A Visual Vocabulary of Feelings” Featuring David Bleich Opening Reception June 13, 5:00-8:30

"A Visual Vocabulary of Feelings" offers a unique exhibit of large images that represents feelings people share described by a one-word title. The exhibit includes three sets of images: In A Crowded Manhattan created by people in civilization; In a Wetland, The Slough, found in Ft. Myers, Florida and cordoned off to promote tourism; and In the Aialik Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska, a natural phenomenon in the wilderness. Each image presents a wide variety of details, and the one-word title suggests the common observation that feelings occupy attention and space while challenging us to account for their many parts and meanings. We in society court this combination of actual scenes and images of these scenes as rich sources of understanding and pleasure. "A Visual Vocabulary of Feelings" features images created by David Bleich, who is a photographer specializing in large images, and a professor of English at The University of Rochester. David states: “My first book, entitled 'Readings and Feelings,' published in 1975, struck the note you may find in this exhibit. I have been interested in the difficulty people (mostly men) have in articulating feelings. I have studied this phenomenon since high school. I noticed that I was a respondent—a reader—of my own photos. That meant that a different part of my mind was at work in viewing, than in making, images. Part of our work as makers and respondents is to get these two parts of our minds to work together, to find ‘the right word’ for the feelings that lead to making images, and those that follow from viewing them.” Additionally, Susan J. Smith depicts her artistic storytelling through travel photography, which also includes handwritten postcards written to her grandchildren. Photos are also on display by Visiting Artists Steve Dent, Michael Shoemaker and d dargan teska, as well as guest photographer Hal Schuler. Visitors will also see images by gallery partners Dick Bennett, Marie Costanza, Reggie Greene, Gerry Iuppa, Nicholas Jospe, Steve Levinson, Gil Maker, Don Menger, Luann Pero and Sheridan Vincent.

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