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Lisa Di Donato: The Mutable

Exhibition: April 5 – May 1, 2004.
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 8, 6-8 p.m.

NEW YORK – Globe Institute Gallery is pleased to present “The Mutable,” an installation of recent photographs by Lisa Di Donato framed by vinyl records. “The Mutable” lays bare the photograph and the phonograph as historical and inseparable siblings. However, the exhibit also presents the language of photography as different from that of the silent record.

For “The Mutable,” Di Donato photographed urban and natural spaces in New York and New Jersey . These panoramic views and urban abstractions represent environments as compositions containing optical sounds and noises. A dilapidated railyard, Penn Station at rush hours, the industrially hedged Meadowlands, the street level of a Harlem neighborhood, a New York Housing Authority playground, and the interior of an Upper East Side highrise are metonymic, visual noises, simultaneously conjuring experiential acoustics.

This exhibition of Di Donato was collaborated with Raphy Sarkissian and Bill Walsh, and situates digital photographs between trajectories of LPs. Repetition, reproduction, image and noise are in tension conceptually and visually.

Lisa Di Donato received a B.F.A. in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. She participated in the inaugural group exhibition of Globe Institute Gallery in August 2002, displaying architectonic images and interactive sculpture. Bill Walsh received a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan .  He is a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center . Raphy Sarkissian received his master's degree from New York University . He is affiliated with the School of Visual Arts and Globe Institute of Technology.

For further information, please contact Globe Institute Gallery at T 212.349.4330 ext. 110 or Lisa di Donato at la_fornalisa@yahoo.it.