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| Water
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Berlin Stones
and Belle Isle
Photographs by Jerry Jones and Sergei Tcherepnin
March 23- April 29, 2006
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| Opening
Reception: Thursday, March 23, 6 - 9 PM |
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This double exhibition will feature photography by Jerry
Jones and Sergei Tcherepnin. Works by both photographers speak of a search
to recover real or imagined, childhood or dream spaces through the exploration
of urban landscapes.
German-born Jones' photographs of Berlin's stone streets
are evocative of history and personal memories. Jones remarks, "What
excited me most, as a photographer, were the paving stones. Patterns,
colors, juxtapositions; history pressed into the sand beneath. Framing
the stone puzzles, one seems to discover a nouminal significance…One
evening at dusk, passing the busy outdoor restaurants and lighted shop
windows, streetlights painting the linden trees and with a vast sky luminous
above the city; I felt the stirring of ancient memory: the surroundings
familiar to a four year-old boy on a tricycle."
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Jerry Jones, from Berlin Stones,
2005 |
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| Tcherepnin's digital prints of abandoned
urban sites are suggestive of the surreal and of otherworldly encounters.
After traveling to Detroit and encountering an amusement park, "Belle
Isle," which was closed for the winter, Tcherepnin became intrigued
by the overgrowth of nature and quiet desertion of this small space in the
middle of an industrial city. He comments "While wandering around a
place like this alone at night, one begins to imagine that different worlds
exist within the one we live in. Whether they are encounters with extra-terrestrials,
memories conjured from the recesses of the mind, or dreams, they become
very real in a place like Belle Isle." In search of such places as
Belle Isle, Tcherepnin has explored Venice, Cape Cod, the Hudson Valley,
and Central Park. Many of the photographs are made at night, shot in color,
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Sergei Tcherepnin, 3 Beams,
2003 |
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| subtle and strange with their evoked
presences. His exhibition will include an installation of projected images
and an accompanying sound score. Also an emerging composer, Tcherepnin will
present a concert in conjunction with his exhibition. |
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| Jerry Jones, from
Berlin Stones, 2005 |
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Jerry Jones, from Berlin Stones,
2005 |
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| Jerry Jones has worked with photography,
mostly film and video, for 40 years. He has directed and produced documentaries,
and shot low budget features. Credits for still photography include The
National Geographic. He shot a series of short pieces on New York Artists
for RAI Italian Television which included Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol,
Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns. Also for RAI, he documented the giant
wall murals that were appearing in New York, Boston and Chicago. He studied
art at Oberlin College, Cooper Union, and philosophy at New York University.
Jones was Director of Photography for Kerouac, which was judged Best
Feature Length Film, American Film Festival. He received the John Grierson
Award and an Emmy nomination for the documentary Homeless not Helpless:
Opening Doors. |
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Sergei Tcherepnin |
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| Sergei Tcherepnin,
Fortress, 2003 |
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| Sergei Tcherepnin received his
B.A. from Bard College where he studied music composition and performance
and photography. He studied composition with Joan Tower, piano with German
Diaz, and photography primarily with Stephen Shore. His piece "Fantasy
for Piano and Orchestra" was performed by the American Symphony Orchestra
at Bard College in celebration of the commencement of the class of 2004.
His piece "look up firefly the night is calling" was performed
by the Da Capo Chamber Players at Merkin Concert Hall (NYC) in November
of 2004 as part of their program entitled "Premieres and Explorations"
-- a program they also brought to the Moscow Autumn Festival and the Sound
Ways Festival in St. Petersburg. His String Quartet "Pythons of Ashen
Stone" which was commissioned by the Emerging String Quartets and Composers
festival was premiered by the Highland Quartet in August of 2005. Tcherepnin
is currently writing a wind symphony which was commissioned by the American
Wind Symphony Orchestra in celebration of their 50th anniversary, and will
be touring with AWSO on their floating arts center in Cuba this summer. |
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Concert
Saturday, March 25, 2006
4:00 PM
Tcherepnin will present a piano program of original compositions
and improvisations.
With Laura Steele (live video mixing), Tommy Soden
and Adria Otte.
Piano courtesy of Piedmont Piano Company.
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| Concert with video
installation. |
(left to right): Laura Steele,
Sergei Tcherepnin, Tommy Soden, Adria Otte |
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