Starting Aug. 29 and running through Oct. 17, the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center will host a show titled “Collage + Assemblage.”
Sam Tenney / The Citizen
Artist Jill Doscher stands in her Skaneateles studio. Doscher is the only local artist featured in the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Museum's upcoming “Collage + Assemblage” exhibit.
Artist Jill Doscher stands in her Skaneateles studio. Doscher is the only local artist featured in the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Museum's upcoming “Collage + Assemblage” exhibit.
This will be a show featuring art created with at least three elements, combining such media as paper, cloth, wood or found objects.
Skaneateles-based artist Jill Doscher is no stranger to this kind of creation, nor to the Schweinfurth.
“I served on the board for three years,” Doscher said. “And Stephanie (Schuster) at the museum knew me and knew my work and when they were putting this show together, she asked me if I would like to be a part of it. Stephanie came out to my studio and looked at some of my pieces and helped decide what would be in the show. I've done a lot of collage work, so I think this is great.”
These days, Doscher is an almost full-time artist.
She and her husband, Gary Trento, who were both educators at Syracuse University, still teach part-time at Onondaga Community College, but Doscher is fortunate to be able to pursue her creativity as much as she pleases in her home studio.
Much of her focus now is presently on the design and creation of what she terms unique fabrics, which may seem different from collage work, but is not really that far removed.
“I'm working on that a lot right now,” Doscher said. “I'm trying to get that going and maybe down the road get something going with a clothing line. But these fabrics have a lot of uses and they can be used in collage and assemblage works.”
With her focuses shifting a little, Doscher's pieces for the Schweinfurth show will be a little older.
“They range from 1993 to 2006,” Doscher said. “With the focus on the unique fabrics, I haven't done too much 2-D work lately. I've done drawings and paintings; I've done a little bit of everything. And I love collage and assemblage. I'm just really enjoying trying something different right now.”
But Doscher still loves to work in the medium of collage and assemblage, and she is still very proud of her work, some of which has been shown at the Schweinfurth in the past.
“I didn't do any shows when I was on the board,” Doscher said. “I still showed my work other places - not at the Schweinfurth during that period, but I was involved with other shows there and I am very happy to be a part of one of their shows again.”
Doscher will have several pieces in the show, along with four or five smaller collage pieces, Doscher will also be displaying two larger pieces, at least one of which exemplifies the ideas of collage and assemblage and mixed media works of that nature.
The piece, which Doscher called “Happiness and Despair,” is based on old mailboxes. Letters and rust are mixed in the work with the mailboxes.
“I had a rust farm in my studio,” Doscher said. “It is based on the idea that there can be happy things and there can be sad things, despair in what comes in the mail.”
This is a unique look at a common everyday thing such as going to the mailbox - what poet Charles Bukowski called the uncommon thought on the common matter.
And while Doscher admits that her perspective is unique, she does not want to project her thoughts and feelings onto her audience, so much as she wants them to find their own meaning within her work.
“I just love to see people get out there,” Doscher said. “The Schweinfurth is a real jewel and we are fortunate to have it. I would like people to enjoy my work and to be happy to see it, but I want them to find out what it means for them. I don't want to tell anyone what it is supposed to mean. I think that is up to the person looking at it, I just hope people enjoy it.”
If you go
What: “Collage + Assemblage,” an exhibit of works made with three or more elements
When: Opens 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29; opening reception 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30
Where: Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 205 Genesee St., Auburn
Cost: $3 adults, free for children 12 and younger
Info: Call 255-1553 or visit www.schweinfurthartcenter.org
Skaneateles-based artist Jill Doscher is no stranger to this kind of creation, nor to the Schweinfurth.
“I served on the board for three years,” Doscher said. “And Stephanie (Schuster) at the museum knew me and knew my work and when they were putting this show together, she asked me if I would like to be a part of it. Stephanie came out to my studio and looked at some of my pieces and helped decide what would be in the show. I've done a lot of collage work, so I think this is great.”
These days, Doscher is an almost full-time artist.
She and her husband, Gary Trento, who were both educators at Syracuse University, still teach part-time at Onondaga Community College, but Doscher is fortunate to be able to pursue her creativity as much as she pleases in her home studio.
Much of her focus now is presently on the design and creation of what she terms unique fabrics, which may seem different from collage work, but is not really that far removed.
“I'm working on that a lot right now,” Doscher said. “I'm trying to get that going and maybe down the road get something going with a clothing line. But these fabrics have a lot of uses and they can be used in collage and assemblage works.”
With her focuses shifting a little, Doscher's pieces for the Schweinfurth show will be a little older.
“They range from 1993 to 2006,” Doscher said. “With the focus on the unique fabrics, I haven't done too much 2-D work lately. I've done drawings and paintings; I've done a little bit of everything. And I love collage and assemblage. I'm just really enjoying trying something different right now.”
But Doscher still loves to work in the medium of collage and assemblage, and she is still very proud of her work, some of which has been shown at the Schweinfurth in the past.
“I didn't do any shows when I was on the board,” Doscher said. “I still showed my work other places - not at the Schweinfurth during that period, but I was involved with other shows there and I am very happy to be a part of one of their shows again.”
Doscher will have several pieces in the show, along with four or five smaller collage pieces, Doscher will also be displaying two larger pieces, at least one of which exemplifies the ideas of collage and assemblage and mixed media works of that nature.
The piece, which Doscher called “Happiness and Despair,” is based on old mailboxes. Letters and rust are mixed in the work with the mailboxes.
“I had a rust farm in my studio,” Doscher said. “It is based on the idea that there can be happy things and there can be sad things, despair in what comes in the mail.”
This is a unique look at a common everyday thing such as going to the mailbox - what poet Charles Bukowski called the uncommon thought on the common matter.
And while Doscher admits that her perspective is unique, she does not want to project her thoughts and feelings onto her audience, so much as she wants them to find their own meaning within her work.
“I just love to see people get out there,” Doscher said. “The Schweinfurth is a real jewel and we are fortunate to have it. I would like people to enjoy my work and to be happy to see it, but I want them to find out what it means for them. I don't want to tell anyone what it is supposed to mean. I think that is up to the person looking at it, I just hope people enjoy it.”
If you go
What: “Collage + Assemblage,” an exhibit of works made with three or more elements
When: Opens 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29; opening reception 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30
Where: Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 205 Genesee St., Auburn
Cost: $3 adults, free for children 12 and younger
Info: Call 255-1553 or visit www.schweinfurthartcenter.org
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