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CAMERAWORK GALLERY
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For immediate release: Camerawork, Scranton’s only photography gallery, located in the Marquis Gallery at 515 Center Street, Scranton, PA is proud to present “Still and Silent”, a show of photographs by Ivana Pavelka, Ted Harrison and Costume Designer Marian Wezmar.
Still and Silent, photography exhibit at Camerawork Gallery in Scranton is the result of a loose collaboration between photographer Ivana Pavelka and New Jersey-based photographer Ted Harrison . This exhibit also features current work by costume designer Marian Wezmar.
The exhibit offers the viewer a chance to experience the uncanny way in which these inanimate representations of ourselves are able to bring out a range of emotional responses in us; some immediate and familiar, others somewhat eerie and less distinct.
For both photographers, there is a familiar sense of play in the approach to the mannequins which recalls childlike play with dolls or action figures, though the figures in Still and Silent were arranged by the photographers only through the lens of the camera; otherwise, they remained untouched in the environments in which they were found. Like children’s toys, the mannequins are depicted in various states of care, from lovingly decorated and reverently presented to discarded, disassembled, and broken.
The photographs of the mannequins become collaboration, extending from the person who posed and decorated them, to the photographers who reinterpreted them, and on to the viewer who will take his or her own interpretations with them from photographs.
Marian Wezmar is a fine art student at Keystone College. There she collaborates with members of the theater program to create costumes for their performances. The handmade costumes on exhibit are modern interpretations of figures from Shakespearean literature and ancient Greek culture. Her presentation is more of a direct manifestation of the photographs, in that they are displayed on actual mannequins.
What: Still and Silent exhibit
Who: Ivana Pavelka, Ted Harrison, Marian Wezmar
When: May 2nd- June 1st, 2008
Opening reception: First Friday, May 2nd, 2008 5:30- 7:30pm
Where: Camerawork Gallery, Scranton
more info: www.cameraworkgallery.org 570- 344 3313 570-510-5028
