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KATHRIN HILTEN FOCUSES ON POWER OF LINE IN ONE-PERSON SHOW Artist Kathrin Hilten, whose images are based on landscape and the focusing power of line, will present her exhibit "Lubec Lines" from March 19 through April 21 in the Ben Shahn Galleries at William Paterson University in Wayne. An opening reception for the exhibit will be held on Sunday, March 19 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the galleries. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. Hilten spends most of her summers at her studio in Lubec, Maine, where she draws on the surrounding landscape as inspiration for her artwork. After going into the fields, Hilten takes photographs and does preliminary sketches and drawings from which she can then distill, compare and perfect the arrangements of lines. "I work with objects (trees, leafless branches, grass, and the ocean) as well as aspects of the external and internal space creating a particular landscape," explains Hilton. "In an effort to become simpler, more direct, I have incorporated these views into the natural rhythms and spacial energy created by line itself." "I have sought to recreate space defined by elements which exist simultaneously on different planes. This grew out of a need to incorporate peripheral vision in the more confined space of two dimensional work," says the artist. Hilten has exhibited her work at Columbia University as well as numerous group exhibits in the New York City area. She earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture. Also on view in the Ben Shahn Galleries from March 20 through April 21 are "John B. Tracey" and "A woman's space is," curated by Maureen Riley. For additional information, please call the Ben Shahn Galleries at 973-720-2654.
Release date: March 13 2000
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