Mandeville Gallery in the Nott Memorial presents the
exhibition An Exact Spectacular – drawings by Ed Rogers and sculpture
by Henry Turner.
The opening reception is Tuesday, Sept. 28, at 4:30 p.m.
with curator David Greenberger, a writer, publisher and collector from
Greenwich, N.Y.
Included are about 120 drawings by Rogers and 49
small-scale wood sculptures by Turner. Both are “self-taught” or
“outsider” artists with no formal artistic training; their
motivation and frame of reference differ considerably from that of
mainstream, schooled artists. Both men are in their 70s; Rogers lives in a
nursing home near Boston, and Turner was last known to be living in
Schenectady.
Greenberger, called a “stand-up sociologist”
by Rolling Stone magazine, has spent two decades recording
observations and comments by nursing home residents and publishing them in
his magazine The Duplex Planet. He also has been a commentator on
National Public Radio's All Things Considered.