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still.life
photography:
RAYMON ELOZUA
sculpture:
TRACY HENEBERGER
at
art sites
651 West Main Street
(Route 25), Riverhead, New York 11901 T: 631- 591-2401
http://www.artsitesgallery.com
Date: November
22, 2008 – January 11, 2009
Reception Saturday, November
22, 5-7 PM
Gallery Hours: Thursday
–Sunday, 12-5 PM.
For
group tour information and additional hours call 631-591-2401
Still life, a 17th
century genre popularized by the Little Dutch Masters, elevated
the natural world and stuff of everyday life to the level of fine art. still.life, a new exhibition at art sites, features works by two contemporary
artists who consider the subject from the perspective of a new millennium.
Tracy Heneberger’s sculpture starts with organic or mineral
forms – stones, plants and animal remains – that he transforms by either using
the natural forms as the spine of his sculptures or expanding his media to
include bronze and aluminum castings. His
beautiful abstractions resonate with the order and sequence of the natural
world and are a compelling reminder that human creativity is but an extension
of creation and natural selection, all of it, by every measure, frail and in
jeopardy. This exhibit surveys works by
Mr. Heneberger from 2001-2008. A resident of New York City, he has exhibited
and cast bronze in China since 1998. United States venues include Museum of New
Art, Detroit, Bronx River Art Center and Exit Art in New York City. Heneberger
is a recent winner of a Gottlieb Founcation Individual Support Grant.
Raymon Elozua is a photographer and ceramic sculptor who has
for more than 30 years been concerned with the deterioration of manmade objects
from our industrial past. The photographs featured in this exhibition focus on
the mundane, everyday objects that once strained, boiled and served home cooked
meals. Once spotless enamel pots, strainers, and serving platters, now pitted,
cracked, and rusted, are resurrected by Mr. Elozua. He rearranges these relics
of bygone days into joyous visual compositions that celebrate their beautiful
shapes, colors and textures as well as the people who once used them. His numerous
solo shows include a retrospective at the Mint Museum, Garth Clark Gallery,
University of Arizona Museum of Art and OK Harris Gallery in New York City. A
winner of three NEA fellowships, his works are in major public, corporate and
private collections, including the LA County Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine
Arts Houston, and Cranbrook Academy Art Museum.