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June 20 through July 11, 2008
Artists' Reception: June, 2008 from 6 to 9 PM
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Art Access Gallery
Art Access Hosts a Benefit for Artists With Leprosy
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 Art Access Gallery is pleased to host an Exhibit and Art Sale to benefit the Bindu Art School of Bharatapuram colony in India. Artists with leprosy from Bindu Art School, some of whom paint with brushes attached to fingerless hands by rubber bands, will show their colorful folkloric work at Art Access Gallery from June 20 through July 11. One hundred percent of art sales from the exhibit will benefit artists from the school.
Approximately 35 framed works of colorful folkloric paintings will hang in the gallery from June 20 through July 11. In addition, unframed art will be available for sale.
Werner Dornik, a multimedia artist from Bad Ischl, Austria, founded the Bindu Art School in in 2005. He recalls his first encounter with people inflicted with leprosy. He was 18 and on his first visit to India in 1977, he saw some of them begging on the streets. In the following years, Dornik returned to India many times and taught art workshops for people with leprosy.
According to Dornik, "There¹s no teaching here. The aesthetics are all their own. Students start with black and white, before they move on to blue, yellow and red. When they finally get to use all the colors, there's an unrestrained explosion of life: pointillist forests, pink sunsets and even a hospital lined with patients that¹s a kaleidoscope of color and honesty, but no pain."
Becky Douglas, executive director and founder of the non-profit Rising Star Outreach of India, joined forces with Dornik, and has been instrumental in establishing Bindu as a permanent art school. Douglas will be present at the Art Access Opening Reception.
Bindu Art School gives a voice to people who have long been ignored by the rest of the world. For millennia, the leprosy-affected have suffered in silence outcast from all normal society and usually shut away. Now, through their paintings, they can communicate with the rest of the world.
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Art Access II Gallery
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Art Access II Gallery is pleased to present the work of talented printmaker Chadwick Tolley. Tolley will show approximately eighteen etchings and woodcuts from June 20 through July 11. The Opening Reception for this exhibit will take place on Friday June 20 from 6 to 9 PM, during the June Gallery Stroll.
Tolley is known for his drawings and prints that are filled with visual metaphors that suggest an ironic or humorous narrative. Each implied narrative is the artist¹s intuitive response to material accumulated through observation, introspection and visual mapping.
He says, "My work begins as a process of collecting. I collect photos, textures, magazine clippings and notes from personal observation. Most of these materials are assembled together in my sketchbook to create a sort of a log book. It is in my sketchbook that I process ideas and create drawings assemblages from which I develop prints."
Chad Tolley earned a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Utah in 2001 and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Oregon in 2005.
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