Building 3, ROOM 100
March 19, 2010 to April 11, 2010
Photography Exhibition
Admission: Free, Open to public
Parking: Main Parking Lot
Composite photography exhibition by nationally-renowned artist Tama Hochbaum. This timely installation was inspired by Lewis Carroll's classic tale Alice in Wonderland and by the artist's daughter, Claire.
Opening reception March 19, 2010 from 6-9pm.
Artist Statement
I came to photography from painting, on a road that began with drawing and printmaking. Thirty years ago I took my first drawing class with Michael Mazur at Brandeis University in Boston. I studied printmaking there, and in Paris in 1975-76, at Atelier 17. I came home to become a painter, which I did for 20 years. I still think of myself as a painter, with a camera instead of a brush. At the outset of my life with a camera I worked mostly in black and white, exploring a sense of the ephemeral - extended moments, slowed, remembered time. I have returned, of late, to working in color. Not the alchemist's color of an oil painter's palette, colors of invented imagery, but rather a photographic one, using the colors of the given world and then either documenting or transforming them. It is through the viewfinder, or the computer screen, that I can now describe the world in chromatic terms.
Hochbaum Bio:
Tama Hochbaum was born in NYC in 1953. She graduated from Brandeis University in 1975 where she studied drawing and printmaking. Upon graduating from Brandeis, Ms. Hochbaum was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship to study printmaking in Paris. She also traveled throughout Europe, visiting museums and drawing from the old masters. It was at this time that she decided she wanted to paint and returned home to study at Queens College in New York where she received her MFA in 1981. She worked for many years as a painter and as a graphic designer in Newton, Massachusetts, creating her own design company in 1985. In 1991, during a four-month stay in Italy, an old interest in photography that had begun during her time in Paris re-emerged. In 1996, she and her family moved to North Carolina. The interest in photography of 1991 became something of an obsession at that point. She is represented by the George Lawson Gallery in San Francisco. She has had one person exhibitions in both San Francisco and Gualala, California, as well as Boston, Massachusetts, Cincinnati, Ohio and throughout the Triangle. Her work is included in the collections of both the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the William Benton Museum in Storrs Connecticut, as well as numerous private collections.
