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IMAGES
OF WORLD TRADE CENTER AND LOWER MANHATTAN ON VIEW AT WILLIAM PATERSON
UNIVERSITY’S BEN SHAHN GALLERIES
Images of the lower Manhattan skyline, photographed by Jersey
City artist Carol Westfall, will be on view at the Ben Shahn Galleries
at William Paterson University in Wayne from March 25 through April
26. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission
is free.
The exhibit, titled "Cityscapes: Remembrances of Things Past,"
features Westfall’s photographs of the World Trade Center, the
Statue of Liberty, and New York Harbor, which have been transferred
to fabric and hang suspended on the walls of Ben Shahn’s East
Gallery. "In July of 1993, I moved to Jersey City," explains
Westfall. "As a novice sailor, I learned every nook and cranny
of that harbor. I took great delight in photographing the twin towers
at all hours of the day and night and all seasons of the year. There
was nothing quite so spectacular to me as my ‘personal view’
of Manhattan. Now it is gone."
Westfall’s images capture lower Manhattan in a variety of dramatic
views -- in the fog at dawn, in the autumn with deep shadows cast
by the skyscrapers, and across the harbor, with the buildings reflected
in the still waters. Perhaps most arresting are two images taken at
dawn. In "Port Liberte Dawn," red and yellow clouds hang
heavy over the World Trade Center; in "Fauve Dawn," the
Statue of Liberty holds her torch over the skyline.
In tribute to the lives lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center,
Westfall has crafted 3,000 paper doves, which are piled on the floor
in the center of the exhibition space. "I am heartsick over the
loss of over 3,000 innocents," she says. "How can one ever
truly acknowledge the enormity of this tragedy?"
Westfall was selected to receive the one-person show as the grand
prize winner of Northeast Prints 2001, a juried show of works by professional
printmakers held at the Ben Shahn Galleries in spring 2001. A professor
of art at Montclair State University where she teaches textiles, Westfall
has shown her works in numerous exhibitions throughout the United
States and abroad. Her textiles are currently on view in "Technology
as Catalyst: Textile Artists on the Cutting Edge" at the Textile
Museum in Washington, D.C. Her work is held in more than 30 private
collections, including the Newark Museum, the Newark Public Library,
and the Angers Museum, France.
The exhibit is one of three shows on view concurrently in the Ben
Shahn Galleries. On view in the South Gallery is "Northeast Prints
2002," a juried show featuring works by 42 professional printmakers
from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
In the Court Gallery, artist Lucio Pozzi presents "People and
Things – 2002," a painting in four parts that covers the
four freestanding walls of the gallery from floor to ceiling. All
exhibits are free and open to the public and are wheelchair accessible.
This exhibit is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey
State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of
the National Endowment for the Arts.
For additional information, please call the Ben Shahn Galleries at
William Paterson University at 973-720-2654.
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- 3/15/02
For
Further Information, contact:
- Mary
Beth Zeman, Director, Public Relations 973-720-2966
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