Garrison Art Center Opens with Two Exhibitions on

May 31, 2008

Garrison Art Center announces the opening of two exciting exhibitions. Diana Carulli’s BOUSTROPHONE, in the Balter Gallery and Suzanna Frosch’s Sculptures & Constructions in the Gillette Gallery. These exhibitions will open with a reception to meet the artists on Saturday, May 31, from 5 - 7pm. All are welcome. The exhibitions will remain on view through June 22, 2008.

Carulli’s many years’ fascination with labyrinths confronts her with the bull of myth. In the Greek myth, King Minos asks Poseidon, god of the sea, to give him a sign whereby all the world will recognize him as its most powerful ruler. Poseidon presents him with an extraordinary white bull on the condition that Minos will sacrifice the bull back to him in a ritual that will confirm Minos’ dominance. Unable, however, to part with this beautiful bull, Minos substitutes another thereby incurring Poseidon’s wrath. The punishment he sends works first upon Minos’ Queen Pasifae who develops a passion for the bull with whom she creates the Minotaur. Half man, half bull the Minotaur is a human flesh consuming monster who must be hidden away in a labyrinth. In Boustrophone an earthly realm is conjured where forces of nature and those called supernatural work through us in mysterious ways. How the prehistoric patterns we call labyrinths came to be linked with this story may have to do with the way bulls move in fields (boustrephedon). From right to left and then left to right is also how many texts were first written. Thousands of years are condensed here between the pattern and the myth’s creation and our own time that finds us still making labyrinths and dealing with the irresistible bull.

An early interest in fine arts led Suzanna Frosch to University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she began exploring the construction of hand woven and printed textiles, graduating with a BFA in Fiber/Textile Design in 1984. She then continued her education at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills Michigan, graduating in 1987 with a MFA. While at Cranbrook Suzanna’s work was focused on the architectonic elements of woven cloth. After her education Suzanna moved back to New York where she maintained a studio while pursuing a career as a textile designer, working for such notable firms as Brunschwig & Fils, Calvin Klein and Donna Karan. In 1994, feeling the limitations inherent to commercial textiles, Suzanna began pursuing other avenues of expression through etching, painting and writing.

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