Alumni of Haverford and Bryn Mawr
Colleges will be featured in a new art exhibit at Haverford.
Linda Hoffman (BMC ’79), Tim Loose (HC ’68), and
Henry Richardson (HC ’83) will display their sculptures
and photography as part of Haverford’s Alumni Art Show,
running May 30-September 21 in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery.
Hoffman’s work, titled Stations
of the Heart, consists of seven sculptures created with old
tools, cloth, metal, and found objects from the New England
landscape. Inspired by the Biblical Stations of the Cross,
the pieces are meant to reflect the struggles and paradoxes
of humanity.
Tim Loose '68
Photographer Loose will display
approximately twenty of his landscape platinum/palladium prints
from 1995-2002. In using platinum and palladium to form an
image, Loose mixes his own emulsion and hand-coats the paper
to create a blend of printmaking and photography. These recent
works show Loose’s interest in using very long exposures
to closely capture water, separating it from its landscape
and allowing its flow pattern to emerge as its own image.
Richardson’s exhibit, “The
Tipping Point,” includes the title sculpture, a shelf
of glass balanced on a mortar shell with lenses bonded underneath
and two units of soldiers—one of U.S. Special Forces
and one of Star Wars’ Imperial Troopers—below;
“Demos,” a stone supported by columns of glass;
and “Tikkun,” a 5,000 pound, six foot, hollow
crystalline sphere created out of layered circles of reconstructed,
fractured glass.
Henry Richardson '83
Before coming to Bryn Mawr, Linda
Hoffman studied at La Sorbonne Nouvelle and Ecole Jacques
Lecoq, International School of Masks, Movement and Theater
in Paris, France, and later at the Japanese Noh Theater in
Kyoto, Japan. Her work has been exhibited all across New England
and at The Ralls Collection in Washington, D.C., the Center
for Book Arts in New York City, NY, and the Wichita Center
for the Arts in Wichita, Kansas. It can also be found in the
collections of Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges, New York
University, the Houghton Library of Harvard, and the Boston
Public Library. Hoffman is a past recipient of a Watson Traveling
Fellowship to Japan, the Groton Conservation Trust Environmental
Award for the creation and design of a small park in Groton,
Mass., and First Prize from the Cambridge Art Association
National Juried Show. She created the sculpture “Masks
for the Furies in Aeschylus’ Oresteia” for Haverford
College, and her art was last shown at the College during
the 1998 alumni exhibition.
Tim Loose, currently a biology
and photography teacher and staff photographer at Westtown
School in Westtown, Pa., is known for his freelance photographs
of wildlife, scientific subjects, and bicycle racing. His
pictures have appeared in such United States cycling periodicals
as Bicycle Guide and Cycling U.S.A., and his wildlife and
scientific photos can be found in Audubon and associated publications
and field guides. He has exhibited at Westtown School, the
Main Line Arts Center, the Delaware Art Museum, William Penn
Charter School, and Culver-Stockton College in Culver, Mo.
He was a finalist in the 1994 Sierra Club International Photo
Contest (Wildlife) and received an Honorable Mention at the
Pennsylvania Farm Show 1st Annual Juried Show in 1999.
Henry Richardson uses fractured
flat glass to create sculpture, and founded a new technique
in vertically bonding thick fractured plate glass. His work
has been featured at the Heller Gallery in New York, the “20th
Anniversary Show” at the Holstein Galleries of Contemporary
Glass Sculpture in Stockbridge, Mass., the “Glass Invitational
1998” at Handsel Gallery in Santa Fe, N.M., and the
“Art of Glass” at Kane Marie Gallery in Virginia
Beach, Va. He has created works for many private collections,
as well as for the Grand Foyer of the Sculpture, Object, and
Functional Art Show at Navy Pier in Chicago, Il.
Located in Whitehead Campus Center,
the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is open Monday-Friday from 11
a.m.-3 p.m. from June-August. In September, the Gallery will
be open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and weekends from noon-5
p.m. An opening reception will be held Friday, May 30, at
the Gallery from 4:30-6 p.m. For more information, call (610)
896-1287.
