Moving Pictures; Distinct Photomontages Highlight Peter Mahan and Yolanda Tooley's Collected Works in Utica

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Starting just inside the gallery, which doubles as a reception area during theater performances, [Peter Mahan]'s 19 images cover the front half of the room. An Oswego resident, Mahan is also an art educator, with degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology and Nazareth College. Mahan teaches high school art for Hannibal Central Schools, and his work has appeared in many venues statewide, including the Everson Museum, RIT and Auburn's Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn.

In four works he labels "Architextures," Mahan focuses on form and texture. He illuminates elaborate architectural details on unidentified buildings, sometimes superimposing details over others, producing a three-dimensional effect. In the collage "Feeding Time," Mahan offers eight views of a barefoot, blond girl. Mostly sitting on a dock, legs dangling, the child scatters food to swooping white birds. Blurring photo and frame, Mahan places cutout images of these graceful birds gliding outside the shots.

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Moving Pictures; Distinct Photomontages Highlight Peter Mahan and Yolanda Tooley's Collected Works in Utica

Photographers Yolanda Tooley and Peter Mahan aren't against progress. They use modern materials, experimenting with form and technique. But they work in darkrooms, not on computers. They develop film; they don't...

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