Tuesday, June 03, 2008
BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION - June 11 - July 18, 2008
ANN KIRCHNER EXHIBITS PORTRAITS OF AMBIGUITY AT BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER GALLERY
Brighton artist Ann Kirchner shows faces that elude and confront.
(BROOKLINE, MA: May 29, 2008) – Ann Kirchner loves the medium of pastels. A mainstay of rococo portraits and Degas ballet scenes, pastels appeal to her for the manner in which atmospheric space is created with a thickly colored surface. With their heavily layered strokes of pigment on coarse watercolor paper, Kirchner’s portraits resist stasis: they waver and elude the viewer within an implied space.
“The pastel medium is essentially dust,” explains Kirchner. “It speaks to impermanence, so my images are veiled and play with atmospheric space. The women I depict remain in limbo: on the edge of becoming…or on the verge of disappearing altogether.”
The Brookline Arts Center will feature Kirchner’s pastel drawings in Ann Kirchner: Portraits and Pages, from June 11 - July 18, 2008 in the Brookline Arts Center gallery.
An artist’s reception will be held Friday, June 27, from 6 – 8 p.m. and is free to the public. The Brookline Arts Center is located at 86 Monmouth St. in Brookline. For more information, call 617-566-5715 or visit www.brooklineartscenter.com . The reception and exhibition are wheelchair accessible.
This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the Brookline Commission for the Arts, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. The Brookline Arts Center is also supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Brighton artist Ann Kirchner shows faces that elude and confront.
(BROOKLINE, MA: May 29, 2008) – Ann Kirchner loves the medium of pastels. A mainstay of rococo portraits and Degas ballet scenes, pastels appeal to her for the manner in which atmospheric space is created with a thickly colored surface. With their heavily layered strokes of pigment on coarse watercolor paper, Kirchner’s portraits resist stasis: they waver and elude the viewer within an implied space.
“The pastel medium is essentially dust,” explains Kirchner. “It speaks to impermanence, so my images are veiled and play with atmospheric space. The women I depict remain in limbo: on the edge of becoming…or on the verge of disappearing altogether.”
The Brookline Arts Center will feature Kirchner’s pastel drawings in Ann Kirchner: Portraits and Pages, from June 11 - July 18, 2008 in the Brookline Arts Center gallery.
An artist’s reception will be held Friday, June 27, from 6 – 8 p.m. and is free to the public. The Brookline Arts Center is located at 86 Monmouth St. in Brookline. For more information, call 617-566-5715 or visit www.brooklineartscenter.com
This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the Brookline Commission for the Arts, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. The Brookline Arts Center is also supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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