The Process Within : Works of John Buron and Donna Hamil Talman

September 7 through September 26, 2007 at the ARTSWorcester Aurora Gallery, 660 Main Street, Worcester, MA

August 11, 2007

Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 2007 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm at ARTSWorcester’s Aurora Gallery 660 Main Street, Worcester, MA. This event is free and open to the public and will feature refreshments and music.

The Process Within is an exhibition of ARTSWorcester members John Buron and Donna Hamil Talman, recipients of the 2007 Worcester Cultural Commission’s Local Cultural Council Grant.

As a mixed media artist, John Buron finds his work inspired by text, diagrams and photographs. Buron uses paint to reconstruct found images in order to create a completely new visual effect, while still retaining the quality of a photographic print. Buron states, “There seems to be a validity or truth to a photographic image that a hand-rendered image lacks. I am trying to achieve both the authority of a photograph and the personal tactile beauty of the line created by a human hand.”

Buron graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio art. Solo and juried exhibitions include the Worcester Artist Group Gallery and the Kaleidoscope Gallery at the Worcester Public Library, Grove Street Gallery, Atwood Gallery, Fitchburg Art Museum, College of the Holy Cross, and the Danforth Museum of Art. Buron has also participated in the Worcester Windows Project and stART on the Street.

Donna Hamil Talman’s personal experience with lupus, an auto-immune illness, was the original stimulus for her hand-manipulated, life-size gelatin silver prints. Talman states, “The images invite viewers to reflect on profound issues, such as that our genes and cells encode and bring us into being. Together they form us, create torment and ecstasy, elevate, and ultimately destroy us, only to live on in our progeny.”

Talman graduated from the University of Colorado and received a Masters degree from Clark University. Her strong exhibition history includes shows at the University of Rhode Island, Kayafas Gallery, Copley House, Schneider Gallery, Danforth Museum of Art and the Cambridge Art Association. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her work from Copley Society, CoSo Gallery, Worcester Artist Group, Concord Art Association, Cambridge Art Association, Stebbins Gallery and Southborough Center for the Arts.

Gallery hours: Tuesdays and Saturdays 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Extended hours are available by appointment. Gallery is closed Sunday and Monday. Free and open to the public.

Address: 660 Main Street, Worcester, MA

Information: (508) 755-5142 or email: info@artsworcester.org

Currently at the ARTSWorcester Quinsigamond Community College Gallery: through September 21 is Yesterday’s Paper, an exhibition of photographs by Jim Collins.