My Florence: Art Shay

Hi there once again!

Finals are almost here and with every day I get closer to my big move to Chicago!  So nerve-racking, so terrifying, but, most importantly, so exciting! I was pondering how to stay interested in the arts in the new city.  I know it is a great city full of various types of art but I want to know how to emerged with new and exciting pieces. As I was going site to site, I found Art Shay. He has a show at Columbia College Chicago Library.  

      

"The nearly seventy photographs presented in My Florence are primarily candid moments beginning with the first photograph Art took of Florence the day they met in 1942 as 20 year-old camp counselors in the Catskills.  Photographs of raising their family during the mid-20^th century are combined with portraits of Florence with their culturally influential friends, such as Chicago writer Nelson Algren, rock musician Billy Corgan and playwright David Mamet. The final photographs in the exhibition were taken immediately after his beloved wife's funeral in August 2012 when both Art and Florence were 90 years old."

                                                                                                                              -Art Shay