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.
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.
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.
