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“STEAM…when science intersects art” showing until July 5
In the Atrium Gallery at the Galleries at Takoma Park, 21 of my Celestial Bodies and all four Pseudomorphs will be on display until July 5. The show is called “STEAM…when science intersects art.” STEAM refers to “Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics.” In a review in the Washington Post of the show “Beyond Layers” at Hillyer Artspace, Mark Jenkins called the Celestial Bodies “striking” and continues: “Whether they’re glimpses of worlds too vast or too tiny for human apprehension, these ‘Celestial Bodies’ fascinate.” I plan to finish all 26 in the series soon and I am looking for a good place to show the complete series. Until then, you can see what I have so far at 7500 Maple Ave, Takoma Park, MD. You can also check out some pictures here on this website. All are for sale (to order) at my public studio, Black Lab, on the Arts Walk at Monroe Street Market, 716 Monroe Street NE, Studio 16, Washington DC. They are $350, plus tax, each with a 10% discount for four or more. You can also email me here to place an order and pay via Paypal. Let me know what you think!
About the Series Jewels
It is a simple thing, but I really enjoy putting two images beside each other and seeing what happens. It reminds my of a Sesame Street bit, with photos arrayed in a grid, and a song playing over it all, “One of these things is not like the others, some of these things are kinda the same…” When we see two images purposely arranged side by side we look for what is similar and what is different. When I started this series, Jewels, I just wanted to put two images together that shared the trait of having some very vivid particular color contrasting with its background. It was only by chance that the “natural vs. human” slipped in, or maybe it was subconscious and not by chance. In another post I will ramble on about how purpose and chance enter into my process, I’ve got to think some more about it…
Eric Hope writes in a review in East City Art: “Artist and photographer Leda Black proved big ideas come in small packages. While her larger images of biomorphic forms beckoned viewers from afar, her tiny diptychs (just a few inches across) hooked the viewer’s attention up close. These small works function both as delightful studies of color and as more wry observations on the ways in which the natural and man-made worlds coalesce.”
These are wee diptychs with each image 4 inches square mounted on a 1.25 inch deep cradled board. The board’s edges are painted in a shade of the named hue and a gloss varnish is brushed over the colored object in the photo. “Jewel” refers to the vivid hue and to the minuteness of the image.
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