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Art Stroll to feature debut of
film
When the sun sets on Beatty Hughes Park this Friday night, it will be like the dimming lights of a movie theater. And as the projector starts rolling, the storefront windows across the street on the Shirley/Jones Gallery will serve as the screen. In lieu of popcorn, the audience will sip wine as they watch lyrical images of dancing bodies in a video titled “Springs’ Mix” by featured video artist Charles Woodman. The biannual Art Stroll, which take place on June 17 from 6 to 10 p.m., will feature the works of local and nationally recognized artists displayed in local galleries and businesses around the village. The closing event will be a window projection at 10 p.m. on the front of the Shirley/Jones Gallery on Corry Street. The gallery, which features artwork by Charles Woodman and his sister, Francesca Woodman, will host a closing reception for the exhibit from 8 to 11 p.m. Charles Woodman, associate professor of electronic art at the University of Cincinnati, created “Springs’ Mix” in honor of the formative influence his experience as a student at Antioch College had on his art, he said in an interview. Woodman, a 1979 Antioch graduate, is premiering the video in conjunction with the college’s 2005 reunion weekend. Woodman made his film after reviewing a decade worth of his video archives, exploring the movement of dancers that have captured his interest for some years. He creates his pieces by digitally manipulating and editing clips to produce visual patterns and address the passing of time, he said. Two of his untitled wall drawings in the gallery show slow overlapping images moving across flat-screen monitors set in wooden frames. Woodman’s larger installation in the gallery, “American Diorama,” uses five TV monitors to pan across American landscapes. From colorful video images of Pennsylvania prairies and the Colorado Rockies to haunting black and white prints of blurred and hidden female figures, his work and that of Francesca contrast as well as complement each other, Woodman said. According to gallery co-owner Michael Jones, Francesca Woodman used the image of the female body to probe ideas of the psyche and express what it was like to be an intelligent and beautiful female in this culture. Her work became well-known in the 1970s and continued to show in galleries around the world after she took her own life in 1982. The moving and breathing of Charles Woodman’s landscape video reflects an energy and a playful exploration of the digital world, while Francesca Woodman’s photographs are older and express a darkness and a seriousness connected with femininity. But both grew up the children of artists George Woodman and Betty Woodman, and were always compelled to explore the intensity of the gaze and to create art that is lyrical and of the body, Charles Woodman said. This is the first time the two artists’ works have been shown together. |
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