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 Past Show • March 7 - 30, 2019

GLORIA KEGELES and DIANE STEINGART 
In Tune with Our Imagination: Photography & Mixed Media

March 7-30, 2019
Opening / Amherst Arts Night Plus: First Thursday, March 7, 5-8 pm
Forum / Artists In Community: Thursday, March 21, 7:30 pm
Free and open to the public.

The Forum, Artists In Community, is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council, 
a local agency, supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.   
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In Tune with Our Imagination: Photography & Mixed Media aims to make the unseen accessible. Diane Steingart's mixed media pieces are tangible, outer manifestations of her memories and emotions, while Gloria Kegeles's photographs use the camera to capture images that are overlooked, unnoticed, or invisible to the naked eye. Although they work in different media, both artists offer viewers an opportunity to connect with the mystery of what is not always accessible. 
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Gold & Diamonds, photograph by Gloria Kegeles

Over the past several months, Wendell artist Gloria Kegeles began observing the complex, multi-layered structures under the cover of her 100-year-old baby grand piano, inspired to see what she and her camera could find deep in the instrument’s innards. “Starting with the Undercover Overview, I explored the piano's interior landscape, discovering what I'd never imagined was waiting to be exposed,” she explains. Using her camera to mediate the light and record what otherwise remains unseen, she found that varied light on different days and at different times of day altered and enhanced the images in unexpected ways. “The results are yours, to compose your own visual aria,” she says.

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67865, photograph by Gloria Kegeles

Orangefields, acrylic on paper by Diane Steingart

Before changing careers in 2013, Pelham artist Diane Steingart was a social worker specializing in helping people suffering from trauma, and used both art and dance therapy in her practice. In her own art making, she delves into her memories, emotions, dreams, and imagination in what has become, for her, a meditative practice. Plying a variety of media including acrylic paints, collage materials, oil paints, graphite pens and pencils, oil sticks, and found objects, Steingart allows the unconscious to come forward.  As she explains, “My art makes visible to me what I am thinking and feeling in my journey of self-discovery.” Steingart's works are visual stories that address themes of our shared humanity, including the ties of family and relationships. This intimate content is matched by intimate scale. Many of her works are small scale—10 x 10 inches or 12 x 12 inches—but in a few pieces she branches out to larger dimensions.

Eyeing you up, mixed media by Diane Steingart