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W&L’s Staniar Gallery Presents Liz Liguori’s ‘Where We Meet’
Washington and Lee University’s Staniar Gallery is pleased to present “Where We Meet,” a solo exhibition by artist Liz Liguori. The exhibit will be on view from Sept. 5 through Oct. 18. Liguori will also give an artist’s talk on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 5:30 p.m. in Wilson Hall’s Concert Hall, followed by a reception.
Liz Liguori: Light of Hand @La MaMa Galleria
COLLECTOR DAILY
Liz Liguori’s recent contributions to this storied subgenre of photography history are rooted in a unique perspective – she didn’t actually start with photography, but with light itself. Her artistic arc began in New York’s nightclubs in the mid 2000s, where she was a performative light artist, providing visuals to accompany the music. The unlikely combination of a simple green laser pointer and a cheap glass prism provided a creative spark, and soon she installed a tray filled with prisms atop her light board and “played” them with lasers during her shows.
F-STOP PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE
Liz Liguori: Light of Hand
Liz Liguori: Light of Hand features never before seen unique gelatin silver prints, whose massive shifts in scale—from 7 x 8 foot diptychs to more intimate pieces only a few inches across—highlight the painterly capacities of light refraction and optical amplification of water and sound frequency. These abstract works, focusing on the artist’s newest experimental darkroom procedures, showcase the depth and tonal possibilities achieved through Liguori’s experimentation with objects, photochemistry, and paper.
ARTFIXDAILY
Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience to Open at Asheville Art Museum
Contemporary art, interdisciplinary research communities, and the inspiration of Appalachia converge in Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience. This exhibition showcases a selection of collaborative creative works that emerged from nearly four decades of the Mountain Lake Workshop series, a program sited in rural southwestern Virginia.
NEW YORK TIMES
An Art Show for Hundreds of Women. And That’s Just the Artists.
The sense of community is “better than any graduate school,” said Liz Liguori, 40, a photographer turned multimedia artist whose work merges high and low tech. For this biennial, she created an interactive “drawing machine,” in which a laser translates viewers’ hand motions into fleeting shapes.
ART LANTERN
The Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop: Art in Locale
Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, away from urban art centers, a “radically subversive” program began in 1980 with the goal of cultivating a “meaningful context or ‘culture’ for art”. The Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop provided a serious but friendly forum for artists, critics, and academic and local participants.
ART 21
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Sally Mann’s iconic landscape photographs are the basis of Metempsychosis, a group show at Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA). Artists Jessie Mann and Liz Liguori created new diptychs by painting over and lasering Sally Mann’s large-scale prints. A conversation between all three artists is available online. The exhibition closes November 16.
CABINET MAGAZINE AND MASS MOCA
An Exchange With Sol LeWitt: A curatorial project by Regine Basha
This exhibition serves as a tribute to Sol LeWitt by employing an open-call model that mirrors his own creative practices. The resulting array of contributions from artists around the world reflects the spirit of collaboration and dialogue at the heart of LeWitt's work. This curatorial project prompts questions about the boundaries of curation and the nature of artistic exchange.
GRADIENT MAGAZINE
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