May 2 through June 12, 2004 UPPER GALLERY Cartoonist George Booth The cartoonist George Booth brings a rural Missouri boyhood--where his mother taught all eight grades in a country school house, odd grades one year, evens the next--into that center of cosmopolitanism, the New Yorker. Educated at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran School of Art in Washington and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and a longtime resident of Stony Brook, New York, Booth focuses his most sophisticated country lens on The City, and us all. The results are particularly telling for those who live in Upstate/Downstate New York. And unfailingly funny. Booth's people live in perpetual clutter, betting on the dream around the next corner. We believe in them, and in his clear and generous eye. Tommy Brown '79 Photographs of New York With camera in hand, Tommy Brown is always asking himself, "What's new?" Although he claims that his technique is old and his approach anachronistic, his images are fresh and his vision novel. Brown received his first camera, a pre-war Leica, when he was twelve. He describes the camera as "hard to see through, the lens elements had some sort of fungus on them, and the shutter didn't work very well - but, with a very cool silver lens cap lined with red felt." The artifact was enough to seduce Brown and, thirty-five years later, he is still making pictures. A 1979 graduate of Colgate, Brown received a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Art. Since that time, he has worked professionally and lived locally in Oxford, New York taking pictures in upstate and downstate New York. Skylines to Sidewalks: Etchings by Joseph Pennell and Martin Lewis Colgate Student Intern Exhibition In their prints of New York, Joseph Pennell and Martin Lewis present the city as a beacon of modernity. Focusing on soaring skyscrapers, Pennell emphasized innovative architecture while Lewis depicted the picturesque daily life of New York through people on the streets. Although very different printmakers, Pennell and Lewis both captured the vitality of the city as they documented it with atmospheric effects. The juxtaposition of their prints highlights the unique character of New York City created by its architecture and the people who inhabit it. Graduation Weekend Friday, May 14, 2004 4:30 - 6:00 pm Reception and gallery talk Skylines to Sidewalks: Etchings by Joseph Pennell and Martin Lewis Picker Art Gallery Student Intern Curators Terrill Hosford '04 and Lindsey Slenger '04 Reunion Weekend Friday, June 4, 2004 2:00 pm, 114 Little Hall Artist talk New Yorker Cartoonist George Booth 2:45 - 5:00 pm, The Picker Art Gallery Reception 3:30 pm, Upper Gallery Gallery talk by artist Tommy Brown '79 Photographs of New York

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