CCNY Lecture Series: Ellen Wallenstein

CCNY Lecture Series: Ellen Wallenstein

Tuesday, Janury 20th
7pm
The School of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street, 2nd Floor
(between 2nd and 3rd Avenue)

Ellen Wallenstein presents: “Opus for Anne: A Still Life”‚ 2002-2005
A Slide Show in Five Movements

Featuring work from:
Allison Barnes
Lisa Patchem
Jeanette Rodriguez

Tuesday, January 20th
7pm
The School of Visual Arts Amphitheatre
209 E. 23rd Street (2nd and 3rd avenues), 3rd Floor
(please bring photo ID)

A Slide Show in Five Movements

Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff
General admission $10, $5 for other students with ID

The photographs in this poignantly beautiful slide show were made during the three years Wallenstein spent as a hospice volunteer‚ visiting Anne‚ a cancer patient‚ at her apartment in Greenwich Village. Beginning in 2002‚ Ellen photographed Anne’s windows‚ bedroom‚ flower arrangements‚ and cat‚ to give the woman views of what she couldn’t see from her bed. As time went on she began to photograph the objects in the apartment as metaphors of the remnants of an interesting life.

The slide show will be presented in five “movements”‚ each part titled with a musical reference (fugue‚ concerto‚ requiem etc.) and sequenced accordingly; 60 images in total. There will be a short Q&A after the presentation‚ and then Wallenstein will introduce three former students‚ Allison Barnes‚ Lisa Patchem and Jeanette Rodriguez‚ who will each give a short presentation about the projects they worked on under Wallenstein’s supervision‚ at the School of Visual Arts.

Photographs from “Opus for Anne” have been featured on the Aperture Foundation’s On–line gallery “Director’s Cut” as well as being included in “I Bienal de Arte Contemporaneo” sponsored by Fundacion ONCE‚ at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid‚ Spain. Most recently‚ Wallenstein had a one person show of these photographs and her unique artists books at the Abrons Arts Center at the Henry Street Settlement in downtown Manhattan.

www.ellenwallenstein.com