EAC Exhibition - Beland Gallery Press Release

[Andre Leroux]

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From: Cathy McLaurin <cathyesse...@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:41 PM
Subject: Exhibition - Beland Gallery Press Release
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Essex Art Center 56 Island St.,Lawrence,MA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact: Cathy McLaurin, Essex Art Center

978-685-2343

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(im)permeable

 

Exhibition dates:  October 26 – November 30, 2012

Opening reception: Friday, October 26  5-7 pm with an artist talk by Laura Fischman at 5 pm

 

The Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery at Essex Art Center is pleased to present (im)permeable, new paintings by Laura Fischman.

 

Laura Fischman’s paintings comprising (im)permeable operate somewhere between landscape and the figure.  Fischman approaches “skin as the source material for abstraction,” and hopes to “… portray skin as space, place and topography, using it as metaphor for our own humanity and the beauty in our imperfections.” (Artist’s statement)

 

Covering and protecting everything inside our body, our skin also operates as a barrier to keep things outside of our body, allowing us to have the sense of touch.  The largest organ in the human body, skin heals itself by forming scar tissue.  “It shows the marks of a life lived – both from the inside out, and the outside in…(providing) a very thin border between the internal and external worlds.”  (Artist’s statement)

 

Fischman’s investigation of skin is as much a psychological one as a physical and metaphorical one, as evidenced through the works’ titles: Morphology, Attack from Within, So Close to the Surface, Cria cuervos y te sacan los ojos (Spanish proverb, loosely translated to: “Raise crows and they peck out your eyes").

 

Laura Fischman’s work has been included in: Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery (2012); Topographies of Space: Between Somewhere and Nowhere, Courtyard Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2012), which she also co-curated; and Profiles of the [dis]connected, Huret & Spector Gallery at Emerson College, Boston (2011), among others.  She is a 2013 Masters in Fine Arts candidate at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

 

 

For additional information about this exhibition or to receive high resolution digital images for publication, please contact Cathy McLaurin cathyessex...@yahoo.com  or  at 978-685-2343.

 

The Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery is located on the first floor of Essex Art Center at 56 Island Street, Lawrence, MA.

Gallery hours:  M-F  10-6

Call for additional evening hours 

Closed November 12 and 21-23

 

www.essexartcenter.com

Essex Art Center

56 Island St.

Lawrence, MA  01840

978-685-2343

 

Special Projects & Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery Director
Essex Art Center
56 Island St.
Lawrence, MA 01840
978-685-2343
www.essexartcenter.com

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