The Washington Post's Impulsive Traveler came to Erie this month to explore ice dunes and art. Read the entire article, written by Robin Soslow. The author writes about exploring our beautiful Presque Isle State Park to spot ice dunes (which I'm not sure there are too many in existence currently) and warming up at the Erie Art Museum.
For those of us who are not fans of the cold weather, the art museum has two exhibits that let us encounter nature without needing to brave the frigid temperatures.
One of those exhibits, Carol Posch Comstock - Lake Effect Lace, is my mom's, where after four years of photographing snowflakes, the entire Ronald E. Holstein Gallery has been turned into a snow globe of her work.
How does she do it? Carol Posch Comstock will present a free Gallery Talk this Friday, January 20, at 7 p.m. in the Erie Art Museum's Multipurpose Room. Visitors will view her exhibit and learn about the photographic process using a digital camera and microscope to capture fleeting visions of the delicate natural wonders. Of course, if you're from Erie, this may not be the first you are hearing about her show. She was featured in Lake Erie Lifestyles' December issue and her show was reviewed in the Erie Times-News Showcase today.
If you can't make the Gallery Talk, the show will remain up until February 25. (And, don't forget, the Erie Art Museum is free on Wednesdays.)
Brrrr. I get chilly just looking at these photographs.
2 comments:
so those are real snowflakes, huh?! crazy!!!
I scraped some comments from Luke Gehrig's views, posted at Erie Reader. This is my second comment there, with respect to the article.
Danny Lucas 2 minutes ago
Yes, S. Phillips.......your perceptions are keen and correct.
Ironically, Comstock's daughter also wrote on this and titled her post "Erie's Beauty Captured".
Notice by the headline alone, our entire community is changed from "rust belt" to Beauty in one phrase!
Luke missed that entirely.
But the kicker is the people who count, people who do NOT know Erie and all her charms and beauty, the people who are tourists DID notice what Luke failed to capture.
In the link below, to "Erie's Beauty Captured", there is a hyperlink in the first paragraph, for you to see perception from OUTSIDE Erie people.
Amazingly, this Art Exhibit made it into a recent Washington Post piece on the Impulsive Traveler!
Our town went national and the review sparkles.
The piece moves you to visit and is a compliment to Erie throughout.
Why?
It complements the type of people we are in this town!
I cannot explain Luke's glimpse and need for new glasses to view all we have to offer, but a wayfarer picked up and expressed what Luke composted as failure.
It pays to read around, and select the very best that the Internet has to offer.
Luke saw Lake Effect Lice, but here is Lake Effect Lace in all her charms:
"The Washington Post's Impulsive Traveler came to Erie this month to explore ice dunes and art.
Read the entire article, written by Robin Soslow. "
~~~ from And Then I Found $5
http://andthenifound5dollars.b...
S Phillips 2 hours ago
I am puzzled by this review. I read it initially last week. Now I have returned to try again and again, I don't understand the tone of this review. The reviewer seems to really dislike the artist, Carol Comstock. The personal jabs and very lightly veiled insults are not constructive but exude the odor of personal vendetta. I expect an art review to be a little lighter and instructive for the audience. I doubt very much that I will read this reviewer again. I prefer to be drawn into an exhibit not look at it with a bad taste in my mind.
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