The Collective: Face It (Portraits/Self-Portraits)
Show Dates: July 10th, 2021 - August 7th, 2021
Opening Reception: July 10th, 2021 4:00pm-7:00pm
ZOOM ARTIST TALK: July 15th, 2021 Thursday at 5:30pm
Sign-up to meet the Collective members and discuss their work. HERE
Escondido's Arts Event, 2nd
Saturday: July 10th, 2021 4pm-7pm
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Director’s Statement:
To Make a Portrait is Not a Frivolous Endeavor.
An artist’s goal when making a portrait is fundamentally to tell a story. Often, a photographer seeks to reveal some objective truth of the person that stands before the camera. Just as often (and sometimes simultaneously) emotions enter the equation and a fiction is created. As a photographer and subject hover between objectivity and subjectivity, a collaboration is formed. In the resulting portrait, can we recognize how much of the image is the person who is photographed and how much of it is the photographer? Is it truth or fiction? In the end, it left to the viewer to interpret and resolve the question.
A Self-Portrait is Separate and Distinct.
This is a supremely personal action between between cold, unaware device and flesh and heart. The artist’s decision in a self portrait is whether or not to reveal their own truth and how to accomplish this. The process is not an easy one and begets emotions that are often difficult to manage. It can be an unsteady adventure of discovery. It can be sheer terror. The resulting persona that the viewer experiences is completely and wholly the photographer’s choice.
As you look at the photographs in this exhibition of Portraits and Self-Portraits, consider what the artist is saying with their images. Are they speaking truth or creating fiction? And what is your reaction?
Donna Cosentino
Director
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OUR COLLECTIVE IS:
TERRY SCOTT ALLEN ï ROBERT BARRY ï BARBARA BECK ï GRANT BRITTAIN ï DONNA COSENTINO ï STEPHEN DAVIS ï CARLA De DOMINICISï DEB HELLMAN ï BOB AND SUSAN HILL ï EMILY KIM ï ANDREA MATTHIES ï BRANDY SEBASTIAN ï TOM VANCISIN ï KEIKO YAMASAKI ï BOB YOUNGER
Please contact Donna Cosentino for private Social Distance tours.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 11-5 OR you may make an appointment to view our exhibitions.
+Gallery visits for individuals or classes are also available by appointment.
+There is no charge to visit and there is free parking in front and behind the gallery space.
CLICK ON IMAGE TO VIEW EACH GALLERY
Show Dates: July 10th, 2021 - August 7th, 2021
Opening Reception: July 10th, 2021 4:00pm-7:00pm
ZOOM ARTIST TALK: July 15th, 2021 Thursday at 5:30pm
Sign-up to meet the Collective members and discuss their work. HERE
Escondido's Arts Event, 2nd
Saturday: July 10th, 2021 4pm-7pm
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Director’s Statement:
To Make a Portrait is Not a Frivolous Endeavor.
An artist’s goal when making a portrait is fundamentally to tell a story. Often, a photographer seeks to reveal some objective truth of the person that stands before the camera. Just as often (and sometimes simultaneously) emotions enter the equation and a fiction is created. As a photographer and subject hover between objectivity and subjectivity, a collaboration is formed. In the resulting portrait, can we recognize how much of the image is the person who is photographed and how much of it is the photographer? Is it truth or fiction? In the end, it left to the viewer to interpret and resolve the question.
A Self-Portrait is Separate and Distinct.
This is a supremely personal action between between cold, unaware device and flesh and heart. The artist’s decision in a self portrait is whether or not to reveal their own truth and how to accomplish this. The process is not an easy one and begets emotions that are often difficult to manage. It can be an unsteady adventure of discovery. It can be sheer terror. The resulting persona that the viewer experiences is completely and wholly the photographer’s choice.
As you look at the photographs in this exhibition of Portraits and Self-Portraits, consider what the artist is saying with their images. Are they speaking truth or creating fiction? And what is your reaction?
Donna Cosentino
Director
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
OUR COLLECTIVE IS:
TERRY SCOTT ALLEN ï ROBERT BARRY ï BARBARA BECK ï GRANT BRITTAIN ï DONNA COSENTINO ï STEPHEN DAVIS ï CARLA De DOMINICISï DEB HELLMAN ï BOB AND SUSAN HILL ï EMILY KIM ï ANDREA MATTHIES ï BRANDY SEBASTIAN ï TOM VANCISIN ï KEIKO YAMASAKI ï BOB YOUNGER
Please contact Donna Cosentino for private Social Distance tours.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 11-5 OR you may make an appointment to view our exhibitions.
+Gallery visits for individuals or classes are also available by appointment.
+There is no charge to visit and there is free parking in front and behind the gallery space.
CLICK ON IMAGE TO VIEW EACH GALLERY
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