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Exhibit of the Photography of Astrid Reischwitz, Street Art, portfolio,

Exhibit of the Photography

of Astrid Reischwitz, Street Art, portfolio,


Now
through January 15, 2014


Gallery hours: 
9:00 to 5:00 from Monday to Friday-closed on weekends.

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For more information, call Munroe Center for the Arts.
781-862-6040.


Photographer Astrid Reischwitz’ portfolio, Street

Art,
incorporates her fascination with street art murals and the diversity

of urban life in the midst of it. 
Street Art will be on display at the Gallery at the Munroe Center for
the Arts thru January 15, 2014.

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This exhibition is organized and supported
by The Lexington Council for the Arts.


STREET ART


In this series of
photographs I am interested in capturing the interactions and relations between Street Art, passer-by and urban environment.  Street Art is an art form brought directly to the viewer, in many cases without any prior selection by curators, art critics or the media. In composing each photograph I position myself near existing Street Art, often in lonely, urban areas, and then wait for people to walk by. Through their reactions or
lack of reaction to the artworks they become both viewers of and
participants in an art making process. The people in these pieces become a part
of an art event themselves.  Ripped paper or the application of paint over the original art work documents traces of former interactions with the art by unknown participants and shows another layer of art mediated by urban life. By choosing the specific street art in its unique, if out of the way location, I maintain a degree of control over the process while having no control over the people or actions that will become an inherent part of the photograph.  I often use a slow shutter speed to underscore the fragile and transient character of the artwork as well as people passing by.





 





 





 

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