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‘as different as’ night and day

March 05 to April 16, 2011

Opening Reception:
March 5, 2011, 2:30-5:30pm

Artists: Terri Quinn, Roger Chow, Luke Gilliam, Vivian Felsen, Maria Bardowska, Jamie Latrobe, deborah harris

a group show in which artists
paint subjects of their choice
as seen at night and by day

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For this exhibit, artists were asked to paint the same scene by day and by night in order to explore the differences in perception which are shaped by light or its absence.

Is a night scene simply the same scene by day without the clarity of light? In fact, it is not. Light brings out detail, a sense of familiarity and ease. Darkness strips away the detail but also brings a different clarity, of form and shape and contrast, an emotional quality of engaging in something not quite known or knowable.

Some of us are people of the night, able to wait patiently for perception to adjust and penetrate the dark, able to establish a relationship with the night.