In MIXED SOLO, Buffalo-based artist Cornelia Dohse-Peck explores all of us, together and alone, as identities in the making. Using legal paperwork, religious texts, and sometimes simple, typewritten words, Dohse-Peck creates haunting pieces of a displaced nationality and explores America from an intimate, yet foreign point of view. The power of this work lays in its combination of media, including printmaking, mixed media, sketches, collage, and, for the first time presented publicly, sculpture/objects. Color surprises the viewer with stark images of current events. Detailed sketches barely skim the surface of meaning in the finished product. The natural and the unnatural mingle in ways that evoke modern America.
Her use of familiar techniques, and branching out into new media indicate that, for Dohse-Peck, communication and exploration of thoughts, can change and guide the development of the Self, the Root. The power of her art and its mixed mediums asks us to explore ourselves, and by doing so, our nationhood.
Exhibit will be on display from January 6th through February 3rd.
Access to the gallery: M-F 7 AM-10 PM, Sat 8:30 AM-4:45 PM, Sun 10 AM-3 PM
Virginia Weiss Gallery at Empire State College
Market Arcade Building
617 Main Street
Opening Reception:
January 6, 2006, 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM.
Thanks to Kevin Hayes for the tip.
Top Photo: Cornelia’s “Beacon of Light” mural at Asbury Shalom Zone.