March 18 – June 27, 2009
With a retrospective exhibition featuring over 50 photographs, the Silver Eye Center for Photography pays tribute to one of Pittsburgh’s most prolific artists, Aaronel deRoy Gruber. Gruber recently turned 90, but she is still heavily active in the art community and creating fine art photography. Her tireless effort and inspiring images that range from picturesque panoramas of landscapes to industrial views of steel mills can be found in museum and corporate art collections throughout the country.
The opening reception for Gruber’s show will be Saturday, March 20th from 3-5PM.
Gruber is well known for utilizing unique techniques such as infrared photography, and many of her prints are chemically toned and hand-painted. The infrared film and digital filters (sensitive to infrared radiation) produce an ethereal quality often identifiable by foliage that appears white and rose-hued skies.
The Analytical Eye: Photographs by Aaronel deRoy Gruber is an exhibition of photographs selected from the artist’s collection, Photo Forum Gallery and The Carnegie Museum of Art. The exhibition Co-Curators are Linda Benedict-Jones, Curator of Photography at The Carnegie Museum of Art, and Graham Shearing, Arts Writer and Critic. Graham Shearing explains, “We have re-shuffled the pack and dealt the cards differently for this retrospective. And now we can view this particular artistic life as a panorama itself, strikingly consistent and incisive…an essentially analytical eye.”
