Brush/Lens Project
A Long Island Collaboration
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-59534-909-5 (ISBN)
Description
Holly Gordon and Ward Hooper have worked independently as artists for decades. In 2014 they embarked on an artistic collaboration exploring Long Island's communities, coastlines, and landmarks. Hooper's paintings and Gordon's photographs reimagine an iconic but rapidly changing place in America, one marked by beauty/grit, quiet/bustle, rural/industrial, heritage/change, and wealthy/working class tensions. They also explore preconceptions about relationships, aging, and infirmity. Taken together, Brush/Lens Project celebrates the island's beauty and reveals how artistic vision is infinite. In the spirit of artistic collaborations such as Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's, the book adds an important new chapter to the story of Long Island.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Antonio
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
Numerous color paintings and photographs throughout
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 305 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-59534-909-5 (9781595349095)
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Ward Hooper has worked at a design firm in Manhattan for more than thirty years as a package designer, design director, and partner. He is also on the teaching staff at the Art League of Long Island. In the 1960s he began studying painting at the National Art League, on the north shore of Long Island, and today his paintings are in private collections throughout the country. His work has been exhibited widely in juried shows and covered by the New York Times and Watercolor Artist. He lives on Long Island.