VOLUNTEER PREVIEW: Friday, June 5, 4-5pm

FIRST SATURDAY RECEPTION: Saturday, June 6, 5-8pm

DISCUSSION WITH THE ARTISTS: Thursday, July 9, 7pm

 

The Arts Center Gallery at 320 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, announces the April 4 opening of Wandering Intention, featuring painters Brian Cirmo, Sergio Sericolo and Deborah Zlotsky.

The Arts Center Gallery at 320 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, announces the June 6 opening of The Space Between, featuring installation artists Barbara Todd and John Yost.

The Space Between is an exhibition that focuses on what is unseen, overlooked, selected and neglected. Both artists deal with the passage of time, creating artwork influenced by the subtle variations on fixed places, ideas or processes.

Barbara Todd, of Montreal and Troy will exhibit an installation from her series, Stone Days, a diary of images created using text as a starting point. Through the influence of the text, Todd created arrangements of stones on a light table that she then photographed and manipulated into drawings, sculpture, prints and quilts. She states: “the layering of these translucent images came to constitute the cumulative quality of presence, of memory dissolving into past days. Sometimes the stones are shapes; sometimes holes. I encourage the quiet stones to blossom.” The result of her efforts is a contemplative space of tenuous arrangements.

John Yost, of Glens Falls, is a filmmaker and photographer. For this exhibition he will be showing a series of photographs of tree stumps. Over the course of a year, Yost isolates tree stumps in the woods that he then photographs throughout the Seasons. After the year is complete, he returns to take the photograph from the starting Season. Despite the effort to maintain the same environment for the photograph, changes have inevitably occurred. It is this inevitable change that fascinates him. He states: “most things in the world look constant, like forgotten tree stumps, but everything changes all the time…nothing ever remains the same.”

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