This fall, the Cazenovia Public Library will showcase the work of local artist Allyn Stewart in the Art Gallery. The featured exhibition, Patterns & Motifs: New Work on Paper, is a celebration of pattern, form, and color.
Stewart explains: “I see patterns every time I step out my front door; the grate in the street, decorative elements on a house, the thin slats of picket fences. I see form in the repeating telephone poles and color in the gardens in my neighborhood. The work in this exhibition is meant to reflect the natural world around me.”
The exhibition, on display through the end of November, includes a collection of collages and artist books, all composed using Adobe Photoshop. Digital technology was an integral part of the creative process, serving as a mark making tool, an image manipulation tool, and a means to explore form and color.
“While the design of the work begins always with color as a mechanism for organizing the content, it soon veers into a myriad number of creative decisions about image choices, texture, balance, symmetry and so forth,” states Stewart.
Allyn Stewart has been an Assistant Professor in the Visual Communications Program at Cazenovia College since 2000. She holds degrees from Syracuse University and Duquesne University. She previously taught as an Assistant Professor in the Graphic Design Program at Marywood University in Scranton, Penn.
She also taught at Colgate University in the Art and Art History Department and at Syracuse University in the Communication Design and the Art Media Studies Programs. Stewart has co-produced, directed, edited, and videotaped a number of video documentaries. Her art videos have received considerable recognition and won numerous awards.
For more information, call 655-9322 or visit www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org.