A NOTICE FROM ART CRITIC, COLIN DABKOWSKI, IN THE BUFFALO NEWS:
VORTEX VIEWS
There’s something both unsettling and alluring about the work of Elizabeth Leader, who combined small dolls with her own photography to create potent little tableaus now on view in the Western New York Book Arts Center, 468 Washington St., through Sept. 17. For a glimpse into another facet of Leader’s work, art fans can check out “Troubled Waters,” a series of paintings that deal with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a sprawling mass of trash in the North Pacific Ocean. That show—which opens Thursday and runs through Oct. 15 in the Niagara County Community College Art Gallery, 3111 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn — is Leader’s modest attempt to bring attention to the huge ecological problem, also known as the Trash Vortex. “When I first heard of the ‘Trash Vortex’ it so disturbed me that I tried to immediately put it out of my mind. Too late,” Leader wrote in a statement. “My imagination slowly swirled and circled around itself into thoughts and dreams, gathering emotion and then congealing into images. They have come out on paper as figures— some human, some not — in postmodern seascapes, entangled in narratives with endings not yet known.” For more information on the show, call 517-1186 or visit www.elizabethleader.com.—Colin Dabkowski; Published: Sep 9, 2011 12:00 AM
