Th3 Event: Introducing Your Work to the World
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 TONIGHT
Thursday, October 16, 5:30pm
Please join Light Work for a special Th3 event TONIGHT, October 16 at 5:30pm! New Assistant Director Mary Goodwin will give helpful hints and pointers on how to talk effectively about your work for different audiences. This brief presentation begins at 5:30 and will be followed by an informal portfolio review session.
This event is a must-attend for artists who want to learn how to explain their work in a clear and confident way. Goodwin will show artists how to speak to different people or groups, from neighbors to museum and gallery curators, about their images or projects.
Goodwin is a photographer, writer, and editor. Her most recent photographic work, Site Line, was featured in the exhibition Land Rites at Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe; an image from Goodwin's series Auto Obscura appeared in Art in America as part of its 2005 Summer Preview. She holds an MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; a BFA in photography from Herron School of Art, Indianapolis; and a BA in German literature from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
[Image by Mary Goodwin]
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Last Week to View the Walk #1 exhibition at Light Work
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 Exhibition: Walk #1
Artist: Ernesto Pujol
Dates: August 25-October 23, 2008
Location: Light Work, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244
Make sure to visit Light Work in the next week to view our exhibition, Walk #1, featuring the work of Ernesto Pujol. The exhibition closes on Thursday, October 23, and you don't want to miss it!
The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. As Pujol walks, the images develop a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."
 In addition to the images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn by Pujol in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery.
Pujol grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.
See this week's Syracuse New Times for an article by Carl Mellor about the exhibition. Also, see the Stars section of the The Post-Standard from Sunday, September 21 for an article about the exhibition by Katherine Rushworth.
[Images by Ernesto Pujol]
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