{"id":63476,"date":"2015-08-29T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63476"},"modified":"2015-08-29T11:15:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T15:15:06","slug":"morrisville-college-professors-photos-going-on-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63476","title":{"rendered":"Morrisville College Professor\u2019s Photos Going on Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Timothy Gerken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Morrisville, NY \u2013 Aug. 2015) The work of Morrisville State College Professor Timothy Gerken will be on display at the 39th Street Gallery at the Gateway Arts Center in Prince George County, Maryland\u00a0Sept. 12 through Oct. 22.<\/p>\n

The photography show, titled\u00a0\u201cContradictions and that Line about Self-Destruction,\u201d\u00a0aims at trying to understand the way people organize or structure their lives.<\/p>\n

Gerken, a writer and photographer, lives in Garrattsville, located in the Leatherstocking region of Central New York.<\/p>\n

His photography is documentary, capturing solitary moments, structures, spaces, objects and their surroundings.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of my work focuses on built culture and infrastructure, much of it built below or beyond our line of sight and much of it built for our cars. We often miss even the most obvious elements of infrastructure as we cruise across the country or head out to grab a gallon of milk,\u201d Gerken said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur cars encourage us to look toward our destination, our future. The familiar passes beyond the obvious and is forgotten. Spaces no longer economically viable (the past) decay around us as new structures get built beside them: an endless process. A photograph suspends that process,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Gerken\u2019s passion for art is further demonstrated on the MSC campus where he organizes and curates the college\u2019s Martin Luther King Gallery Show, directs, organizes and coordinates the Butcher Library Gallery Art shows, and coordinates donations of artwork to the Morrisville College Foundation.<\/p>\n

He also curated \u201cChanging Landscape\u201d at the Earlville Opera House and created \u201cFloating,\u201d a video installation on the Hamilton Green.<\/p>\n

Gerken publishes regularly in magazines and small journals and has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow and Edward Albee Foundation Fellow. His work has also been on exhibit in New York City and Palm Springs.<\/p>\n

Serving as MSC\u2019s faculty senator, Gerken is also a member of the College Senate\u2019s Executive Committee, serves as the SUNY University Faculty Senate (UFS) Technical-sector representative, is a member of the UFS Executive Committee, and is chair of the UFS Ad-hoc Committee on LGBT Matters in SUNY.<\/p>\n

Gerken earned a Ph.D. in education, language, literacy and learning from Fordham University, an M.F.A. in poetry writing from Brooklyn College, an M.S. in secondary school certification from Southern Connecticut State University, and a B.S. in personnel management from Clarion University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

An opening reception for Gerken will be on\u00a0Saturday Sept. 12, from\u00a05 to 8 p.m.\u00a0at the 39th\u00a0Street Gallery, located five miles from downtown Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

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(Morrisville, NY \u2013 Aug. 2015) The work of Morrisville State College Professor Timothy Gerken will be on display at the 39th Street Gallery at the Gateway Arts Center in Prince George County, Maryland\u00a0Sept. 12 through Oct. 22. The photography show, titled\u00a0\u201cContradictions and that Line about Self-Destruction,\u201d\u00a0aims at trying to understand the way people organize or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}