Vision & Discovery, an exhibition of works by photographers Michael Hochanadel, Gail Nadeau, Lou Snitkoff, Marie Triller and Mark Van Wormer, opens Friday, Feb. 11, at Union College's Arts Atrium.
The show, free and open to the public, will have an opening reception on Thursday, Feb. 17, from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
The exhibition contains 50 photographs. It was curated by Martin Benjamin, professor of photography at Union College.
Gallery hours are daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 388-6714.
Hochanadel lives in Schenectady and works as a senior consultant with Sawchuk, Brown Associates in Albany and as a contributing writer for The Daily Gazette, where his column about popular music has appeared weekly for many years. His pictures are made with a 4×5-inch view camera and black and white film and are about his family and friends. He has received numerous awards for his photography and work on public relations and development projects.
Nadeau is an Albany photographer and will be exhibiting 18×20-inch color prints, mostly comprised of recent work about girls from the ages 6 to 10 years. She has exhibited her photographs in 13 one-person shows and has received many awards for her work. In 1991 she was the recipient of a Photographers' Fund Fellowship from the Center for Photography in Woodstock, New York. Her previous one-person exhibitions have included the Center Galleries, Siena College and Russell Sage College.
Snitkoff lives in Schenectady where his serious pursuit of photography began while he was a student at Union College. His work has previously been exhibited at Union, the Schenectady Museum and other venues including last year's one-person show at Nisk-Art Gallery at Niskayuna High School. He has been a very active member of the Schenectady Photographic Society. His primary interests in photography include color landscape, architecture and studio still life. Although he excludes people from these images, “visual clues within the scenes speak clearly of a human presence,” he says.
Triller exhibits her work both regionally and in national group shows. Her photographs have been exhibited in New York City including one-person exhibits at both Synchronicity Space and Gallery 402 and group exhibitions at the National Arts Club, Soho 20 Gallery, and the Westbeth Gallery. Triller has a master of fine arts degree from SUNY New Paltz and has work included in the collection of the Women in Photography Archive in California. She has taught photography at Voorheesville High School, Union College, Albany College of Pharmacy and other places. She will be showing recent color work in this exhibition.
Van Wormer teaches art and photography at the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York. He has received awards for his photography including the 1998 Photography Regional at the Center Galleries, which was judged by photographer Thomas Roma. He often utilizes an inexpensive “toy camera” and makes his pictures in black and white.