Wheaton gallery shows photos with sense of place
Friday, August 1999
Works by Dorothy Kerper Monnelly, a North Shore based photographer well-known for her rich and evocative black-and-white images of the living landscape, will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass.
The show, entitled "A Sense of Place: Black and White Landscapes by Dorothy Kerper Monnelly," will be on display from Thursday, Sept. 9 through Saturday, Oct. 9. The gallery is open to the public Monday through Saturday, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Monnelly, who lives along the North Shore amidst the landscapes depicted in many of her images, will talk about her work at an opening lecture and reception on Thursday, Sept. 9 in the gallery. The event is free and open to the public.
A graduate of Wheaton College,. Monnelly has pursued photography for more than two decades, and is highly regarded for her landscape images. Boston Globe art critic Cate McQuaid said of Monnelly, "...here’s a keeper.... She turns her eye to patterns in nature and in bringing those out, creates images that verge on abstraction....Lovely, soothing stuff."
Some of her works are part of the permanent collection of The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. and she has won numerous awards in juried shows. Her works are in several private and corporate collections and have been widely published.
In 1997, Monnelly’s photographs were exhibited in a solo show at the Arden Gallery in Boston, Mass., in conjunction with the National Conference on Women in Photography. During the 1990s, Monnelly was an artist-in-residence at Acadia National Park and has continued to focus on this extraordinary landscape. Also, she has exhibited her photographs in a one-woman show at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library, the Ralls Collection in Washington, D.C., and in numerous shows in the Boston area, Martha’s Vineyard and Maine.
A recipient of the Audobon A. Award, recognizing exceptional action on behalf of the living environment, Monnelly is an avid conservationist and outspoken advocate for preserving open space. She was commissioned recently by the Nature Conservancy to portray rare and fragile areas that have been designated as Last Great Places.