BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//com.denhaven2/NONSGML ri_cal gem//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Larchmont Public Library presents &ldquo\;Mona Dukess - T he Mediated Eye&rdquo\;\, in the Library&rsquo\;s Oresman Gallery from M arch 2\, through March 30\, 2012. The exhibit is free and open to everyo ne during normal library hours. There will be a reception for Ms. Dukess on Thursday\, March 8\, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm in the Oresman Gallery at the Library. The reception is also free and everyone is welcome.\nA vis ual artist\, Mona Dukess\, has been exhibiting her art in museums\, acad emic venues and galleries for over 30 years. Always fascinated by new pr ocesses\, she works in a variety of media. She studied with Budd Hopkins \, the late New York Abstract Expressionist painter\, and works in colla boration with Paul Wong\, master paper artist and Artistic Director of D ieu Donne Paper Mill in NYC. She is currently creating archival pigment prints\, further honing her technical skills working in collaboration wi th digital artist\, Henry Mandell.\nThe works exhibited in &ldquo\;Mona Dukess &ndash\; The Mediated Eye&rdquo\; at the Larchmont Library are ba sed on photographs she takes at &ldquo\;The Brook&rdquo\; (known to most as the Sheldrake River)\, in Larchmont. Interested in water in its many aspects\, Dukess uses a small digital camera to capture images reflecte d on the surface of the brook&rsquo\;s waters. Through the multiple lens es of eye\, camera\, and water itself\, she has documented changes in we ather\, the seasons\, air temperatures\, and the effects of motion and s tillness of the river&rsquo\;s currents. From her hundreds of images she selects those that best transform reflected elements of nature into abs tract compositions. Taking advantage of the capabilities of the computer as an artists&rsquo\; tool\, she adjusts her images through changes in scale\, proportion and nuance before accepting them as fully realized &l dquo\;objects d&rsquo\;art&rdquo\;.  \;As an artist who worked for m any years through the medium of handmade paper\, Dukess put great import ance in the compatibility of the surface on which she prints with the ul timate expression of her completed image.\nThe first exhibition of Mona Dukess&rsquo\; art in this medium was a one-person show in August 2011\, entitled &ldquo\;Mapped Waters&rdquo\;\, at the Museum in Provincetown Massachusetts. Art critic\, Cate McQuaid of the Boston Globe\, had this to say in her review of Dukess&rsquo\; exhibit: &ldquo\;&hellip\;Mona Du kess sticks with a subject and cycles through a variety of techniques to properly capture it. Mapped Waters\, her absorbing show&hellip\;has her moving into digital photography. She blows up her photos of water\, fin ding in the shadows a wealth of gestures. The shadows (often) stretch\, bat and undulate like quivery ghosts. Stilled in photographs\, they beco me gestural abstractions\, and Dukess arrays all the wild lines and blot s she captures into larger compositions.&rdquo\; (Boston Globe\, Aug. 17 \, 2011).\nDukess&rsquo\; has exhibited in several one-person shows that include the Kobalt Gallery (2007 &\; 2008) and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (2011). In addition to exhibiting her own art\, D ukess has curated exhibitions in New York and Massachusetts. Her work is included in museums and many private and corporate collections includin g Bryn Mawr College\, The J.V. Zimmerlii Art Museum at Rutgers Universit y and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Mona Dukess lives and maintains studio in Larchmont and Cape Cod.\nFor additional information and images please visit \; - www.monadukess.com\nFor more informati on about the exhibit\, call the library at (914) 834-2281 or visit the l ibrary online at www.larchmontlibrary.org. Please call or visit the libr ary online for exhibit hours. URL:http://larchmont.patch.com/events/mona-dukess-the-mediated-eye-at-the -larchmont-public-library SUMMARY:“Mona Dukess - The Mediated Eye” at the Larchmont Public Libr ary LOCATION:Larchmont Public Library: 121 Larchmont Ave\, Larchmont\, NY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR