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By Hall Groat II, Section Museums
Posted on Wed Jul 16th, 2003 at 02:41:20 PM GMT
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The Roberson Museum & Science Center will be hosting an innovative and thought provoking art exhibit entitled: Cosmos & Chaos: A Cultural Paradox from February 1 • April 30th, 2004. It will showcase the artwork of several regional artists who have achieved international recognition, including faculty members from Syracuse University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Elmira College, Ithaca College, Binghamton University and Broome Community College.
The museum is also proud to announce that internationally renowned artist, Lucian Freud, will be a featured artist along with critically acclaimed artist Eric Fischl. German-born Freud is the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Robert Hughes, the Australian art critic, described Freud as "the greatest living realist painter." More recently, others have called him "the greatest painter of our time." Mr. Fischl's work helped reinvent the traditional medium of painting with contemporary relevance. Fischl has earned a reputation as a New Image painter of the post-modern movement, where he became known for his psychologically charged paintings - often controversial and provocative.
This event will not only celebrate our regional talent, but also offer our community a rare opportunity to experience the finest living international artists today.
Please visit: www.nyartguide.net/C&C for specific information regarding the exhibition.
The site provides a printable brochure as a .pdf file. Acrobat Reader is needed to open this file. If it is not already installed on your computer a link is provided at the bottom of the homepage for a free download. Please visit the site within the next week to learn about the specific artists included in the exhibition. For information regarding current Roberson Museum exhibitions please visit www.roberson.org
For Further Information Regarding the Exhibition
Hall Groat II, Independent Curator & Artist
E-mail: Hgroat1@stny.rr.com
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"Cosmos & Chaos: A Cultural Paradox"
The Roberson Museum and Science Center in Binghamton, New York presents
"Cosmos & Chaos: A Cultural Paradox" from February 1 - April 30, 2004. A
reception open to the public will be held in the museum's Sears Harkness
Hall on Sunday, February 8th from 2-4 PM. Organized by the Roberson Museum
and Science Center with guest curator Hall Groat II, this exhibition will
feature the work of several contemporary artists and their diverse views on
art. The exhibition is deliberately composed of work that is polarized in
nature, reflecting the diversity in our culture and the need for artists to
convey their viewpoints on the issues of today, such as religion, politics,
and family. The breadth of work presented offers us an opportunity to both
examine and reflect on how the postmodern artist has evolved over the past
few decades. It provides the viewer insight into the meaning behind the art
and the cultural forces that may have influenced the artist.
In the process of making art, the artist struggles with the seemingly
opposing forces that have always existed since the beginning of time-cosmos
and chaos. The general perception is that these forces are always at odds,
but we need to pursue the wider understanding of how they are
interdependent. From a Christian perspective, chaotic events are subsumed
under the wider providence of God. Under Darwinism, the belief is that
nature uses chaos constructively to provide biological systems with access
to new forms. Order and chaos have always been preeminent forces that shape
and define nearly every aspect of life. These omnipresent forces are
present when the artist is faced with life transitions such as birth and
death, with world issues of war and peace, along with the struggles faced in
everyday life. Undoubtedly, our perception affects how we interpret their
art as much as it affects the creative process of making art.
In the exhibit, artists deal with issues of destruction and order. Don
Demauro and Ron Gonzalez, although different in their individual approaches
to creating art, both address the concept of mortality and the passage of
time. More directly, Jerome Witkin confronts mor-tality in an emotional
narrative depicting scenes from the Holocaust. Equally as diverse is the
work of Nancy Ryan and Joy Adams who delve into the world of gender and the
aging process of women. The dynamic abstract paintings of Ib Benoh and
James Bohary are characterized by the search for new reality in a world of
chaos. Perceiving reality in a different way, artists Lucian Freud, Eric
Fischl and Aubrey Schwartz consider the human form, choosing to distort it
to reach their truth. Marc Dennis and Hall Groat II work with metaphorical
imagery that often suggests several paradoxical outcomes. Both Daniel
Mosner and Luvon Sheppard are concerned with achieving a certain presence in
their work that stems from their emotional connection and struggles with the
subject itself. Every artist in this group is uniquely different, but
together as a group is an undeniable synergy.
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