Posted Tuesday March 12 2013 at 9:35 pm
Eleanor Rubin, currently exhibiting at VSA's Open Door Gallery, has graciously donated signed copies of her book "Dreams of Repair".
Interesting in purchasing your very own copy for $15 plus shipping? Email Kati at VSA.
Posted Monday January 21 2013 at 9:22 pm
Currently at the Open Door Gallery is Eleanor Rubin's exhibit Progress of the Eclipse: Memory, Memory Loss and Imagination. The artwork grew out of the artist's pain of being a caregiver for her mother, who was transformed and diminished by Alzheimer’s disease. VSA MA is presenting two events related to Eleanor's work:
Film Screening - The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's - February 12, 2013 at 6pm
This Primetime Emmy award-winning documentary takes a dramatic, compassionate, all- encompassing look at the growing epidemic of Alzheimer's disease. The cornerstone of the project is a 90-minute documentary based on David Shenk's best-selling book. Like Shenk's book, the documentary weaves together the history and biology of the disease, the intense real-world experiences of Alzheimer's patients and caregivers, and the race to find a cure.
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The Open Door Gallery presents an exhibit and inquiry about Alzheimer's disease and its impact on elders and their families.
The body of work on view as part of Progress of The Eclipse: Memory, Memory Loss and Imagination was created over an extended period 1990 - present.
These woodcuts grew out of the pain of being a caregiver for a beloved person, my mother, who was transformed and diminished by Alzheimer’s disease and who died in 1992. Even at this distance from the years of her illness, the losses she suffered suffuse my thoughts. I am 20 years older now, at an age when friends are caregivers for spouses with Alzheimer’s disease. And long-range concerns for my own memory are a part of my life as a woman in my 70s.
Creating images during the period of my mother's illness fulfilled a need for self-transformation during times when the emotional burden was too great to be relieved by words. The work that grew out of this period of care giving developed a visual vocabulary for grief, disassociation and metamorphosis which became a visual language of resilience.
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