Josephy Center Exhibit: "Black & White"

The Josephy Center is honored to present a new exhibition, “Black and White” opening Saturday, February 7 at 7 p.m. The show presents more than 20 artists and photographers from around the Northwest.
 
The works on display comprise of a diverse array of drawings, paintings, sculptures, prints and photography that evoke a distinct vocabulary of mass, line, texture, form, and value through an innovative handling of black and white as it’s main attribute.
 
What is the allure of artwork and photography that uses only black and white?  Curator Kendrick Moholt comments “Tone is a powerful visual language that emphasizes form.  It can evoke a unique emotion.  Color is powerful but at times it can be distracting from the subject.  When you remove color; the subject, the composition and the vocabulary totally change and boldly invites a view of the subject's essence whether it’s a two or three dimensional art.”
 
Among the artists showing, there are 10 photographers; one of which is from Portland, MC Reardon who is a visual artist and a poet, as well as a high school student from La Grande, Alicia Wight.  We have several pencil and charcoal artists such as Kirk Skovlin, Sam Collett, and more.
  Also, lithograph artists such as Keith Kirts, ceramicists, Jennifer Hawkins-Connolly and pen and ink illustrations by Kate Wheeler and Maggie Lynn Holcomb, painters Jennifer Klimzsa and Leslie LeViner, and more.
 
Also through the month, we will host a LIVE AND UP FRONT, the Josephy Center’s artist lecture series we will be hosting photographer, Kendrick Moholt on Tuesday, February 10 at 7 p.m.  Kendrick will give a slide presentation and demonstration to discuss what attracts him to black and white photography.
 
Rich and the Brown Bag Lunch are adopting the “Black and White” theme with guest Stephen Kliewer, the Director of the Wallowa Valley Mental Health on February 10 at noon. That discussion will revolve around racial history and the changes in definitions and understanding of “black and white.” On February 17, Mike Kolaski will demonstrate sketching in black and white.
 
Lastly, the Josephy Center will host one film on Thursday February 19 at 7,  “Finding Vivian Maier”, a documentary film about a mysterious woman who was a nanny on the North Shore, an affluent neighborhood near Chicago.  On her days off she would take to the Chicago streets and take photographs with her twin lens camera.  She took time off and traveled around the world photographing in New York, Manila, Bangkok, Shanghai, Beijing, India and more.  In 2007, two years before her death, a storage facility auctioned the contents that comprised more than 100,000 negatives, prints and slides that had never been seen by anyone.  A Chicago historian and collector John Maloof purchased the collection and has been showing the photos in exhibits and online.
Please contact Cheryl Coughlan if you have any questions at 541-432-0505