{"id":13766,"date":"2020-02-06T13:20:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T18:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/two-artists-explore-landscapes-in-exhibit-opening-today-feb-6-in-the-teaching-gallery\/"},"modified":"2020-02-06T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T18:20:10","slug":"two-artists-explore-landscapes-in-exhibit-opening-today-feb-6-in-the-teaching-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/two-artists-explore-landscapes-in-exhibit-opening-today-feb-6-in-the-teaching-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Two artists explore landscapes in exhibit opening today, Feb. 6 in The Teaching Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Teaching Gallery presents The Production of Place<\/strong>, a two-person exhibition featuring landscapes by Leah Beeferman and Jen Hitchings that was organized by Thomas Lail, a professor in the college\u2019s Fine Arts Department. Following an opening reception with the artists from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, the exhibit continues through March 7 in The Teaching Gallery, located in the Administration Building.<\/p>\n

Lail will moderate a conversation with the artists from 3 to 4 p.m. on Feb. 6 in the Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium. All events, including the opening reception, are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Like countless artists before them, photographer Leah Beeferman and painter Jen Hitchings depict landscapes in their work. \u201cBy engaging with practices that reach back to historical modes of seeing, representing and cataloging the \u2018natural\u2019 that surrounds us, Beeferman and Hitchings create places that reference actual locations, but simultaneously produce new geographies that raise questions about the social uses, histories, perils and possibilities of today\u2019s world,\u201d Lail writes about the exhibition, and quotes a 2008 essay by artist and geographer Trevor Paglen: \u201cgeographers don\u2019t just study geography\u2026 they make geographies [recognizing] that cultural production and the production of space cannot be separated from each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Beeferman and Hitchings present pieces of places and spaces, linking these to the larger politics of history, memory, ecology and science, according to Lail. \u201cTheir work offers fragments and vistas of distant or remembered locations \u2013 what Beeferman calls \u2018data,\u2019 collected and reorganized.\u201d Infused with personal experience from the landscape of one\u2019s past, these images \u201cconjure the triumphal and cataclysmic, and become scaffolding for a new geographical place \u2013 one that is both the original locale and a newly \u2018produced\u2019 place fertile with questions and possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leah Beeferman is a New York City-based artist, using digital image-making, photography, text, sound and video to explore relationships between observation and abstraction, natural and digital, physical and experiential. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University. A recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Grant to Finland in 2016, she has exhibited her work and\/or participated in artist residencies throughout the United States, in Canada, Finland and Ireland.<\/p>\n

A Brooklyn-based artist and curator, Jen Hitchings received a Queens Council on the Arts\u2019 New Works Grant in 2018. She\u2019s had solo exhibitions at MEN Gallery in New York City, PROTO in Hoboken, NJ, and One River School in Englewood, NJ, and also has completed residencies in New York, Vermont and Japan. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting & Drawing from SUNY Purchase College and a Certificate in Small Business & Entrepreneurship from CUNY Hunter.<\/p>\n

Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; 1 to 7 p.m. Wednesday; noon to 4 p.m. Saturday; closed Sunday, Monday and Wednesday, Feb. 26. Directions and more information: www.hvcc.edu\/teachinggallery<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Leah Beeferman
\nCold Color (The Waves, Kilpisj\u00e4rvi)<\/em>, 2019, still from digital video\/animation, no sound, 14:06 min.<\/h6>\n
\"\"<\/a>Jen Hitchings
\nCeremony<\/em>, 2017, oil and acrylic on canvas, 18 x 32\u201d<\/h6>\n

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