Student Photography Featured at William Paterson University

Photography projects by nine students at William Paterson University will be on view in the Power Art Gallery on campus from October 4 to October 27, 2004.

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. A panel discussion about the show will be held on Thursday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m., followed by a reception from 7 to 9 p.m.
The Power Art Gallery is located in the Power Art Center, 25 Power Avenue, off Hamburg Turnpike, between Valley and Ratzer Roads in Wayne.

Robin Schwartz, a photographer who lives in Hoboken and assistant professor of art at William Paterson University, curated the show featuring the works of her students. “I encouraged them to photograph what they care about. The projects are based on their long-term commitment and steady, hard work over a two-year period,” says Schwartz.

Each photographer will exhibit 10 black and white photographs. They include photographs of children, landscapes, the female nude, family relationships and international scenes. Some of the students have held previous exhibits at the Paterson Museum, Paterson, and at Johnson and Johnson’s corporate gallery in Piscataway.

Photographers participating in the show, who are all from New Jersey, include Kim Maher of Teaneck, who concentrates on landscapes throughout northern New Jersey; Patricia Mulraney of Greenwood Lake, who explores the dynamics of family relationships through portraiture; Angelica Munoz of Bergenfield, who photographs her family’s coffee plantation and surrounding regions in Columbia, South America; Paola Rached of Wallington, who studies the human form with abstraction and draws inspiration from classic Greek sculpture; Ryan Brooks of Wyckoff, who works in the tradition of a documentary street photographer capturing scenes on Paterson’s Market Street; Nelson Chan of Montville, who explores his Chinese heritage through images of daily life in Hong Kong; Betty Kohmuench of Ringwood, who captures the timeless and haunting moments of childhood from scenes in classrooms and carnivals; Lukas Kwiatek of Clifton, who creates dreamlike landscapes from his photographs taken in Poland and New Jersey; and Geraldine Lozano of Newark, who exhibits photographs taken in the remote Amazon and Andes of Peru. Seven of the students are pursuing a bachelor’s degree in fine art from William Paterson. Kim Maher and Patricia Mulraney are August 2004 graduates of the University with bachelor of fine art degrees.
For additional information on the exhibit, contact Robin Schwartz at schwartzr@wpunj.edu.

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Mary Beth Zeman, Director, Public Relations 973-720-2966

9/24/04