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Re: [BKARTS] JOHANNE RENBECK EXH OPENS AT BRIGHT HILL LITERARY CENTER TREADWELL NY
Dear Book Artists,
Don't forget - this Sunday, May 4, from 3-5 p.m., Bright Hill Literary
Center (in Treadwell, NY, in the Catskills), opens Staatsburg, NY artist
Johanne Renbeck's "Portolani: Maps of a Journey," an installation with
poetry. At 4 p.m. Ms. Renbeck will give an artist's talk and discussion. The
exhibit will remain open through May 23. Gallery hours are Monday & Tuesay,
10 am - 4 pm, Wednesday, 9 am - noon, and by appointment. Bright Hill is
located at 94 Church Street, Treadwell, one block north of Barlow's General
Store. The reception is free and open to the public.
"Portolani" is a suspended array of 15 maps made in the manner
of portolani, old maps of exploration that include text and illustration,
and feature first-hand knowledge of new lands as well as sometimes fanciful
speculation about uncharted territory. Each page of the array is a map
painted on drafting film 24" wide by 19" high. The land mass of each map is
a woman's torso. A poem is written in the ocean areas of each map. Seen
whole, the installation winds a serpentine path through the gallery,
suggestive of currents and waves. The motion and the play of light are
important elements in this account of journey. The poems of journey were
written over ten months near the artist's home, in Duchess County.
Directly behind each map hangs a sheet of unpainting drafting film with
ovate leaf shapes cut into it. Viewers map step into the spaces between the
maps. Also shown in the exhibit are artist's books relating to the show.
After earning her BA from the University of Rochester, Johanne
Renbeck studied painting and drawing at RIT, at Bard College, and at the
Santa Fe Art Institute. She has devoted independent study to the arts and
mythology of northern Europe and Egypt and has taken courses in Egyptian
hieroglyphics, and has studied book arts at Women's Studio Workshop in
Rosendale. Her monoprint collages were published in Cait Johnson's "Cooking
Like a Goddess." Renbeck has received grants form the Dutchess County Art
Association for community and arts-in-education projects. Recent exhibits in
the Hudson Valley include solo shows of artist's books and related
installations at St. Thomas Aquinas College and at Greene County Council on
the ARts. Her book "Rearranging" was juried into the Bright Hill North
American Book Arts Exhibit in 2006. In 2007 she created and performed "Bears
and Dreams," a performance and installation piece based on poetry she wrote
in response to 21 consecutive nights of powerful dreams.
Bright Hill Center's 2008 programs are made possible, in part,
by the York State Council on
the Arts, the A. Lindsay and Olive B.O'Connor Foundation, the Otis A.
Thompson Foundation, the Dewar Foundation, the A. C. Molinari Foundation,
the Delaware National Bank of Delhi, Stewart's Shops, area businesses, and
its members and friends. Bright Hill's Community Library & Internet Wing,
which features a large collection of art and art-related volumes, is free
and open to the public, is open Monday- Tuesday, 10 am - 4 pm Wednesday, 9
am - noon, and by appointment. For further information and for information
about Bright Hill Pressand its programs, contact Bright Hill Center at 607-
829-5055 or email the Center at wordthur@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Word Thursdays/Bright Hill Press
Where Literature Lives!
94 Church Street, POB 193
Treadwell, NY 13846-0193
web site: http://www.brighthillpress.org ;
e-mail: wordthur@xxxxxxxxxxxx
And don't forget to visit http://www.nyslittree.org,
The Gateway to the Literary New York !
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