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March 20, 2008

Art at Pine Harbour hosts new photography exhibit

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By ROBIN CAUDELL

eawakened: Photographs by Kimberly LeClaire and Noreen Sadue" is a contemplative show presented by Art at Pine Harbour.

"I wanted to name our exhibition something very alive," LeClaire said. "It's springtime. A lot of the work is inspirational and colorful."

She has been fascinated with images since childhood.

"I've always liked to take pictures. When I was really young, I would sit and go through our family's pictures over and over."

ALTERNATIVE PROCESS

Pictures were memory. At Chazy Central Rural School, she learned black-and-white photography. It was another artistic medium she could do.

"This wasn't the moment I would identify with being a photographer. When I went to college, I took a bunch of art classes, and it clicked. I loved my teacher, Rebecca Solderholm. She really liked my work. We had a lot to talk about."

LeClaire concentrated on alternative processes such as liquid emulsion, cyanotype and kodalith. Her work features people within landscapes. At present, she is at work on a Master of Fine Arts degree at Johnson State College in Vermont.

In "Reawakened," she explores another alternative process, Polaroid emulsion lifts, which she learned in a one-on-one workshop with artist Eleanor Sweeney.

"It really clicked, because I could do it at home. That was key. I can't have a wet room here. You cannot throw wet-room chemicals down your drain. Digital is really expensive. I can't afford that right now."

VERSATILE IMAGES

With lifts, LeClaire makes Polaroids from slides.

"You contact the back of the Polaroid with contact paper. You heat it up in warm water, and the image comes off the paper. You can manipulate it any way you like. You can cut the image. You can fold the image. Adhere it to paper, glass, wood and fabric. It's versatile in that way."

LeClaire compositions integrate young women.

"It's not really about them. It's not a portrait."

She has a thing for blackbirds and ravens.

"The raven is my spirit animal. I did a series of four prints of ravens flying. Again, it's not a portrait of a raven."

QUIET MOMENTS

Sadue's photographs arose from a still time in her life.

"My images are about stillness, those quiet moments when you're sitting there noticing things."

Also a painter and print maker, photography entered her life during her second year at the Junior College of Albany.

"I really enjoyed the class, and I think what it taught me the most was how to look at the world differently. I started to notice things that I probably wouldn't have noticed. I didn't just snap pictures anymore. I really looked at things and had an idea of what I wanted to portray."

She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the New York Institute of Technology and a Master of Art at Goddard College. Since 1991, in the Saranac Central School District, she has taught art, including black-and-white and digital photography.

"The thing I most get out of it, I am able as a teacher to show my students how to look at the world differently."

SHAPES OF LIGHT

Her digital photos on exhibit are straight and manipulated. "Singing Bowl" was inspired by watching sunlight change quickly against a wall.

"I was fascinated by the shapes of light. That happened to inspire me to take that still-life photo of the singing bowl on the meditation table in that room."

How light hits and falls in the natural landscape and on objects captivates Sadue.

"In black and white, that has to be really evident," she said. "I'm a very color-oriented person, too. I decided to have these images in black and white. I wanted to simplify them more and have the viewer look at the images and not be looking at the color. Color can really change the look of the photo.

"I wanted them to look at the specific image without the color."

rcaudell@pressrepublican.com


If you go
WHAT: "Reawakened: Photographs by Kimberly LeClaire and Noreen Sadue," presented by Pine Harbour and Norte Maar.
WHEN: Through May 10. Opening reception 6 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 28.
WHERE: Pine Harbour Assisted Living, 15 New Hampshire Ave., Plattsburgh.
HOURS: Daily from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
PHONE: 561-5307.

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