"Play: Artists Look At Childhood" Exhibition at Gallery One

Here is some information about the exhibition, but you can find out more by visiting Gallery One's website here.
Exhibition Dates: March 7 through April 24, 2008
Opening Reception: 5:00 - 7:00pm Friday, March 7th

Exhibiting artists include:
Michelle Elzinga
Jazno Francoeur
Catherine Haley Epstein
Sara Lanzillotoa
Beth Lo
Gary Oliveira
Alan Pace
John Sloan
Grace Weston
Ellen Wixted

PLAY: Artists Look at Childhood is the second exhibition in Gallery One Visual Art Center’s celebration of their 40th anniversary year. In this show, 10 artists examine or reflect upon their personal experiences of childhood: how memory lingers, how we enhance or diminish specific moments, and how these moments affect our feelings and end up defining us for the rest of our lives. The focus here is more nuance than trauma with consideration of the intense yearnings and longings fired by active imaginations or inexperienced references that a child feels. Many people carry with them the weight of disappointment and/or the confusion of adolescence that they felt at some point in their developing years. This exhibition explores those feelings with humor, nostalgia and bewilderment.