Sony DCR-DVD301 Camcorder

Sony DCR-DVD301 Camcorder

SONY DCR-DVD301 camcorder

Photo (c) Sony

SONY DCR-DVD301 camcorder

Photo (c) Sony

Sony's DCR-DVD301 camcorder, with its vast 3.5-inch SwivelScreen™ hybrid LCD display, will record directly to 3-inch DVD-R/-RW discs, which play in most current home and PC DVD players, as well as later releases of PlayStation®2 videogame consoles. 

The screen's hybrid technology minimizes LCD washout even in bright sunlight and can rotate up to 270-degrees for multiple viewing angles. Beyond its 3.5-inch screen, the camcorder will share most of the same features as the DCR-DVD201 DVD Handycam® camcorder, such as a one-megapixel Advanced HAD™ CCD imager and the ability to take one-megapixel digital still images. 

The DCR-DVD301 model will be available in October 2004 for about $1,100.

SONY ELECRONICS INC.
www.sony.com

Maternity Photography by LauryL

(c) LaurieL - All rights reserved

(c) LaurieL - All rights reserved

LaurieL Fine Art Photography is making pregnant women realize how incredibly beautiful they really are... and her photographs prove it

Take a glance through her on line gallery, and you will see just how beautifully her photography deplicts the splendor of a woman with child. The images range from sensous to serene... from fun to fantastic... to ultimately... treasured pieces of fine art.

"I love the glow that comes from a woman who is happily expecting a child. I want to capture her beauty...the curves of her body, created by the new life it carries. I want to capture that time... I want her to remember how beautiful she was. It's like the weeks before Christmas for a young child... the anticipation, the excitement... the love for what is about to happen. That's what I strive to capture..that's what I love... that's what I do."

In addition to maternity photography, LaurieL also captures tender moments of children and families. She has created a line of custom birth announcements that carry over her photographic style of clean line, black & white photography. Custom Holiday cards and Graphic Design services are also available.

Featuring all digital equipment, including a digital darkroom, final photographs are enhanced for flawless beauty.

Each portrait is a piece of fine art, carefully worked to create stunning, heirloom images. For maternity, and upon request, unwanted stretch marks or veins are removed. Hips, thighs and arms are contoured, so that any unflattering weight gain that may have occurred during pregnancy is minimized. The final images are stunning, and have awarded Laurie top recognition amongst her peers and the photographic world.

You can visit her gallery at http://www.laurielphotography.com/

Elizabeth H. Wold, Parish Gallery, Washington DC

Elizabeth H. Wold

Parish Gallery, Washington DC

August 20 - September 14, 2004 

Parish Gallery presents Elizabeth H. Wold, Ethiopian painter who works in the medium of collage.  

The medium, collage, became a central instrument to Elizabeth H. Wold’s visual vocabulary in the mid-90s.  As a graduate student at Howard University she became fascinated with the works of Romare Bearden.  The cutouts in her collages have similar effects as the brush strokes in her paintings.  Her conceptualization is most benefited by the medium of collage.

Elizabeth H. Wold has been teaching collage as an art form for a few years, progressively moving into the field of computer graphics and digital art.  Currently, she works as a freelancer in multimedia, print and web design.  For the last three years, Elizabeth H. Wold has been living in her native Ethiopia and her recent work reflects her experience there. 

Socially, Elizabeth H. Wold was raised in a culture that focused on the community and it’s collective activities.  Her works, in effect are reflective of these traditions, values and beliefs, perhaps that is why the human figure is a recurring theme in her work.

Elizabeth H. Wold graduated in 1985 from the Fine Arts School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  In 1993, she earned a Master of Fine Arts from Howard University, specializing in painting. She has exhibited her works in the metropolitan Washington, DC area including the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.  Elizabeth H. Wold has been in numerous selected group exhibitions.

PARISH GALLERY - GEORGETOWN

1054 31st Street, NW, Washington DC 20007

www.parishgallery.com

Peter Beasecker at Ferrin Gallery, Lenox

Peter Beasecker
Ferrin Gallery, Lenox 
August 14 - September 12, 2004

Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA, presents new work in "Containers", a series of new work by ceramic artist Peter Beasecker. This work expresses an appreciation for gravity and ideas of containment. Peter Beasecker is interested in the "beautifully sparse and sturdy object that directly refers to a history of use." His recent work draws inspiration from such diverse sources as Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses and Spirals, and his travels to Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico, where expansive flat planes and imposing walls evoke the quiet power, clarity, and elegance that Peter Beasecker seeks in his own work. Peter Beasecker writes, "This current work reflects my desire to have such qualities in a simple, direct object. I hope the awkwardness of lifting a cup as it scrapes a wall will provide a subtle catalyst for seeing and feeling a new relationship with something as familiar and ordinary as a cup.

Peter Beasecker received his Master of Fine Arts in 1987 at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY. He received a Ford Research Fellowship, Southern Methodist University, '03, and an NCECA China Residency Grant, '03. His work is in the permanent collection of Cermamics Monthly, Columbus, OH;  The Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, N.C.; and The International Workshop of Ceramic Art, Tokoname, Japan, among many other notable institutions.

FERRIN GALLERY
69 Church Street, Lenox, MA 01240
www.ferringallery.com

Nicholas Khan & Richard Selesnick at Ferrin Gallery, Lenox

Nicholas Khan & Richard Selesnick: The Apollo Prophecies
Ferrin Gallery, Lenox 
August 14 - September 12, 2004

Ferrin Gallery partners with Pepper Gallery of Boston to present "The Apollo Prophecies," a show of photography and mixed media by collaborative artists Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick. In this body of work, the artists create an installation that tells the tale of a lost Edwardian expedition to the moon that is discovered by 1960's astronauts on an Apollo moon expedition. The work was shot and assembled on sets with miniature models, props and live actors. Using the narrative format of Italian Renaissance fresco cycles, the story is revealed in multiple episodes featuring the same characters within single long photographic panels. The exhibition includes a cabinet of Moon Rocks, chemistry apparatus, photos and drawings of the evolution of moon rocks, and absurd spacecraft and spacesuits, which add up to invest the presentation with a dead-pan, mock documentary quality.

Nicholas Kahn/Richard Selesnick's work is in numerous public collections, including The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

FERRIN GALLERY
69 Church Street, Lenox, MA 01240
www.ferringallery.com

Alfred Maurer: The First American Modern at Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greenburg

Alfred Maurer: The First American Modern
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greenburg
August 1 - October 17, 2004

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art (WMAA) presents the exhibition Alfred Maurer: The First American Modern. The exhibition includes 52 works consisting of 21 oil or casein paintings on canvas or board, 10 large gouache, tempera or watercolors on paper or board, 21 pen and ink, conté crayon, graphite or pastel drawings on paper.

This exhibition examines the full spectrum of the artist's career. Alfred Maurer was an active member of the American avant-garde in the early years of the 20th century. His academic training in New York and Paris shaped his work before the turn of the century. After spending 17 years in Paris, Alfred Maurer turned to his own interpretation of Cubism and Fauvism to become one of the most important American modernist painters of the century. A ninety-page catalogue accompanies the exhibition. The exhibition was organized by the University of Minnesota's Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis.

A symposium is scheduled for Friday, September 24, 2004, featuring Daphne Anderson Deeds, an art consultant and curator who has organized more than fifty exhibitions of American art and is author of numerous associated articles and catalogue essays. She is the author of the catalogue Alfred Maurer: The First American Modern.

ABOUT ALFRED MAURER

Alfred Henry Maurer (1868-1932) was one of the most prolific and progressive artists of the early modern period in America. Often referred to as "the first American modern," Alfred Maurer left a burgeoning career as an academic painter in New York City to relocate in Paris from 1897-1914 where he enthusiastically embraced Henri Matisse's intense vision, and almost singled-handedly imported fauvism to the United States.

Alfred Maurer's complex career bridged virtually all the major stylistic developments of the early twentieth century: impressionism, postimpressionism, fauvism and expressionism. From his early traditional portraits to his fauvist still lifes and landscapes to his striking, eccentric nude figures, Alfred Maurer's diversity of style and subject is remarkable. Despite his many artistic accomplishments, Alfred Maurer seldom attracted critical praise during his lifetime, and even today his name is secondary in the artistic pantheon.

Recent scholarship reveals a fresh perspective and presents Alfred Maurer's various methods and styles in a new light. His art is now celebrated as a uniquely American vision. Alfred Maurer's restless spirit and his valiant pursuit of an authentic expression are now prized as the work of a genuinely original artist.

In conjunction with Alfred Maurer: The First American Modern, the WMAA features glass art by JOELLE LEWITT in the exhibition entitled Melting and Blooming. Joelle Levitt was the recipient of the WMAA exhibition award selected from the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh annual exhibition in 2002. She describes her work as "fantastical creatures that might appear on some silicon planet" and has been experimenting with blowing small components at the furnace and then melting them together to form a creature or flower in the kiln. Joelle Levitt combines elements from both the natural world and her imaginary one to create her glass sculptures.

WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
221 North Main Street, Greensburg, PA 15601
www.wmuseumaa.org

Richard Marquis, Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland

Richard Marquis
Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland
August 4 - September 25, 2004

The Bullseye Connection Gallery presents Richard Marquis, an exhibition of kilnformed and blown glass.

Richard Marquis’s work has a cheeky tone with a teasing, appealing wit. Tina Oldknow, Curator of Modern Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass and author of the definitive Richard Marquis Objects (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1997), says “[Marquis’s work is] humorous, but the approach is sophisticated and smart rather than slapstick and stupid. Dick’s work is often about subversion, and it can be particularly charming in its subversiveness. But, sometimes the work is about beauty, such as [his] exquisitely composed and colored collection of murrine eggs in their pristine cups, or it is about pathos, the companion of beauty, which is illustrated by [his] vessel-laden murrine elephant.”

Richard Marquis has a long and well-recognized list of national and international artistic accomplishments. He has been awarded four National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1990, 1981, 1978, 1974). He will be this year’s recipient of the Libensky Award and is the featured artist of the Chateau Ste. Michelle Meritage Series for 2004. Richard Marquis was also the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Glass award from UrbanGlass in New York, NY for 2002. 

Richard Marquis has had numerous international solo and group exhibitions. His work is included in many public and private collections, including the Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark; Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY (formerly American Craft Museum); National Art Museum, Auckland, New Zealand; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria; National Glasmuseum, Leerdam, Holland; National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

THE BULLSEYE CONNECTION GALLERY
300 NW Thirteenth Avenue, Portland, OR 97209
www.bullseyeconnectiongallery.com