MEDIA CONTACT: Carol Lewis
561-297-0245, clewis36@fau.edu
JUPITER, FL (November 5, 2009
)
– Florida Atlantic University’s John D. MacArthur Campus
Library Gallery is hosting “Place to Place,” a site specific
exhibition by photographer Robert Farber, and “Under the
Surface,” an exhibition featuring a series of mixed media on
poplar panels by artist Jennifer Palmer. The exhibits both will
run through Friday, December 18 at 5353 Parkside Drive, FAU’s
Jupiter campus.
The exhibitions kick off the gallery’s fifth season of
presenting museum quality contemporary art exhibitions and help
to further extend the gallery’s mission to engage the community
in dialogue.
“Place to Place” was
selected from several hundred entries in response to the
gallery’s open call for contemporary artists. The exhibit features 12 images that
reflect the visual and conceptual “gems” that Farber, a
professor at Ringling College of Art and Design, discovered
during his six round-trip field expeditions between Sarasota
and Jupiter.
Farber used these 331-mile round trips to gather
drawing, photographic and technical information. He shot more than 300 images and
narrowed the images to the 12 in the exhibition. The exhibition
features mixed-media with digital images, collage and
drawing/painting elements that reflect his experiences during
the trips.
“I wanted to build a series of images that would initiate a
conversation about the experience of traveling or having
traveled between the populated coasts of Florida,” said
Farber.
Farber recorded the original image while holding a camera at
arm’s length pointed toward the passing scene across the
interior of his car and out the window. He used auto focus and
would often re-shoot a scene that interested him on two or
three different trips. Some of the images captured views Farber
selected or places he researched and wished to
document.
Diane Arrieta, the gallery’s exhibition
coordinator, said Farber’s work is especially interesting
because it is regional specific.
“It gives us a
feeling of home and belonging in these types of urban sprawl
and unbridled commercialism,” she said. “His style and
technique are very high quality. It offers a variety of media
and techniques that will provide students an understanding of
current practices in contemporary art.”
The installation for
“Under the Surface”has 60 pieces. The mediums include an
initial ink drawing, and then the pieces are completed with
combinations of various layers of ink, watercolor and acrylic
slowly built up onto the surface of the piece allowing parts of
the ink drawing to be exposed.
“I have always had an urge to create since I
was a child,” said Palmer, who teaches studio classes and art
at Jefferson Community and Technical College in Louisville,
Kentucky. “I found it to be an internal drive to be always
creating and expressing these images and feelings that I
experienced and translating them into the work.’’
Palmer’s work is influenced by location and she is
motivated to paint by expressing the events that she
experiences in her daily life.
“I paint from the rural setting
of my studio and incorporate these environments into the
artwork and filter these images through memories and dreams to
capture a sense of a place,’’ said Palmer, a Simpsonville,
Kentucky resident. “It is about creating fictional realities
that capture a sense of whimsy and wonderment of what surrounds
me and the final result is the creation of
dreamscapes.”
“Jennifer’s
work for this show is small, but shows a lot of movement,’’
said Arrieta. “Her pieces are very involved.”
Library hours are Sundays from 12:30 to 9 p.m.; Monday through
Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m. and Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Call 561-799-8530
or visit www.library.fau.edu/npb/npb.htm.
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Cutlines:
Photo
#1: “Remnant of Charley, 2004, SR 72E,”
mixed media on BRF gray paper.
Photo
#2: “Fictional
Realities,” mixed media on poplar panel, by Jennifer Palmer,
2007.
About Florida
Atlantic University:
FAU’s MacArthur Campus in
Jupiter offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate
degree programs. The campus is home to the Harriet L.
Wilkes Honors College, the Lifelong Learning Society, the
Scripps Florida research facilities and the future site of the
Max Planck Florida Institute.
Florida Atlantic University
opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in
Florida. Today, the University serves more than 28,000
undergraduate and graduate students on seven campuses. Building
on its rich tradition as a teaching university, with a
world-class faculty, FAU hosts 10 colleges: College of
Architecture, Urban & Public Affairs, Dorothy F. Schmidt
College of Arts & Letters, the Charles E. Schmidt College
of Biomedical Science, the College of Business, the College
of Education, the College of Engineering &
Computer Science, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the
Graduate College, the Christine E. Lynn College of
Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of
Science.
