Cynthia Penter - Deborah Pinter - Daiv Whaley
Flower Power!
May 2, 2014 – June 15, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, May 2, 2014 - 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm
The Maria Neil Art Project is excited to welcome spring with a special exhibition focusing on the beauty and power of flowers.
Flower Power! features the work of three Cleveland area photographers – Cynthia Penter, Deborah Pinter and Daiv Whaley. In addition, the show will include an original floral sculpture by Moe Dixon, a special spring celebration, and a unique opportunity for the community to participate in the exhibition.
Flowers have an alluring, almost alarming power over us. Their beauty is something that can seem so perfect that it is hard to imagine that they are, in fact, very real.
Daiv Whaley uses angles, close-ups, light intensity, intentional blurriness and his own manipulations in his Polaroid images. For more than 21 years, Whaley has been capturing natural beauty with a sci-fi aesthetic.
Cynthia Penter loves the relationship between people and flowers. Her film emulsion and digital portraits do not just feature flowers, but also people interacting with them. Through her photographs she explores the usage, meaning and symbolism of flowers in our lives. They make you wonder, just what is the purpose of flowers? Why do they exist – and why do they hold such a power over us?
Deborah Pinter creates her Scanagrams by digitally scanning flowers, using software to manipulate her imagery, and printing the photographs on lustrous polymer sheets. With their sharp forms and spare backgrounds, Pinter’s floral images resemble Victorian-era cyanotypes and early-twentieth-century photograms—camera-less photographs that were made by placing botanical specimens or other objects directly onto light-sensitive paper that was then exposed to light. Pinter’s more recent Flower series depicts single specimens in tight focus against dark backgrounds. Blossoms seem to materialize just beneath the surface of each image, where they are raked by intense light.
On Sunday, May 18, the Flower Power Spring Celebration will be held at the gallery and in other areas in the Waterloo Arts District. The event will be a family-friendly celebration of spring that will include refreshments for adults and children, a flower making party, a neighborhood flower planting and a ‘sky garden’ flower release. The event will begin at 12:00 noon.
The exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, May 2, 2014 from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm as part of the Waterloo Arts District’s first Friday ‘Walk All Over Waterloo’. The exhibition is in the Maria Neil Art Project gallery through Sunday, June 15.
This exhibition is among a variety of free events open to the public funded by the Collinwood Rising Vibrancy Grants program. Through the generous support of The Kresge Foundation, artists and local businesses have the opportunity to create transformative change in the Collinwood neighborhood. The goal of the grant is to create dozens of new community projects that brighten up the Waterloo Arts District during their $5.5 million streetscape improvement.
Flower Power!
May 2, 2014 – June 15, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, May 2, 2014 - 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm
The Maria Neil Art Project is excited to welcome spring with a special exhibition focusing on the beauty and power of flowers.
Flower Power! features the work of three Cleveland area photographers – Cynthia Penter, Deborah Pinter and Daiv Whaley. In addition, the show will include an original floral sculpture by Moe Dixon, a special spring celebration, and a unique opportunity for the community to participate in the exhibition.
Flowers have an alluring, almost alarming power over us. Their beauty is something that can seem so perfect that it is hard to imagine that they are, in fact, very real.
Daiv Whaley uses angles, close-ups, light intensity, intentional blurriness and his own manipulations in his Polaroid images. For more than 21 years, Whaley has been capturing natural beauty with a sci-fi aesthetic.
Cynthia Penter loves the relationship between people and flowers. Her film emulsion and digital portraits do not just feature flowers, but also people interacting with them. Through her photographs she explores the usage, meaning and symbolism of flowers in our lives. They make you wonder, just what is the purpose of flowers? Why do they exist – and why do they hold such a power over us?
Deborah Pinter creates her Scanagrams by digitally scanning flowers, using software to manipulate her imagery, and printing the photographs on lustrous polymer sheets. With their sharp forms and spare backgrounds, Pinter’s floral images resemble Victorian-era cyanotypes and early-twentieth-century photograms—camera-less photographs that were made by placing botanical specimens or other objects directly onto light-sensitive paper that was then exposed to light. Pinter’s more recent Flower series depicts single specimens in tight focus against dark backgrounds. Blossoms seem to materialize just beneath the surface of each image, where they are raked by intense light.
On Sunday, May 18, the Flower Power Spring Celebration will be held at the gallery and in other areas in the Waterloo Arts District. The event will be a family-friendly celebration of spring that will include refreshments for adults and children, a flower making party, a neighborhood flower planting and a ‘sky garden’ flower release. The event will begin at 12:00 noon.
The exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, May 2, 2014 from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm as part of the Waterloo Arts District’s first Friday ‘Walk All Over Waterloo’. The exhibition is in the Maria Neil Art Project gallery through Sunday, June 15.
This exhibition is among a variety of free events open to the public funded by the Collinwood Rising Vibrancy Grants program. Through the generous support of The Kresge Foundation, artists and local businesses have the opportunity to create transformative change in the Collinwood neighborhood. The goal of the grant is to create dozens of new community projects that brighten up the Waterloo Arts District during their $5.5 million streetscape improvement.
