. One is that it's way for people to see what famous artists whose faces are little known actually looked like. (The faces of only a few famed artists are well known, such as those of Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali.)
That might help viewers understand their personalities a bit more.
The museum's blurb says that, in addition to his art about fellow artists, he is "inspired by current events, such as the destruction of the World Trade Center and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. Liebeskind attempts to make sense of the chaos in the world by using such powerful imagery in his work.''
Don't we all try to make sense of the world's chaos -- until, usually later in life, we give up trying?