THE DRISKEL GALLERY AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE CENTER
presents
FAMOUS FACES:
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
MARIE COSINDAS
August 23 - September 4, 2002
Reception: Friday, August 23, 7 - 10 p.m.
The Driskel Gallery at The Schoolhouse Center for Art & Design inProvincetown, MA is proud to present an exhibition of celebrity portraits by world-renowned
photographer Marie Cosindas, August 23 - September 4, 2002.
Marie Cosindas was born and educated in Boston where she lives and works today. Her early training was in commercial art and painting at the Modern School of Fashion Design and the Boston Museum School. In the early 1960s, while studying black and white photography with Ansel Adams in California he suggested that she “thought in color” and encouraged her to explore that medium at a time when most serious photographers scorned the color format. During the period of experimenting with color, Polaroid asked her to test a new product, Polacolor film. The immediacy of response that Polaroid film provided was
essential in developing her technique.
Ms. Cosindas went on to have the first one-person exhibition of color photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1966, which established her reputation internationally. The MOMA exhibition was quickly followed by one-person shows at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Art Institute of
Chicago and many other institutions. Her work is now widely known and is
included in many major permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Museum for Photography at George Eastman House.
many major International Museum for Photography at George Eastman House.
In addition to her fine art exhibitions , for the past four decades Ms. Cosindas has had a highly successful career as a commercial photographer, taking on assignments for all the major publications of her day, including Life, Look and Esquire. She has also worked as a still photographer on the sets of major
Hollywood movies and created innovative, evocative images for the advertising campaigns of Helena Rubenstein and Neiman Marcus. Her special talent in portraiture lies in her masterful, delicate use of color and light, and her ability to capture the intimate and vulnerable aspects of her oftentimes powerful and well-known sitters. Among the portraits presented in this exhibitions will be those of Coco Chanel, Andy Warhol, Yves St. Laurent, Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, Louise Nevelson and Isamu Noguchi.
This is Ms. Cosinda’s second solo exhibition at the Schoolhouse Center.
For more information or an interview with the artist please call David Carrino at (508) 487.4800.
