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Photography exhibit showcases a lifetime of experience
by Aristita Albacan
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The University of Idaho Women's Center is hosting a rotating
exhibit featuring a different artist each month. This month,
as the last Women's Center project for 2001, a photography exhibition
is scheduled. The 78-year-old Moscow artist Dorothy Gullicksen
will exhibit her photography. A part of the program "Meet
the Artist," the exhibition is organized in collaboration
with the Women's Caucus for Arts: Moscow Chapter.
The new exhibit features the photography of Gullicksen, who is
the most senior member of the Moscow Women's Caucus of Art. Gullicksen,
also known as DAC, will exhibit color photographs, which she
explains as very eager, eclectic and welcoming to anything that
catches her eye or intrigues her.
At 78, Gullicksen sees herself as "very little different
from anyone else," even from those who do not practice art
or have any connection with the arts. She also considers herself
very fortunate to have a special bond to the arts, a bond that
lasted almost her entire life.
Her first influence and link with the arts came through her family.
Her mother, she said, "Had only one aspiration beyond the
traditional lot in life, and that was that her daughters study
piano."
Gullicksen considers herself only an average talent, but one
with deep musical sensitivity. She intuitively uses music "as
a springboard to make connections with another ambience where
there were people as interested in sensing and expressing as
they were in having fun and working," she said.
Her entire life, her reading, thinking, emotions, passions became
one with the arts. She "was hooked," she said.
Later on she married a man who was a deeply committed artist
and painter. Together they grew "more and more in touch
with the intellectual, emotional, and sensual power of the visual
and musical arts."
Gullicksen perceived her natural ability and love for photography
and drawing at an earlier phase in her life, but it wasn't until
after her husband passed away, in 1999, when she became active.
She said that until then, she "preferred to be somehow in
the shadow of her husband's artistic passion."
After her husband's death in August 1999, she chose as her companions
in life photography, drawing and playing the piano. Gullicksen
confesses she is in the process of learning and working with
her new or less than new interests. "This allows me to express
special moments in my consciousness and hold on to a continuous
sense of fulfillment," she adds.
She enjoys the versatility of photography: the ability to abstract
from reality or make a representative image from memory and the
ability to make a photographic composition with all the elements
of painting except the brush and paint. The camera's capability
to quickly capture an image that the artist's eye perceived makes
her happy.
The exhibition opens at the Women's Center Wed., Dec. 5, 2001
at 12:30 p.m., at the corner of Pine Street and University Avenue.
The Women's Caucus for Art was established in 1972 to support
women in the visual arts professions. Their attention is focused
on the enormous contribution of women and people of color through
the history of art.
university of idaho argonaut
editor in chief david browning
301 student union. moscow, id 83844
ph# 885.7845 argonaut
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