2006 - 2007 Lockhart Gallery Exhibition Schedule
SPRING 2007
Alumni Scene: Enid Crow - Lori Barrett '89 (January 18 - February 16)
Artist's talk in the gallery:
Over the past 17 years, Enid Crow has taken and colelcted thousands of photographs of herself. Influences in Crow's current body of work include news photographs of survivors fleeing the World Trade Center attack, feminist cultural criticism, and writing on gender, photographers likeCindy Sherman and Nikki S. Lee, fashion and uniforms, and nightmares. Members of the SUNY Geneseo community may remember Crow as Lori Barrett who earned a BA in Drama from Geneseo in 1989. She went on to earn an MA in Performance and Theater from Northwestern University, an M.Ed in Education from the University of Florida, and a JD from the NYU School of Law. During the day, as Lori Barrett, she works as a governement lawyer.
Re - live the 60's in Lockhart Gallery's exhibit celebrating one of the most important and influential of American music groups: The Supremes. This collection, amassed by SUNY Geneseo alum, Tom Ingrassia, includes orginal photographs, records, record covers, films, trade ads, newspaper & magazine clippings, and promotional material follows The Supremes through their first attempts to "make - it" as teenagers to world-wide fame just a few years later.
Tom graduated from SUNY Geneseo in 1974 with a degree in history, and in 1975 earned a master's degree in history from the University of Connecticut. Tom first caught The Supremes fever during their performance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 and has been an avid fan and collector ever since. In 2000, Tom left his 25 year career in academia to pursue his dreams of a career in the entertainment industry. He is the owner and creative director of TIngrassia Entertainment which specializes in celebrity management, merchandise development and marketing and writing. For more information on Tom's inspirational journey into the career of his dreams, visit his personal web page here: www.ingrassiaproductions.com.
Michael Teres is a Professor of Art at SUNY Geneseo, where he has been teaching for forty years. He received his B.A. in Art from Hunter College in New York City, and his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. His photograph are in fourteen major collections, some of the most notable are: The Houston Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Chrysler Museum in Norfolk Virginia, and The Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville South Carolina. College and University collections include The Snite Museum at the University of Notre Dame, The College of Architecture in Clemson, South Carolina, The University of Nebraska, SUNY Brockport, and the Ryerson Museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Michael Teres is also in the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the Ivan Dimitri Collection.
His work is published in several books: Black and White Photography: An International Collection by James Luciana, Darkroom Photography, Vol. 10 Number 1., and Photography by Phil Davis. His work is published in many catalogs, ad he has received numerous grants and Awards. The list of exhibitions of Teres work is extensive. He has also written about photography and has five articles published in Books and Journals.
This exhibit begins with a few student pieces from 1966, when he was strictly working in back and white, dip and dunk photography. The earlier images are figurative. Teres then moves to a combination of figure and landscape, and in the later images to what might, by a stretch of a definition, be called “Still Life Objects” infused by light. We can see the experimentation with photographic reticulation, which moves many images to the edge of abstraction. These are the melted images of the 1970’s and 1980’s, work which is influenced by surrealism, and an interest in both the possibilities of the processes of photography as well as the image product.
In the 1990’s, Teres begins to work in color, but not exactly color photography. He devised a laborious process of manipulating the negative, applying colors to the emulsion which, when printed, emerge as the complementary, or opposite color. This process demands a pre-visualization of the image, rather than an attempt to capture a reality photographically. Teres says of his work: I have been photographing since I was a child, more than fifty years. I am fascinated by the ephemeral quality of light, and how it can change an image from second to second. The photographic process dematerializes imagined reality, and the digital image moves it to an alternate reality. I try to incorporate the knowledge of a non-material based mode of artistic production into the actual making and the final appearance of my images.” The work sometimes hints at process more that product, but there is always the fascination with the quality of light striking solid substances in the real world and how quickly our convictions of that solidity can disappear into alternate images and realities.
While on sabbatical in the 1990’s Michael Teres began to study digital photography, and has been working in computer photography ever since. In these images, the suggestion of alternate realities based on humble settings changed by light is very powerful.
The image reproduced here is a digital image of the Dining Room Table in his home, after the dinner is over, before the objects are put away. This image is the first digital photograph taken into the collection by the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
Michael Teres lives in Geneseo in a house he and his wife Rosemary have been changing for thirty-five years. Rosemary Teres is a retired Professor of Art from Wells College. They have two children, two grandchildren and have been married for forty-four years. And both of them hope to see you on the 21st of April, at the fortieth year retrospective in the SUNY Geneseo Galleries.
Article written by Rosemary Welsh (Teres), PhD