2 Great Exhibits In 1 – The Sordoni Art Gallery – Mar 21 – May 13

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March 21 – May 14

Landscapes Within Landscapes  Process

Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

 

The gallery is currently open by appointment only.
Email email melissa.carestia@wilkes.edu

 

Landscapes Within Landscapes
50 large prints survey the artist’s career; this exhibit illuminates how the perception of nature and the nature of perception are deeply intertwined. How we see the land changes how we see ourselves. The artist suggests we are land, not apart from nature but a part of Nature.

Process
25 small prints unveil the artist’s practices in detail, showing how process influences perception.

Enhanced with audio, video, and hybrid texts, the two exhibits combined offer a unique look into contemporary visions of land and changes in photographic practice.

Catalog
A catalog expanding upon the exhibit will be available.

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Sordoni Art Gallery – Wilkes University, Wilkes Barre, PA

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Events

 

Monday, March 20

3:15 PM – Interview with Erika Funke, WVIA NPR

 

Tuesday, March 21

11:15-12:45 –  How To Be More Creative

5-6 pm – Lecture / Meditations In Nature

6-7 pm – Reception

 

Wednesday, March 22

1-2:15 – Ekphrastic Writing Workshop

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The Landscape – National Juried Small Works Exhibition

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The Landscape
National Juried Small Works Exhibition
Juror: John Paul Caponigro, Photographic Visual Artist

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Exhibition Dates: November 26, 2022 – January 16, 2023
Reception: Saturday, November 26, 5-7 pm EST
Meet the Juror and Artists on Zoom: December 14, 7 pm EST – Register Here.

This is our tenth annual Small Works exhibition, and each work is affordably sized 13 inches or smaller for your Holiday gift list.

Our juror selected fifty-seven artworks by forty-six national artists working in photography, painting, and mixed media depicting the theme. These personal vistas of our land world include the expanse of outdoor scenery, varied environments and geography, and natural or man-made related landscape subjects.

About the Gallery Exhibition, The Landscape:
Landscape (noun): a picture representing a view of natural land scenery; the landforms of a region in the aggregate; a portion of territory that can be viewed at one time from one place.

Our national juried exhibition welcomes entries of traditional and alternative photography in color or black & white, photo-based works, paintings, mixed media, and small sculptural works depicting the theme, The Landscape. Our Juror will be looking for thought-provoking, creative works expressing the theme with representational or abstract interpretations showcasing the natural land world, the expanse of outdoor scenery, environments, geography, and natural or man-made related landscape subjects.

Aspects to consider: 

compelling abstraction, dramatic compositions, varied vantage points, detailed lines, shades, textures, rich tones, environmental concerns, and expressive scenes.

Aspects to avoid:
people, animals, sunrises, and sunsets unless the physical Landscape is the main focal point of the image or composition.

Discover more at the Alex Ferrone Gallery.

The Great Animal Orchestra: Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists

The Great Animal Orchestra from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.

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The Great Animal Orchestra on view at The Peabody Essex Museum November 20, 2021 through May 22, 2022

The Peabody Essex Museum and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain are proud to present the North American premiere of The Great Animal Orchestra.

Step into an immersive audio-visual experience that celebrates our planet’s rich biodiversity. Over the course of nearly fifty years, Bernie Krause collected more than 5,000 hours of recordings of natural environments, including at least 15,000 terrestrial and marine species from around the world.

Trained as a musician, Krause found animal vocalizations in the natural world to be akin to musical harmony and orchestral organization. Krause’s soundscapes reveal that within any ecosystem, each species has its own acoustic niche and human activities are increasingly silencing these great animal orchestras. United Visual Artists (UVA) worked with Krause to visualize these recordings as animated spectrograms, which immerse us in the heart of these wild soundscapes. This unique installation makes a plea for preserving the wondrous diversity of the animal world.

The Great Animal Orchestra, a collaboration between Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists, was commissioned in 2016 by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, and is now part of its permanent collection. The exhibition is organized by the Peabody Essex Museum and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.

Exhibit – Worldwide – Cove Street Arts – Portland, Maine

After a year of staying close to home, travel around the world through the photography of twenty-three Maine artists. Curated by Bruce Brown, this exhibition features stunning photographs from every continent but our own. From natural vistas to manmade wonders to intimate glimpses into diverse cultures, the scope of this show is truly Worldwide.

Judith Allen-Efstathiou, Linda Alschuler, Roberta Baumann, Brendan Bullock, John Paul Caponigro, David Clough, Christian T. Farnsworth, Barbara Goodbody, Ella Hudson, Knapp Hudson, Carl Austin Hyatt, Nanci Kahn, Michael Kolster, Dennis Landis, Olga Merrill, K. Min, Munira Naqui, Robert Pennington, Damir Porobic, Ni Rong, Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, David Wade, and Katarina Weslien

See the exhibit in person at Cove Street Arts in Portland, Maine.

Preview the exhibition here.

More Reasons To Visit Midcoast Maine This Weekend

Correspondence - Sonata in Blue -XIX
 

This weekend is a great time to visit Maine!

After you enjoy my special exhibit/event …

Caponigro Arts – New Work / Open Studio

… you’ll have so many more exciting opportunities!

Visit the studios of 5 other artists in Cushing.

Pam Cabanas

Vic Goldsmith

Jody Payne

David Sears

David Vickery

Visit 2 small museums

The Langlais Sculpture Preserve

The Olson House

(where Andrew Wyeth’s iconic Christina’s World was painted).

The Cushing Salt & See Art Tour

It also includes 8 private gardens open to the public.

Pick up a map at the Langlais Sculpture Preserve.

My 4 Current Exhibitions In New England

Revelation XXXIX

You can view my work in 4 exhibitions in Rhode Island and Maine.

Find details about each exhibition here.

Cushing, Maine

Exhibit – New Work | Open Studio – Aug 3 – 4

 

Portland, Maine

Exhibit – Melt Down – Aug 2 – Sep 21

Exhibit – Barbara Goodbody Collection – June 27 – Oct 30

East Greenwich, Rhode Island

Exhibit – The Spell Of The Sensuous – July 25 – Sep 5

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