Light Work Gallery Reception

Gallery Reception This Thursday to celebrate the Prosthesis and Transmedia Photography Annual exhibitions

Gallery Reception: Thursday, January 29, 5-7pm
Exhibitions: Prosthesis, featuring the work of Ellen Garvens; and the Transmedia Photography Annual, featuring work by students in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts


Please join Light Work this Thursday, January 29, from 5-7pm, for a gallery reception to celebrate our current exhibitions. On view at this time are Prosthesis, featuring photographs and sculptures by Ellen Garvens; and the Transmedia Photography Annual, featuring photographs by students in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

In Prosthesis, Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Also on view at this time is the Transmedia Photography Annual, featuring the work of students in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. Artists include Heidi Bungart, Anastasia Collins, Abraham Godfrey, Lizzie Gorfaine, Katherine Huysman, Alex Johnson, Christine Reed Kelley, Jaclyn Lefkowitz, Jessica Magallanes Martinez, Greg Pasternack, and Aaron Siegel.

The gallery reception is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!

[All work by Ellen Garvens, Top to Bottom: Ribcage, Knot, and Pregnant]

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[Image: David Moore, 2007 Light Work Grant recipient]

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