The Dark Room
Photography and installation by Deborah Renee Kaplan
Exhibition: April 30 – June 1, 2002
Deborah Kaplan is a graduate student at Yale in the Sculpture Department. Her show for the public at the York Square Gallery follows her MFA exhibition in March at the Yale Holcombe Greene Gallery on Chapel Street in New Haven. Her work explores aspects of perception in the casting of shadows, and the objectification of forms -- also seen generating space in three dimensions. "A shadow tells us something exists," she says.
Ms. Kaplan’s work is in the collections of art theorist Arthur C. Danto
and sculptor Leonard Baskin. While a student of Baskin at Hampshire College,
he said of her work, "Kaplan possesses that incalculably rare capacity
to perceive reality in a Piazzetta-like smudge of sfumatso, a reality that
is a once delicate and strong, evocative and declarative, atmospheric and palpable.
In her studies
of Michelangelo’s searchings, she seems to have absorbed great pictorial riches
from their felicities and powers."
Deborah Kaplan has shown her work at the McKee Gallery, NYC; and at the Corcoran
Gallery, Washington, DC. Her work has been selected by curators from the Museum
of Modern Art for
various gallery shows in the US.
Before coming to Yale School of Art, Kaplan studied in France at the New School
for Social Research, at the Lacoste Program though the Cleveland School of Art,
and at the Marchutz School
of Drawing, Painting & Art Criticism, in Aix-in-Provence. She studied at
the New York Studio School for four years, where she received a scholarship
to study at the Chatauqua School of Art in upstate New York, and was nominated
to study at Skowhegan. After graduating, she received the Excellence in Sculpture
and Painting Merit Award.
Ms. Kaplan has recently worked as a Teaching Assistant for "Intro Sculpture,"
at the Yale School
of Art. In 1999 and 2000, she taught "Experimental Art," at Henry
Street Settlement, NYC. In addition, since Fall of 2000, she has served in the
Graduate-Professional Student Senate, and as a Student Representative in the
Yale School of Art. In her poetry, she also describes the motives and perceptions
that inform her artwork.
The York Square Cinema Gallery
61 Broadway, New Haven, CT
Gallery
curator, Johnes Ruta,
(203) 387-4933,