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The Gallery at 38 Cameron is very pleased to announce the current
exhibit of works by

Wendy Klemperer, Sculptor and Joseph Scheer, Photographer

*Show dates: March 11-April 24 2008
Opening Reception, Friday March 21, 7-9 PM
Both artists will be giving gallery talks from 8-9pm *

Art exhibit of Joseph Scheer and Wendy Klemperer

We are delighted to feature these two unique artists in our current show.

*Wendy Klemperer* is a sculptor working in metal, resin and wax. Her subjects are a wide range of wild and domesticated creatures. Her work is powerful and evocative, capturing the inner nature and grace of her subjects.

*Joseph Scheer* is a digital photographer specializing in macro-photography of moths. His striking work opens our eyes to the finer details of these beautiful nocturnal creatures that are often seen and appreciated far less than their daytime cousins.

Wendy Klemperer

*Wendy Klemperer* was born in Boston, MA. Raised in Cambridge and Watertown, she was most able to explore her passion for animals and nature during summers spent at her grandmother's country house in New Hampshire. The daughter of two chemists, she grew up with dual interests of art and the biological sciences, and received a bachelor degree in biochemistry from Harvard University before deciding to pursue art full time. She moved to NYC in 1980, and studied at Pratt Institute. The vitality of Klemperer's work stems from her physical involvement in the making of the pieces, a kind of action sculpture process, combined with a deeply ingrained, intuitively felt understanding of the form and movement of animals.

In the early 1990's she started welding, and soon was concentrating on larger, outdoor sculpture. Scrap yards and construction sites provide raw material for her linear, gestural sculpture. She finds most of the forms already bent into the piles of rebar; her process is largely to select and cut, tack-welding the pre-existing curves into sculptural form. Wendy Klemperer lives in Brooklyn, NY and Nelson, NH. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States, and has had commissions with the Andalusia Foundation, in Bensalom PA and the Henry Lay Sculpture Park, in Louisiana, MO. Klemperer has also exhibited with the DeCordova Museum and many other galleries in addition to the Gallery at 38 Cameron in Cambridge, MA.

For more info visit :* www.wendyklemperer.com

Joseph Scheer

"Butterflies may get more press, but to Joseph Scheer, nothing is more beautiful than the misunderstood moth. By his own admission, he is obsessed with moths. Scheer comes from a printmaking background, but like many contemporary artists, he has worked across many mediums: drawing, painting, and photographic processes, among others. He is not a scientist and had no formal training in biology or environmental science prior to his work with moths. But to hear him talk excitedly about the myriad species he has documented since 1998, you'd think that he has been studying the moth for decades."

"Scheer completed his graduate work in art at the University of New Mexico and joined the faculty of Alfred University in 1989. The next ten years was a time of rapid change for the art world as the burgeoning technology of the era (Photoshop, publishing tools, etc.) became readily available. In response, Scheer and two of his colleagues founded the Institute for Electronic Arts in 1997 to expose students and faculty to opportunities in art and technology and to solicit grants from industry to fund the purchase of hardware and equipment. Scheer could never have imagined that the technology he was promoting would lead him to an in-depth study of this primal creature."
-From /Photoinsider/ magazine

As featured in National Geographic

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For more information please contact us at 617-492-4091 or gallery@38cameron.com

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