Studio 303
At BCA since 1973
Photographer and, printmaker, Ruth Ginsberg-Place had the opportunity of a lifetime when she was awarded an artist residency at the Schoodic Peninsula, a little-known part of Acadia National Park in Maine.
Although she set out with thoughts of combining inside studio work with outdoor photography during her three weeks of solitude, the extraordinary natural beauty and surrounding coastline called to her and she spent all her time photographing outdoors – resulting in her latest exhibition, “ Wanderings on the Schoodic Peninsula,” at The Gallery on the Plaza at The New England Institute of Art in Brookline.
The photographs on display capture her sensitivity to pattern and color, reflecting her background as a tapestry artist. “I’ve become an enchanted observer of light and see it as my creative ally,” says Ginsberg-Place. “Because light is fleeting, the images in this exhibit, all express one instant in time – the moment I captured with my camera. My desire, as paradoxical as it seems, is to tether a fleeting vision of the moment to a permanent image.” Excerpts from her journal will be displayed alongside the photographs.
Accompanying the images of the Maine Coast, tidal pools and northern plants are a group of photographs taken in the sub-tropical climate of Florida.
Ginsberg-Place is a native New Yorker, who now calls Brookline her home. Her undergraduate and graduate studies were at the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, where she received her MFA in Fiber Arts and Design. More recently she has worked in the mediums of photography and printmaking.
Ginsberg-Place has a studio at the Boston Center for the Arts. Her work is represented in the collections of the Boston Private Bank and Trust, the Boston Public Library, the Art Institute of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University, to name just a few. She has exhibited widely in the US and abroad.
“Wanderings on the Schoodic Peninsula” is in the Gallery on the Plaza from March 1 – 31, with an artist reception on Thursday, March 11, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. For more information;
www.artinstitutes.edu/boston, 617 582-4617
The Gallery on the Plaza is located at The New England Institute of Art, 10 Brookline Place West in Brookline Village, at the intersection of Route 9 and Washington Street and directly across from the Brookline Village “T” stop on the Green Line.
Gallery hours:
Monday – Thursday: 8:30 am – 8:00 pm
Friday: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
My work is spun off from nature then transformed through the mediums of: MONOTYPES of plant forms using woodcut, dry point and collage; DIGITAL IRIS PRINTS of water reflections, fantasy gardens and close-up plant forms.
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