Noyes Cultural Arts Center
First Floor Gallery
Sight Unseen
September 10 - November 6, 2014
Opening Artists’ Reception
Sunday, September 14, 3pm - 5pm
Light refreshments will be served
Sight Unseen
Exhibition of photographs by
Ilze Arajs, Larry Chait, and Jean Sousa
curated by Alan Leder
The photographs in "Sight Unseen" closely examine the ephemeral beauty of natural forms while revealing rich metaphors to our own life cycles of birth, growth, and decay. In these series of photos, Arajs, Chait, and Sousa investigate and visually transform the commonplace in the environment: weathered leaves, multi-hued bark, flower petals, newly sprouted ferns unfurling. Sensuous, anthropomorphic shapes emerge, spectral figural forms meld with petals and grasses. In a decaying leaf, elements of abstraction are revealed that evoke intimate yet vast surfaces to explore.
Noyes Cultural Arts Center
927 Noyes Street
Evanston, IL 60201
Gallery Hours: Monday-Saturday: 10am-7pm; Sunday 10am-6pm
cityofevanston.org/noyesgallery; 847-448-8260
Admission to the reception and exhibit are free and open to the public. Public parking is available at the Center and on nearby streets. This program is sponsored by the City of Evanston and supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
