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Untitled Image by Neil Chowdhury
Cazenovia College’s 2010 Summer Art Series begins with “Dubai, the Golden Days,” featuring photographs by Neil Chowdhury, assistant professor of photography and director of the College’s photography program.  An opening reception is scheduled for Friday, June 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition runs June 25, 26, 27, and July 2, and 3 (gallery is closed on July 4, Independence Day). Summer gallery hours are Fridays from 6 to 8 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m.

Chowdhury is an artist working in photography and digital media. His work explores the relationships between individuals, their societies, and environments in different cultures. Before coming to Cazenovia College, Chowdhury taught at Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan; and the University of Washington, Seattle. He received his master of fine arts degree in photography at the University of Washington. His photography and digital video works have been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad.

The exhibition includes photographs taken in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates from 2003 to 2006, Chowdhury says, “during a boom era that seemed to many there as if it would never end… in a burst of economic activity that in a few years had turned a once sleepy Arabian gulf port into an amazingly cosmopolitan city, where conspicuous consumption shone like a beacon of temptation for the more battened down desert neighborhoods of the rest of the Persian Gulf. The work in this exhibition looks back on Dubai during those heady years before the crash, when anything seemed possible.”  More of Chowdhury’s work may be seen at www.neilchowdhury.com.

For information contact Sylvia Needel, 315-655-7261, or visit www.cazenovia.edu/art-gallery.
 
UPCOMING:

July 9, 10, 11, and July 16, 17, 18 – “On My Own Time” features Cazenovia College employees, done on their own time.  

July 23, 24, 25, and July 30, 31, and Aug. 1 - “Artists of Cazenovia: A 1950s Retrospective of Four Fabulous Women,” Dorothy Riester, Prudence Burg Hubbard, Pricilla Burg Jenney Hancock, and Lucy Eliot. On Aug. 1 an auction of selected Lucy Eliot paintings will benefit the Summer Art Series.

Cazenovia College, named one of “America’s Best Colleges” by US News & World Report, is a small, independent, co-educational, baccalaureate college.  Located near Syracuse, N.Y., Cazenovia College offers a comprehensive liberal arts education in an exceptional community environment, with academic and co-curricular programs devoted to developing leaders in their professional fields.  For more information, visit www.cazenovia.edu.  
 


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