NYAB Event - "Eye of the Mind: Contemporary Photography by Emerging and Established Artists" Exhibition

"Eye of the Mind: Contemporary Photography by Emerging and Established Artists" Exhibition

Fountain House Gallery

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"The aim of this exhibition is to ask the viewer to re-examine the creative process and mental illness," said Sue Stoffel, curator, art historian, and museum specialist. A former trustee of the Brooklyn Museum and of Creative Time, a program that promotes art in public space, she works with numerous museum education departments in the New York area and raises new resources for inter-museum education collaborations. Continued Stoffel, "Can and how does mental illness define the creative process? If we know beforehand that this is work by people with mental illness, does that change how we look at it? What happens if we mix in works by well-known photographers?" Concluded Stoffel, "In pairing the work of Fountain Gallery artists with that of established photographers of the 20th century, the viewer is asked to ‘see with artists' eyes'; thus the title: Eye of the Mind." Six Fountain Gallery member-artists whose work is defined by the use of a camera will be paired with established artists including Weegee, Lee Friedlander, Morton Bartlett, Richard Shaver, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Hans Bellmer. This pairing reflects the curator's wish to juxtapose similar visual images, so that the viewer sees what the artists saw as they focused their cameras. Reflection, urban grit, and solitude are all revealed."

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