Community Center Art Gallery Opening Reception

Teddy Milder: In Constraint/Unconstrained

• Date: 07/10/2016 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM 07/10/2016 4:00 PM 07/10/2016 6:00 PM  
• Location: Albany Community Center Foyer
  1249 Marin Avenue
  Albany, California 94706

In Constraint/Unconstrained began while searching for the Museum of Flamenco and "duende" in the old streets of Seville, Spain. A photograph I took of the cobbled streets and crumbling walls told a story beyond the circles and squares of the imagery. Duende describes the mysterious, soulful passion and deep emotion expressed by Flamenco dancers, singers and instrumentalists. As I attempted to capture duende in my images, I began with two imposed constraints: work in black and white and use only circles and squares. I quickly found my ever-present texture and pattern sensibility poured into the work. The series became "unconstrained" as I composited subsequent [non] circles and [non] squares with images from my mind, scanned cloth, my home, New York, Seville,