This week at the Warwick Museum of Art:
- April Photography Show: People and Places by Shane Gutierrez
- Roving Eye Documentary Film Festival - Glimpses of Heaven, Saturday, April 19, 2008
- Unexpected Company - Every Sunday at 7:17 p.m.
People and Places
Portraits and Landscapes by Photographer Shane Gutierrez
April 7th - 29th
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, Noon - 4 p.m.
Admission to gallery by donation - all are welcome!
The pictures you see here represent subjects I have been interested in
photographing for the past twenty years. Most of my work follows the
traditional method of using a single exposure. Some subjects, however,
lend themselves to a more unique presentation, and have led me to begin
experimenting with multiple exposure, movement and stereo
(3-dimensional) photography. The option of manipulating a photograph to
match my interpretation of it continues to intrigue and challenge me.
My love of the landscape, its beauty and design, has been consistent
throughout the years. Texture has always played a large part in my
landscape photography and has led me along some very interesting paths,
including my discovery of historic burial grounds. I have been looking
for and walking through these graveyards for 8 years now and have come
away with many images from my visits there. I also seek out texture in
architecture, particularly weathered structures seemingly untouched for
years. These interests have given me a new perspective of landscape
photography.
Portraiture is another favorite subject of mine. New possibilities
constantly present themselves through the use of double exposure,
shutter speed, depth of field, lighting and so on. Profiles,
dramatization, symbolism and multiple sequencing are variations I often
touch on initially to determine what direction a shoot goes in. I rarely
go into a shoot with an idea carved in stone, preferring a “let’s
experiment” approach. Since the person I’m photographing also comes with
something in mind, the final result is a collaborative effort between
the two of us. It continues to be great fun experimenting with
portraiture, its surprises being part of the reason photography has
stayed fresh for me over the years.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Doors open at 2:30
Movies start at 3:00 p.m.
Admission on Donation Basis*
The Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) is proud to present its third annual Roving Eye Documentary Film Festival™. This month-long celebration of international documentaries will screen at locations across the state, including: Westerly, Richmond, Providence, Warwick, Bristol, and Smithfield.
GLIMPSES OF HEAVEN
Directed by Michael Oved Dayan; Canada (67 mins)
As a small child, Peter Gary lay helpless while Nazis murdered his mother. Left to die in a desolate forest with only a handful of other survivors, Gary narrowly escaped his own extermination on Christmas Eve in 1941. During the Japanese invasion of China, Wayne Ngan fled to Canada at the age of 13. Unable to speak the language and exposed to snow for the first time, Ngan lived with alcoholic grandparents who mirrored the environment's icy welcome. George Littlechild was separated from his family as a baby when the Canadian government determined that indigenous people were incapable of providing for themselves. As a result, his youth is marked by painful memories of physical and mental abuse at the hands of white foster families assigned to care for him.
Michael Oved Dayan's award winning, directorial debut is starkly shot and told directly from the source, weaving three profoundly personal journeys into one intimate narrative of survival. Glimpses of Heaven chronicles the heroic journey from past suffering to create beauty and harmony in the present.
*Suggested donation of $10 per person to benefit the WMOA 2008/09 Arts programming.
The Warwick Museum of Art proudly presents Unexpected Company, Rhode Island's premier long-form improvisational comedy group, every Sunday night at 7:17 PM.
Unexpected Company is held in the main exhibition gallery and intended for mature audiences. Admission is $5.00.3259
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