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    TWO NEW GALLERY EXHIBITS TO BEGIN THE SPRING SEMESTER
    Sam Kestenbaum

    Wheaton Wire
    http://media.www.thewheatonwire.com/media/sto rage/paper1134/news/2009/02/04/ArtsCulture/Two-New .Gallery.Exhibits.To.Begin.The.Spring.Semester-361 0939.shtml
    Feb 4 2009
    MA

    On Sunday, Jan. 25, two art exhibits opened in the Beard and Weil
    Galleries in the Watson Fine Arts' building- "Recent Work," by Wheaton
    Professors Tim Cunard and Patty Stone and "Exploring Modernism,"
    a collection of work from the acclaimed American-Armenian Boston
    artist Garabed Derhohannesian.

    Professor Cunard's most recent work is constructed out of concrete,
    found steel, wax and iron. Many of these pieces grew out of a visit
    to a nearby trash-heap. Cunard saw piles of abandoned "buckles,
    catches, parachute rings, tool parts, and gun-sights"-and he was
    inspired. Cunard incorporated some of these found industrial objects
    into his own forms, creating sculptures which interestingly call to
    mind delicate objects from the natural world: ferns, pods and flowers.

    When working on these pieces Cunard set a number of rules
    for himself: "enjoy the labor," limit his time working, do not
    "over-intellectualize" the work, "trust his eye," and permit the work
    to flow naturally.

    Many Wheaton art students were in attendance on Sunday. Students who
    typically interact with their professors only within the classroom
    are now able to see another side to their teachers; they can see them
    as artists.

    "I see roads and rivers, but I also see other shapes, imaginary and
    abstract," Kait Saaf '09 reflected. Inspired by roadmaps, dreams,
    memories, and GoogleEarth, Stone has crafted a body of mixed-media
    paintings, a "meditation" on how we make sense of our "interconnected
    world," Stone says. She has created her latest images which, in her
    words, illuminate the "tension between real place... and the abstract
    patterning of roads, cities and topography."

    Garabed Derhohannesian (1908-1992) was one of Boston's most acclaimed
    artists. His "Exploring Modernism" is a collection of work spanning
    60 years of his career from 1929 to 1989. Born in nearby Newton to
    Armenian parents, Derhohannesian attended the Massachusetts School of
    Art in Boston as an undergrad and taught at the Rhode Island School
    of Design until 1973. His work is displayed in the Guggenheim Museum
    in New York.

    Though not as familiar to the student body, Derhohannesian's "Exploring
    Modernism" is a diverse body of work and well worth a visit. On Sunday
    afternoon, students crowded around one of her paintings. "I've never
    heard of Garabed before," Ross Culliton '09 admitted. "But these are
    really great."

    "Exploring Modernism" and "Recent Work" are on display Jan. 25 to
    Feb. 25 in Beard and Weil Galleries, Watson Fine Arts.
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