Echoes: A Visual Reflection Art Exhibit to be Displayed at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross opens its second exhibition of the academic year with "Echoes: A Visual Reflection," photographs by Richard S. Buswell. The exhibit will be on display from Nov. 12 - Dec. 14; the gallery will be closed Nov. 21 - 24.

There will be an artist talk on Monday, Nov. 12, at 5 p.m. in the gallery. The talk will be followed by a reception; all are invited to attend.

A Montana resident and practicing physician, Buswell has been an active photographer since 1971. This exhibition represents over 25 years of his photographic work and was organized originally by the Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Montana. It has traveled nationally for several years, and has been shown at the Plains Art Museum, Fargo, N.D., and the Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Mont. This will be Buswell's first solo show in the New England area.

Buswell's images explore the junction where decaying artifacts become visual echoes of the Montana frontier. According to Buswell these images are not intended as nostalgia or necessarily to document; they remind us of the great odds against which people lived then – the austerity, the harshness, the isolation. The imagery also explores the junction when Nature and Man met.

Concurrent with Buswell's photography showing at the gallery will be two smaller exhibitions of selected photographs from the permanent collection of the Cantor Art Gallery. They are gifts from James T. Beale Jr., Holy Cross Class of 1965.

Dorothy Norman (1905-1997) was known principally during her lifetime as a writer, editor and reporter. Her works include, "The Hero: Myth/Image Symbol," 1969; "Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer," 1973; and the periodical, Twice a Year, published from 1938-48. Encouraged by Alfred Stieglitz, Norman began a remarkable career as a photographer as well as a writer in the early 1930s. Among her favorite subjects were the avant-garde artists and intellectuals associated with Stieglitz and herself in the 30s and 40s in New York City.

Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) was the son of the acclaimed expressionist painter Lyonel Feininger. He studied architecture at the Bauhaus with LeCorbusier where his interest in modern architecture began. Feininger did over 400 assignments for LIFE Magazine much of which were devoted to recording the vibrancy of the life and times of New York City in the 1940s and 50s. The portfolio being shown includes some of the finest images of New York photographed by Feininger.

The hours for the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. It is located in O'Kane Hall at the College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, Mass., 01610; phone: 508/793-3356. Admission to the gallery is free.