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Opening Friday, June 5 | 5:30–8:00 PM
New Exhibitions: June 5–June 28Sarah B. Smith Gallery
Russell Hart
Untold StoriesPhotographs, drawings, and animations
Untold Stories incorporates three separate but somewhat related bodies of work, two of them photographs and one of them drawings. These are Immigrant Story: Ghosts of Ellis Island, Coffers: The Pathos of Things, and Taking Shapes: Nonobjective Drawings. Immigrant Story comes from a study of the ruins of the Ellis Island Hospital Complex, to which thousands of American immigrants were dispatched for evaluation and treatment. Coffers is the continuation of a project shown a couple of years ago at McGuffey, documenting people’s sentimental items displayed in the containers in which they’ve stored them. Taking Shapes is a series of graphite drawings partly based on Russell’s photographs that employ rubbings, shadings, and lines to create a tension between representation and the nonobjective.
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