Leslie Starobin

Shop Windows from History

Digital photomontages and photographs

Current Work of Leslie Starobin

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January 30 – February 28, 2003

Lecture "From Moscow to Jerusalem:
An Artist's Search for Roots"

Wednesday, February 5, 7:00 pm
Founder's Room

Artist's Reception
immediately following lecture, in the Hess Gallery

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400 Heath Street • Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Gallery hours
Mon.-Thur. 8:30a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri. 8:30 a.m.-5p.m.
Sat. 12-4 p.m.; Sun. 2 p.m.-10 p.m.
Holiday hours vary

From January 30 to February 28, the complex and evocative photomontages of digital artist Leslie Starobin will be on view in the Hess Gallery at Pine Manor College. Layering images of "identity cards, exit visas, maps, graffiti-covered walls, fortresses, memorial sites, burial grounds, bomb shelters and sculpture parks full of 'fallen Communist idols,'" Starobin recollects her ancestral and family ties, reconfiguring them into works that explore her origins and create a new kind of "family tree." These works invite the viewer to engage with their constantly shifting dynamic of light and dark, transparency and opacity, multiple forms and delicate textures. Her personal ties to Moscow and Jerusalem—two geographical areas that are central to world history and current political turbulence—give the work added urgency and restiveness.

After years of creating fine arts photography, Starobin began working with digital processes in the mid-1990s. While continuing to produce traditional analog photography, in digital work she finds it possible to expand on the possibilities inherent in photography and to blend the "disparate worlds of culture and politics into compositions of visual fusion and tension."

Starobin received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and Photography from Hampshire College and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is Associate Professor of Communications Art at Framingham State College, a position she has held since 1984. She has received many awards including an Artist's Fellowship from the New England Foundation for the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts in 1995, and her work is in many private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. Starobin will be giving a free public lecture titled From Moscow to Jerusalem: An Artist's Search for Roots, the evening of Wednesday, February 5, at 7:00 pm, in the Founder's Room of Pine Manor College, just prior to the reception for the exhibit.

Founded in 1911, Pine Manor College is a four-year liberal arts college, preparing women for lives of inclusive leadership and social responsibility in their workplaces, families and communities. The Hess Gallery is housed in the Annenberg Library at Pine Manor College. Its focus is contemporary New England artists. Events are free and open to the public.