Kingston Show Opens at Bryant Library
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Running through October 31st in the Art League's newly renovated Bryant Library Gallery in Roslyn, "Floating, Mapping and Landing" explores the concept of the elusive self. In the words of artist Carol Vollet Kingston, "Our Selves may not be always interesting. Or comforting! We seem, sometimes, to dissolve into our environment - yet to remain, still ourselves: rising, falling, fearing, resting - floating!" Meet the artist at the opening reception on Saturday, September 27th from 2 - 4 PM and visit http://www.carolkingston.com/ for more information about the artist.
In the nineteen-seventies and - eighties, Carol Vollet Kingston designed costumes and sets for the ballets of choreographers like Alvin Ailey, Choo San Goh, Talley Beatty and Gerald Arpino, and her work has been presented at the Paris Opera and Reggio Emilio, the Singapore Dance Theater and the Sydney Opera, the Royal Swedish, the Royal Danish, at Lincoln Center in New York and the Kennedy Center in US, and theaters around the world. Then, a decade or so ago, she began to devote herself to large works and installations that include drawings and paintings, on canvas, naugahyde, and plastic RP screen, sometimes with soundtracks, photographs, electro-printing and construction. She draws every day (even on the treadmill), takes endless photographs, and experiments continually with scale and medium. Technique, she says, must seduce the viewer into looking.
The exhibition is curated by Steven Ceraso.
Educational and school tours are welcome. The Art League has a full range of educational services available for school programs for all ages. Please call or email Joanne Nielsen at jnielsen@artleagueli.org or (631) 462-5400 x225.
