Still Life Compositions: Photography
by
Maxeen S. Flower

SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio--- August 22, 2008 - Notre Dame College’s Clara Fritzsche Library will host “Still Life Compositions,” photography by Maxeen Stone Flower. Flower’s richly detailed, brilliantly colored and dramatically lit photographic compositions give the illusion of being Old Masters oil paintings. Using her vast collection of artifacts and antiques, Flower artfully arranges the still life compositions then photographs them using a digital camera. Inspired by the still life paintings of the 16th and 17th century Dutch Masters, each photographic composition is comprised of one or more subjects adhering to the following precepts: To See, To Touch, To Smell, To Taste and To Hear.

Flower has a BA from Case Western Reserve University and a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art with a major in Photography and Painting. She also studied Fine Art Digital Photography at Cuyahoga Community College. She worked at American Greetings as an artist-photographer and was the owner -director of Maxeen’s Art Showroom in the Ohio Design Center. She is an Honorary Trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Art and is on the Board of Directors at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Flower has exhibited extensively on the local and national level and has won numerous awards for her work. Juried shows include the Cain Park Art Festival, the Jewish Community Center, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Washington Gallery of Photography in Bethesda, Maryland and the Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, West Virginia. In 2001 she had a one woman exhibition at the Dayton Institute of Art. Flower is also a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.

For more information on the artist and examples of her work, go to her website:
http://rockrosestudio.com.

The exhibit is free and open to the public and will run from September 11 through October 30, 2008.  An opening reception will be held on Thursday, September 11th from 5 to 7 p.m.  All proceeds from sales made during the show will go to the Sonia Klodor Memorial Fund for the benefit of the library.  The exhibit may be viewed during library hours:  Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday 1-10 p.m.  For more information, contact Karen Zoller at 216-373-5267 or check the library gallery website at www.NotreDameCollege.edu/library/gallery.aspx.