THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, April 21, 1996 TAG: 9604190258
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 22 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
LENGTH: Short : 42 lines
``Elastic Visions,'' an exhibition featuring computer images created by national and regional artists, will open at 6 p.m. May 2 in a joint celebration with the Virginia Beach Sumi-e Society's ``Secrets of the Orient'' exhibit.
``Elastic Visions'' features 20 computer artists who weave photographic images and hand-painted surfaces, figures abstracted into textures, typographical elements and an eclectic collection of symbols from past cultures, together with electronic symbols.
Nancy Jackson Freeman, an artist exhibiting in the display, will present a pre-opening lecture, ``Art of the Information Age,'' at 5:30 p.m. in room 209 of the Tidewater Community College Visual Arts Center, 340 High St. At 10 a.m. May 3, Freeman will give a talk on ``Elastic Visions'' as part of the Docent Orientation Program.
``Elastic Visions'' is on loan from Zoller Gallery, School of Visual Arts, Pennsylvania State University.
Secrets of the Orient'' opens this Friday and will feature Oriental brush painting, which originated in China centuries ago and spread throughout Japan and Korea.
The Sumi-e Society member artists use a variety of styles from representational to abstract, and purely oriental to Western. Most of the Oriental brush painters use the same tools and similar techniques: the Oriental ink brush, ink, inkstone and handmade rice paper.
``Secrets of the Orient'' continues through June 2.
The opening reception is free to museum members, $3 for non-members. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
Anatomy Lesson, by Dorothy Simpson Krause
by CNB