For more information: Teri L Sullivan
WKNO Promotions Manager
901-729-8735
tlsullivan@wkno.org
August 26, 2011
For Immediate Release
NEW COLLECTION OPENS AT WKNO GALLERY
Starting Friday, September 2, Gallery Ten Ninety One at the WKNO Digital Media Center will be featuring “Mé·lange” a family collection by local artists Judith Barrie, Shira Soskel & Norman Soskel. The opening reception for the show will be held at WKNO on Friday, September 9 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Judith Barrie says she has loved art, music, drama, dance, and photography since an early age, having been inspired by her parents who have shared their love of the fine arts with her through drawing and music lessons, as well as by attending concerts, operas, and plays. She received a Master of Science in Educational Media from Radford University in Virginia, using her own photographic images and silk-screen work and music to create installations and to illustrate children’s literature.
She has studied art in southern Spain, the Umbrian region of Italy, as well as in numerous local workshops and most recently at the Memphis College of Art. Judith paints a variety of subjects in oils, pastels, watercolors, and colored pencil, often incorporating images from her own photography. As a member of both Artists’ Link and the Memphis Germantown Art League, Judith enjoys exhibiting her work in local art shows.
Shira Soskel graduated in 2008 with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, focusing on painting, drawing, and printmaking. For the past two years she has found herself painting, specifically in watercolors, and experimenting in aqua-oils. Shira says she gathers inspiration from her environment, specifically from those things that invoke happiness and positive thinking.
“There are certain movements, forms, in a subject and in the act of representing a subject that invoke calm or even ease,” she said. “My goal is to provide either an environment into which one can immerse him or herself or simply elements that enhance one’s environment in a positive manner.”
Norman Soskel began taking photos at the age of four with the encouragement of his photographer father. Since then, his interest in photography has evolved through three home-made conventional darkrooms into digital schemes. Application of the same basic photographic techniques allows him to explore nature and to take glimpses from it, displaying them in various ways in an attempt to provide insight.
“After all,” he says, “what we, as artists, attempt to do is represent nature in some medium and to portray all the emotion and sensuality – in terms of the five senses – that is evoked by experiencing it.”
“This show involves a mixture, mélange, of works from my daughter, my wife and myself,” he points out, “brought together for the first time in one presentation. It represents the blending of not only art forms, but also family ties and connections. The differences represent personalities and opinions, and the similarities represent a melding of minds and souls. We hope this is as gratifying for the viewers as it is for us.”
The WKNO Digital Media Center is located at 7151 Cherry Farms Road in Cordova, TN. The exhibit will be open to the public weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The show will run September 2-29.
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