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| Two Rivers artists join 9/11 gallery installation |
VOICE writes, "Two Rivers artists join 9/11 gallery installation
BY MICHAEL SKINNER
Budding artists from fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grades joined New York-based artist Manju Shandler for an afterschool workshop to explore the techniques she used to create her 3,000 painting installation called “Gesture,” now on display at the Honfleur Gallery in Anacostia. "
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Shandler created her paintings in the three years following the September 11 attacks. A resident of New York City, she described the frustration she felt after the attacks and talked about how she used her paintings to create something positive out of that emotion. Then she showed the students how to use the same materials she did to create paintings of their own, inspired by things in their own lives that frustrated them.
The students used acrylic paints, grease pencils and a variety of painting techniques to create images on translucent plastic strips about the size of a brick. Shandler and Honfleur Gallery director Amy Cavanaugh then hung those paintings as an installation at the gallery in time to complement the opening of Shandler’s Gesture installation on Sept. 11.
Shandler is an artist and designer who lives with her family in Bronx, N.Y. In addition to painting and illustration, she has designed and built puppets for television shows like “Sesame Street” and Broadway shows including “The Lion King.”
Both “Gesture” and the Two Rivers student installation will be on display at the Honfleur Gallery on Good Hope Road through September.
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Posted on Oct 23, 2007 09:52am.
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