Please join us at the Handwerker Gallery for Rhonda Vanover's Exhibiting Artist Talk on Thursday, February 9, at 6 p.m.. The artist will contextualize her current work on display at the Handwerker (exhibition summary below) within the greater arc of her studio practice, ongoing research, and professional career. Q & A to follow.
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On Display at the Handwerker:
WAKE AND TEMPER: Rhonda Vanover
Curated by Mara Baldwin
February 1–March 5, 2017
Just as a photogram captures the shadow of an object once present and now removed, Rhonda Vanover’s images grasp at the mortal tensions between contact and loss, apparition and aberration, object and spectre. Her photographic and darkroom processes slow time to lay bare single moments for unsentimental scrutiny, tracing the iridescent shimmer of a dark feather, the gristle of an old bone found in the woods, or the smudge of dust on the edge of a fractured glass negative. The resulting images feel at once intimate, sparse, and strange—a tangled synesthetic experience where touch and smell and taste and sound become visible. Looking at Vanover’s images one becomes conscious and appreciative of the impermanence of everything—of bones, of glass, and even of photographic paper itself.
Rhonda Vanover is an assistant professor of photography at Ithaca College. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland), and her undergraduate degree from the Pratt Institute (Brooklyn).
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All exhibitions and events at the Handwerker Gallery are free and open to the public. The Handwerker Gallery is open Monday, Wednesday, & Friday from 10am-6pm; Thursdays from 10am-9pm; and Saturday & Sunday from 12pm-5pm. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Mara Baldwin at mbaldwin@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3548. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
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https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20170208002553347