January, 2007

Joining Forces

This month's exhibition is entitled "Joining Forces" and it is held in conjunction with Ithaca's Light in Winter Festival. Most gallery members will be participating in this show and the theme -- joining the forces of art and science -- will be interpreted broadly and individually by each artist. Some work will be collaborations with acquaintances or friends who work in the sciences. Some work will be inspired by individual interest in a scientific force or subject.

Margy Nelson Zhabotinsky Soup

Miri Amihai -- Baile Ale en Quito Ecuador con Oma

Eva Capobianco -- Electric Blue Power Worship (left)

Jan Kather

Sheryl Sinkow Bones of Hyde Park Mastodon		Diana Ozolins HIghbanks upstream (Fall Creek)
The opening reception for "Joining Forces" will be Friday, January 26 from 5-7pm to coordinate with Light in Winter activities. Show dates are January 5-29, 2007.		Elisabeth Gross-Marks High Wire Act

Jay Hart, Western Rift
56 x 36, East and Central Africa

A crescent of big lakes and bounding faults (in western Uganda, and parts of Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania) makes a puzzle which had confused the leaders of science for more than a half century in the 1800's. Risings on the valley's shoulders turned out to be the compressions from a push-pull series of movements which today gives a relatively open rift floor. This is interrupted by an arch in the floor's level from top to bottom, and by the imposition of both the Virunga volcanoes and upfaulted blocks like the Ruwenzori of uppermid-right, whose three mile high summits are given a fine alternate name: the Mountains of the Moon.

 
This exhibit is funded in part by a grant from the New York
State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program.