Schenectady, N.Y. (April 17, 2002) – Orchestrated Objects, a two-person contemporary photography show, brings together the elegant poetic and revelatory work of American photographers Jed Devine and Abelardo Morell. The opening reception will take place at the Mandeville Gallery, on the Union College campus, Monday,
April 22 at 5 p.m. Following the reception, at 6 p.m. photographer Jed
Devine will give a gallery talk.
Devine makes luminous photographs
printed on translucent rag paper coated with a platinum/palladium emulsion.
This nineteenth-century technique results in a painterly surface that is soft and velvety.
Morell's crisp, clear, silver
gelatin photographs introduce us to a world of unexpected scale, extraordinary
points of view, and startling juxtapositions. Morell's camera obscura photographs capture, using contemporary techniques, a pre-photographic technique dating back centuries.
Both artists demonstrate how
technology of the past can create work very much of the present. This
exhibition highlights the way each artist, through the virtuosic arrangement of objects, reveals what is exceptional in the every day world, transforming and redefining that world for us.
For Calendar Listings:
Exhibition: Orchestrated
Objects
Photographs by Jed Devine and
Abelardo Morell
Date: March 29 – May 19, 2002
Place: Nott Memorial, Union College
Gallery Hours: Monday – Thursday: 9am – 10pm; Friday: 9am – 5pm; Saturday: noon – 5pm;
Sunday: noon – 10 pm
Opening Reception: Monday April 22, at 5pm
Followed by a gallery talk with Jed Devine at 6 pm
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Information: (518) 388-6729