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Joint Exhibition: Jon Meyer and Carl Chiarenza

  • Through This Lens Gallery 303 East Chapel Hill Street Durham, NC, 27701 United States (map)

Exhibition of images by Jon Meyer and Collages by Carl Chiarenza.

Just Another Pretty Landscape

This is a series about the artistry in form that is necessitated by the function of economically creating a product. I think of this project as a sort of riff on the theme of Beauty and the Beast: the Beast was not attractive on the outside but was on the inside, once you got to know him.

Just Another Pretty Landscape

Collages by Carl Chiarenza

Carl Chiarenza is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor Emeritus of Art History, and Artist-in-Residence, at the University of Rochester.  He was Fanny Knapp Allen Professor there (1986-1998). At Boston University (1963-1986), he was Chairman, Director of Graduate Studies, and Professor of Art History.  He also taught at Smith College and Cornell University. He is the author of numerous essays and of the critical biography, Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors (Little, Brown, Boston, 1982). His photographs have been seen in over 90 one-person, and in over 280 group exhibitions since 1957.