The Black & White Show

Albany Center Gallery is pleased to present The Black & White Show, an exhibition featuring eight regional artists who explore form and content using a neutral palette. The exhibition opens on July 8 and will run through August 22, 2014 (please note our summer hours Tue. - Fri., noon- 5 p.m., sorry for any inconvenience, with an artists' reception to be held from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. on Friday, July 11.

There are significant differences between images in color and images in black and white. What happens when art is drained of color? Does the content of the work change, or simply the aesthetic? The Black & White Show will immerse the audience in the multifaceted potential of art in monochrome. Media will include ink, watercolor, video, acrylics, photography, and fiber. The show was co-curated by the ACG Executive Director Tony Iadicicco and board member David Brickman, a longtime curator and critic.

By emphasizing the relationship between the mechanics of design and structure, floral designer Evan Euripidou creates works that incorporate the space and interact with the viewer, inciting a highly memorable and lasting impression.

Painter Scott Nelson Foster focuses on the American experience and its relationship to the changing rural landscape, resulting in works that convey complex narratives even with fragmentary visions.

John Hampshire’s intricate and maze-like Sharpie compositions consist of fractured and reassembled pictures that render newly imagined landscapes. Hampshire skillfully and effectively conflates Cubist principles with automatic drawing techniques.

Through sound and video, collaborative unit Blacklight Lighthouse edits carefully orchestrated or casually discovered visual patterns into hypnotic imagery. The effects of these edits are often dramatic, comedic, abstract, and psychedelic.

Willie Marlowe, a painter whose works are informed by travel to museums and archaeological sites in Europe, the Yucatan and Russia, crafts intimately-scaled acrylic paintings on paper, and then builds them into larger modular installations.

A creator of “mark” drawings in ink, David McDonald organizes his works around simple yet enigmatic patterns that induce introspection and contemplation, often incorporating cryptic references to the printed word.

The silver gelatin prints of Theresa Swidorski, made in a traditional darkroom, concentrate on captured moments in quiet places, evoking nostalgia and dream-like reminiscence.

Noted for her innovative, quilted textile works, Barbara Todd combines a minimalist aesthetic with a poetic and politicized sensibility in works inspired by children’s drawings, poems, seaside pebbles and the everyday.

The Black and White Show will run from July 8 to August 22, 2014 (please note our summer hours Tue. - Fri., noon- 5 p.m., sorry for any inconvenience) at Albany Center Gallery, 39 Columbia Street, Albany, N.Y. The public is invited to attend the opening reception from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. on Friday, July 11.