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)
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
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