TELLING

Albany Center Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming show TELLING, which will run from Oct. 13 to Nov. 13, with a reception to be held from 5pm to 8pm on Friday, Nov. 6. The show features artwork by Jane McCambley, Theresa McTague, Josette Pastore, and Alana Sparrow.

TELLING is named for the attention to narration and story that can be found within these four artists’ work. Dealing with themes of memory and various interpretations of the medium of collage, the show offers viewers a chance to immerse themselves in a fascinating visual dialogue.

McCambley is a recent graduate of SUNY New Paltz, where she earned her BFA in painting. She currently lives in Schenectady, N.Y., and is active in the local and regional art community. She uses collage as a lens through which she can control and alter how the viewer sees the past. Her work creates memories within layers that often instill the viewer with a sense of perplexing nostalgia.

McTague graduated from Purchase School of art + Design with a BFA. She is currently, at the University at Albany, where she teaches three-dimensional design while working toward an MFA in Combined Media. McTague’s collage work uses fragments of both tangible materials, such as fabric and letters, and intangible materials, such as audio recordings and projected images. Using these often forgotten or disregarded relics, she constructs a new memoryscape, hinting at past lives of the materials.

Pastore earned her BFA in studio art from SUNY Fredonia and her master's degree in art education from The College of Saint Rose. She currently lives in Duanesburg, N.Y., and works as an art teacher at the Mayfield Central School District. In her artwork, she pursues an interest in the permeability of mental and physical boundaries. She explores this through remaining objects that may appear inconsequential into skins that bear new weight and meaning.

Sparrow has a dual BFA from Eastern New Mexico University in 2D design and is currently earning her MFA in graphic design at the Academy of Art University. She founded and is creative director of The Foundry for Art, Design, and Culture, an abandoned building turned community art center. Sparrow has received over 21 design industry awards during her 25 years of experience as a designer and artist. Her work is shaped by her interest in the ephemeral, unfinished, and imperfect. Using fragments of found objects, she creates intimate, poetic works that question power and fragility, sacred and mundane, and remembering and forgetting.

The public is invited to attend the opening reception and meet the artists on Friday, Nov, 6th, from 5pm to 8pm, at Albany Center Gallery, 39 Columbia Street, Albany, N.Y..

Thank you to our Exhibit Sponsors Michael & Amy Uccellini.