The O-town Scene

August 01, 2013

The O-town Scene - Oneonta, NY

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Artist of the Month: Wijnanda Deroo Adler Hotel, Sharon Springs, 2005.  About the Art "Wijnando Deroo, Interiors" opened in July at the West Kortright Centre in East Meredith. This gallery showing of photographs by Deroo features empty and abandoned but beautiful old bars and restaurants that abound in Delaware County. The exhibit is up through Aug. 25. Working in both color and black-andwhite, Deroo utilizes natural light and an absence of human subjects to create an atmosphere that draw the viewer in. Her photographs reflect her fascination with what people surround them with.  Deroo states that she prefers to work within a given situation, which at the moment she uses her camera, becomes an end-event situation. Working this way, the original atmosphere of a space lingers and the layers of history that have been lived there remain visible, long after the original inhabitants are gone. — from the West Kortright Centre Unadilla Long River Inn, 2012.  About the Artist Wijnanda Deroo was born in the Netherlands in 1955. She received a liberal arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem, where she later became a professor. Originally visiting New York City on sabbatical in 1988, she found herself a year later to be the recipient of an artist residency at P .S.1. Since then she has divided her time between Amsterdam and New York. Making the spaces in which we live and work the central concern of her photography, Deroo does not confine herself to any one walk of life. Instead, she turns the same incisive eye on government buildings in Russia as on mobile homes in upstate New York and synagogues on New York's Lower East Side. An avid collector of dollar-store Americana, Deroo offers up commentary on kitsch in her unlikely still-lifes of vases, plastic flowers and figurines. Her photographs are in collections worldwide, among them New York's Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, and the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv. She is represented by the Robert Mann Gallery in New York.  — provided by the artist Scott's, Deposit, 2012 August 1, 2013 O-Town Scene 7

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