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	ArtSpace Norwich Gallery Opening September First 7pm 35 Chestnut St Norwich Ct. Two Artists, Two Mediums,Two Views of The Figure as an Artistic Statement Peter J. Crowley has worked with the figure for thirty five years as a Photographic Artist. The figure has always been a metaphor for Peter�s visual commentary.  Beginning with studies of the dancer and their wonderful use of the body as an instrument to portray emotions. Peter interpreted this movement into stills maintaining the emotion. His images began as classical photographic sculpture and have traveled through his career in the rapidly changing world of figure art through the equality and freedom of the seventies.  His work has looked back at the  Art Deco period and forward to images that appeared photo shopped before he had started to use the computer. His abstractions are evocative of Georgia O�Keefe. Milton Moore of the New London Day called these images Daliesque. Recent figure work has concentrated on the replacing of emotion with Possession. The work is a comment on the bottom line world full of photo shopped Barbies or GI Joes propelling "the Middle Class" to dance naked before the Golden Hummers off the end of the flat earth. www.peterjcrowley.com Joey Sage Jablonski is a ceramic artist who creates sculpture, wheel-thrown pottery and teaches clay art at her studio.  She has immersed herself in the world of art for the past 13 years after liberating herself from a corporate MBA career many would have called promising.  Joey apprenticed with a functional potter and has studied classical figure sculpture at Lyme Academy.  While she is an accomplished potter and teacher, this exhibit marks the beginning of showing her sculpture outside of her fall and spring open studio shows. About her sculptural work, she says, "I am fascinated with the figure... ourselves in human form and all that means... Our own perceptions versus those of others and those of society. In my work, I'm exploring the concepts of beauty and ugliness... and how that makes us feel.  It's not about the image, but then again, it is.  Body image... a particular and rapidly changing perspective on how we "represent" in the earthly  plane.  What does this conjure up for us emotionally?  The same image can give pleasure or pain.  Why?  What's the connection between the physical and that which is not of this earth?  I don't have the answer, but in my work I'm striving for images of the body, created with earth, which speak soulfully.
		Recent SHOW: INFECTIOUS CHRISTENING JOEY AND BERNIE RE SCULPTURE AND PAINTING NORWICH ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY JULY 6 - JULY 27 (click here for info)