Post-Katrina Interiors Are Theme of New Exhibit

Library Chairs by Jill Skupin Burkholder On Friday, February 5, from 6 to 8pm Garrison Art Center will host an opening reception for the artists of two exhibitions and a video installation.

Still Lives, After Katrina, a series of photographs by Jill Skupin Burkholder, will open in the Balter Gallery. Burkholder's work was selected as "Best in Show" at last year's exhibition PHOTOcentric, a photography show juried by Malcolm Daniel, curator in charge of the Department of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Alice Rose George, a noted NYC photo book editor and photography curator. Burkholder's series depicts New Orleans room interiors and their contents after Katrina's devastating visit. The images at first are quiet and then gently become alarming.

Erstz Landscape in the Gillette Gallery features mixed media works by Geoffrey Detrani. Detrani's transparent layering of planes curiously adds to both the understanding and the mystery of his work. "Botany, architecture, ambiguous, vaguely habitable structures and spaces; in my work these elements surface and submerge, optically and metaphorically, within a layered pictorial space that is cartographic, calligraphic ,and firmly anchored in imagined landscape."

Mapping Perception, a video installation by Matt Frieburghaus includes three short pieces that map aural and visual moments. "I act as an alert witness to the events around me and collect sound, video, and data and then transform these elements digitally. . . . My gravitation to sound started as a teenager playing guitar in a band, only to emerge later during art school and inform my work. The visual aspect of my work reveals my life-long passion for maps. I want to chart a change of my perception by translating my sensory experiences."

Continuing on the Sidewalk Sculpture Gallery are works in steel and stone by Tom Holmes.

The exhibitions continue through February 28. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm. Please visit garrisonartcenter.org for information on all exhibitions and programs.

A description of classes and workshops for all ages and skill levels is also on line, including the popular "Cabin Fever Workshops," four Saturday mornings in February.