Environmental Artist Depicts Experience
Posted September 6, 2006FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
YORK, Pa. – An environmental artist will display paintings depicting her Northern Rainforest and Great Barrier Beef experiences.
Tropical Topographies: Paintings by Christine Baeumler, will open Wednesday, Sept. 6 at York College of Pennsylvania Galleries in Evelyn and Earle Wolf Hall. Opening reception is from 7 – 9 p.m. and the exhibit will run thru Sept. 24.
On opening night, Baeumler will also be giving a free public lecture at 7 p.m. in the Evelyn and Earle Wolf Hall, Recital Hall, titled “Large Birds, Small Whales and Five-Legged Frogs.” The slide lecture will cover threatened species and ecological systems, particularly on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia.
Filled with saturated color and dissolving forms, Baeumler’s paintings make one aware of these fragile ecosystems that are becoming increasingly foreign to modern, urban humankind.
“My concern lies not only with the diminishment of these ecosystems and species that inhabit them, but also with the extinction of the human experience and knowledge of these environments,” says Baeumler.
An important work in her exhibit is her sound installation, Beneath the Coral Sea, that includes a video of the painter’s swim with dwarf minke whales accompanied by recordings of the whales’ sound layered with narration.
For more information call 815-1528.
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