Work by Tara Fracalossi, a professor in the Fine Arts, Theatre Arts and Digital Media Department and director of The Teaching Gallery, is featured in “Other Places,” an exhibition by six artists on view now through Aug. 11 at Bill Arning Exhibitions in Kinderhook. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday with an opening planned for July 20.
Fracalossi exhibits a series of photographic postcards, titled “Postcards to Bill,” sent daily to gallerist Bill Arning. The installation will grow day-by-day for six weeks culminating in 44 daily postcards arranged on custom shelves in the gallery. Larger, archival prints made from select postcard images also are exhibited and will be changed occasionally during the run of the “Other Places.”
For many years, Fracalossi has been “photographing, categorizing and storing a never-ending series of images according to subject matter. The images that make up the Archive, document fleeting instants, objects and places, and have become surrogates for their now-past subjects.
“During the pandemic, I began the series, Postcards to Myself — [images] generated from my reduced-scale world using my iPhone and mailed directly to me. Like the Archive itself, the postcard works are a growing visual diary of one moment per day— intimate in viewpoint and anonymous in process. The postcards yield new insights into my work with the Archive. I have come to see them as a branch of the Archive that further melds these documents with my longtime inquiry into the photographic process, language and the construction of personal vs universal histories.”
“Other Places” includes work by five additional artists from the Hudson Valley, Philadelphia, NYC and Des Moines: Ario Barzan, drawing; Eric Hibit, painting; Jeff Fleming, drawing; Roberto Juarez, painting, and Cobi Moules , mixed media.
Other Places
June 29 – August 11, 2024
17 Broad St., Kinderhook