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ARTIST EXAMINES PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS IN ONE-PERSON EXHIBIT AT
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY’S BEN SHAHN GALLERIES
Artist Debra Pearlman, whose artwork focuses on the intense relationship
between parents and their children, presents a site-specific installation
at the Ben Shahn Galleries at William Paterson University in Wayne
from February 2 through March 5. Gallery hours are Monday through
Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
The exhibit, titled “Shakespeare Speaks,” features a selection
of Pearlman’s recent prints and related sculpture. All of the
Iris prints in the series are texts extracted from Shakespeare’s
plays concerning children. The text is presented on a stark, opaque
ground of color in Vendetta type.
“The core of my work resides in the printing process,”
Pearlman explains. “Work is printed, reproduced, repeated and
reoriented, disoriented, stateless, ambiguous and fragmentary. It
can begin with an image, a title or a phrase.”
The installation also includes other text-related sculpture. Pearlman
frequently uses materials such as glass or paper for their qualities
of fragility and translucency. Multiple images are made unique through
hand coloring and manipulation. “Presented in isolation or within
containers such as handmade boxes, my works become both intimate and
totemic,” she says.
Pearlman was selected to receive the one-person show as the grand
prize winner of NorthEast Prints 2003, a juried show of works by professional
printmakers held at the Ben Shahn Galleries in winter 2003. A lecturer
at the Museum of Modern Art since 1989, Pearlman is also a teaching
artist at the Lincoln Center Institute in New York.
She has shown her works in numerous exhibitions including a recent
shows at the Silicon Gallery in Philadelphia; Debra Kravetz, writing
for Art Matters, described her prints there as “chilling works
of art expressing grief, loss, memory or severe admonition.”
Her work is also currently featured in a group exhibit, “Uncommon
Portraits, Uncommon Views: Four Contemporary Artists,” in the
Gallery of Contemporary Art at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield,
Conn. She also has been invited to participate in the Biennale in
fall 2004 in Lodz, Poland.
Pearlman’s works are held in numerous collections, including
those of the Museum of Modern Art Archive, the Brooklyn Museum, the
New York Public Library and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Pearlman is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts with a bachelor’s
degree in fine art, and the School of the Art institute of Chicago
with a master’s degree in fine art.
The exhibit is one of three shows on view concurrently in the Ben
Shahn Galleries. The Court Gallery features “The Piet Project,”
a site-specific installation by sculptor Jim Toia that draws on William
Paterson’s campus as a resource. The South Gallery features
“American Impressions: Contemporary American Printmaking,”
an annual juried exhibit of works by artists from across the country.
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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Further Information, contact:
- Mary
Beth Zeman, Director, Public Relations 973-720-2966
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