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Diane Bronstein is the curator and one of the artists in “Underneath It All,” at Coconino Center for the Arts.
ries of changes namely getting smaller and cheaper to make. I typically have about 50 in the field at any given time and sometimes they go missing. So designing a discrete and inexpensive camera seems to mitigate their loss.”
“Right now I’m collecting cameras from the field that have been exposing since the fall equinox and preparing to put cameras out for the winter solstice,” Mr. Allred tells me. “These cameras will be in the field for six months until the summer solstice. I’m also working on different camera designs and even planning on converting a trailer into a huge camera on wheels.”
Mr. Allred comments on his work, “The sto- ries are stories of place and time. I don’t own them and they aren’t really about me,” he says. “If anything I see these photos as part of the human narrative at a time when we face climate change and are questioning the impact we have on the environment.
“Many of the photos are placed at the inter- section of industry and nature. As humans we have become masters of manipulating our environment but nature is always work- ing too. It’s a delicate balance, one which I hope we find before it’s too late.
“We refer to the sun as rising and setting but it is actually us who turns away at night and back around in the morning. Ultimately these images imply how narrowly we focus our lives and in comparison to the monu- mental motions of the heavens, how little time we experience. So I’ll leave you with a
question: ‘how does the sun shine for you?’” “The Arc of Time,” will be displayed in the Jewel Gallery at Coconino Center for the Arts
in conjunction with, “Underneath it All,” Jan- uary 12 through February 16, 2013.
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UNDERGARMENTS UNITE
“Underneath it All,” an exploration of body Image, gender and sexuality through art, opens this January at Coconino Center for the Arts.
Curator Diane Bronstein tells me how the idea for the show developed. “For over two years, I’ve been hand sewing lingerie and underwear from my drawings on paper and exhibiting them through juried shows about figure drawing, creating works with fiber or highlighting women’s issues,” she tells me. “A little over a year ago, I met Lisa Knox at her open studio in Boston. Seeing her beautiful charcoal drawings of lingerie found in an old bureau gave me an impetus to develop a proposal for a show on lingerie.
“I did some research on the internet and found only a few past shows with that theme. I was curious to see how other artists were creating lingerie. After checking hundreds of websites and thousands of images, I com- piled a list of women artists whose work I felt would complement each other and that fit the paradigm.”
“Lingerie has so many meanings in our society: the role or women, sexuality, gen- der, desire, privacy, and body image among