Photography by Yee-Fun Yin and Drawings by Loueta Chickadaunce

Photography by Yee-Fun Yin and Drawings by Loueta Chickadaunce

In All Her Revelations: Ireland

Photography by Yee-Fun Yin

April 27, 2017—May 26, 2017

Opening reception Thursday, April 27, 2017 5-7 pm

Clans or tribes, races or nations, living at home or in exile, invading or being invaded, protecting or adopting a homeland, everyone’s relationship with the land is linked through the millennia by birth and by blood. Over the ages, political upheavals and human migrations remind us how important it is to understand how our identity is connected to the land, whether it is through history, politics, economy, religion, literature or art.

This set of photographs explores the Irish identity. As the artist and photographer, Linda Conner, explains: “In the presence of silence, myths and mysteries are amplified to near sacred status.”*

In contemplating these photographs, in which the landscape and the people of Ireland reveal themselves through the camera, we make personal discoveries about a people and a place intimately bound by ancestry, geography and time.

—Yee-Fun Yin
Woodbury, CT
April 2017

* Odyssey: Photographs by Linda Connor, Chronicle Books, 1Edition (October 29, 2008); Conversations with Robert Adams and Emmet Gowin, January 15, 2008.

After Padova

Drawings by Loueta Chickadaunce

April 27, 2017—May 26, 2017

Opening reception Thursday, April 27, 2017 5-7 pm

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open. Hazrat Inayat Khan

I received a professional development grant from Taft last summer, and I traveled to Florence and Padua in Italy. I went to see a few of my boyfriends. In Florence, there were Michelangelo and Brunelleschi, Marino Marini, Donatello, and Botticelli: in Padua, Giotto and his Scrovegni Chapel. The skies were insistently blue every day. In Venice (a twenty-minute train ride from Padua) Tintoretto and Titian and the Tiepolo brothers shook my heart open, and I felt I could make my own work again, without always thinking about what could develop into a class plan.

We always start with drawing, so I’m showing you drawings. I began by imagining people falling down, away, from, toward. I remembered my Gracie Lyman, picking apples in her summers, so I drew apples and trees and flowers.

It’s a joy to have two lives: one as a teacher and another as an artist. Each involves intense observation and insightful, intuitive reaction.