Digital photographs are "Mirrors of Creation" in Gallery exhibit at HACC
Aug. 31, 2010
HARRISBURG – The Rose Lehrman Art Gallery on the Harrisburg Campus of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College will be vibrant with the colorful digital photographs of Jim Hartsen in the next exhibit, “Mirrors of Creation.” The upstate New York resident’s works will be on display Sept. 22-Oct. 21. A lecture will be from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, in the digital photography lab, room 228 of Hall Technology Center, with a reception following from 6:30-8 p.m. in the gallery.
Hartsen’s untitled images are rich in saturated color and cause the viewer to ask “What is it?” and “Where is It?”, though the artist describes the process of taking and viewing the photographs as one of self discovery.
Hartsen recently exhibited a one-man show at Image City Gallery in Rochester, N.Y., and his work has been published in “Aperture” magazine. Hartsen owns and operates Jim Hartsen Fine Art Photography in Williamson, N.Y.
The professional photographer has a degree in photographic illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology where he studied with instructor Charlie Arnold. After graduating Hartsen studied with internationally renowned photographer Minor White and with National Geographic photographer Dick Durance.
Hartsen photographs from “The Zone,” a Minor White technique wherein the photographer brings his full attention to the subject, forming a connection with the subject in the moment. According to Hartsen, “When you have given yourself over to a subject and it has given itself over to you, when there is a resonance, sometimes something else steps into that space and takes over, the result being more than the sum of photographer and subject.”
Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday, 5-7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, or by appointment. For more information, call 780-2435 or e-mail Kim Banister, gallery curator, at kebanist@hacc.edu. Visit the gallery on the HACC website: www.hacc.edu under the Rose Lehrman Arts Center and on Facebook.
