{"id":7951,"date":"2014-08-06T17:44:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T21:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=7951"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:31:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T17:31:34","slug":"photographs-by-women-recent-additions-to-the-permanent-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/2014-2\/photographs-by-women-recent-additions-to-the-permanent-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographs by Women: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/code>October 24, 2014 \u2013 March 21, 2015<\/code><\/h4>\n
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Donna Ferrato (American, born 1949), Puffy\u2019s Tavern TriBeCa, 2010, archival pigment print. Gift of Charles Dorkey III, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n

Photographs by Women<\/em> is a selection of works added to the collection since 2010. The artists include Kristin Capp (New York), Donna Ferrato (New York), Denise Froehlich (Portland, Maine), Sally Gall (New York), Irina Ionesco (Paris), Susan Moldenhauer (Wyoming), and Claire Seidl (New York and Rangeley, Maine). The artists in this exhibition represent a variety of subjects and interests, and each has been working for years. The work presented here focuses on selections from one series by each artist, all in black and white.<\/p>\n

Kristin Capp\u2019s sensitive photographs are from an extensive body of work that focus on members
\nof several Hutterite communities (a religious sect rooted in 16the\u00a0century Protestantism) in eastern Washington State and Saskatchewan, Canada. The gritty street photography of Donna Ferrato chronicles the people, places, and captured moments in the life of lower Manhattan, and particularly the TriBeCa neighborhood, as it transforms in recent years. Denise Froehlich\u2019s male nudes are from the Pathos of Eros<\/em> series, a compelling recent body of work in which she explores her thoughts on virility, ageing, and beauty in square format and composite panoramic images.\u00a0Sally Gall\u2019s atmospheric photographs are from Swimmers<\/em>, one of many series in which she immerses viewers in a visceral and sensual contemplation of nature and our place within it. A former circus girl and cabaret dancer, Irena Ionesco is described as a gothic icon and grande dame<\/em> of erotica. Sometimes using her daughter as a model, she photographs women in theatrical poses, wearing lace and fetishistic props.\u00a0Susan Moldenhauer creates performative fabric-draped portraits of women, often using herself as the subject, that place the solitary figure in\u00a0motion within the expansive high plains and\u00a0under the sweeping skies of\u00a0Eastern Wyoming.\u00a0Claire Seidl\u2019s long-exposure nocturnal images often take place in domestic interiors, where she captures furniture and other details, which are interspersed with voids of inky black space and inhabited by moving figures and their apparitions.<\/p>\n

A number of the photographs in the exhibition have been generously donated to the Museum of Art. On behalf of the museum, Bates and the campus and regional communities, we offer our sincere thanks to: Henry Daas, Charles Dorkey III, Ronald Francesco, Denise Froehlich, Francis McIntyre, Brad Olson, Kathleen Quinn, Allison Scollar, and Andres A. Verzosa and David G. Whaples.<\/p>\n

Curated by Dan Mills<\/p>\n

Photographs by Women Gallery Guide<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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