A photograph by Visiting Photography Instructor Sylvia de Swaan is featured on the title page of the eighth edition of Photography, (Barbara London John Upton, James Stone, Ken Kobré, Betsy Brill; published by Prentice Hall), a college photography textbook. Another image created by de Swaan is included in the recently published Occasional Sights - London Guidebook of Missed Opportunities and Things That Aren't Really There (Anna Best, Editor; Photography Gallery, London; December 2003).
De Swaan's work is currently on exhibit in a one-person show at Onondaga Community College at the Felton Multicultural Center through April 30. The exhibition features photographs that retrace her family's exodus from Eastern Europe. For additional gallery information, call 498-ARTS.
De Swaan's work is also included in a four person show titled "Sites of Memory and Honor" at the Hera Gallery, a women's cooperative gallery in Wakefield, Rhode Island. The exhibition, which closes on April 17, takes a long look at a fascinating subject often avoided in contemporary society: death. The exhibition is specifically concerned with the monuments and memorials erected to venerate the dead, and explores the individual and collective ways to enshrine memories for perpetuity. (http://www.heragallery.org/)
Three of her photographs are incorporated into an exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum titled "Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan" as well as in the accompanying catalog. The show is open until September 26 in New York City and will then travel to the New Orleans Museum of Art. Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980), a prodigiously talented African-Amercian painter and street missionary, is considered one of the most important self-taught artists of our time. The exhibit includes over 100 pieces of art created by Morgan as well as documentary photographs chronicling her life of which De Swaan's work is a part.
