Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania

January 2000 Show
Gallery at The Gamble Mill

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The Bellefonte Historical & Cultural Association (BHCA)

Gallery at The Gamble Mill

 

presents

 

SLICES OF LIFE IN JAPAN AND TAIWAN

 

Funded in part by

The Borough of Bellefonte

&

The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

 

January 15 – March 4, 2000

Opening and Reception, January 18

 

 

HEIDE G. CASTLEMAN

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

 

            JAPAN

  1.  Shrine                                                                                     $125

  2.  Reversed Favor (boy offering water to dragon)                         $105

  3.  East Approaching West (girl and boy)                                       $105

  4.  Contentment                                                                               $105

  5.  Apprehensive Curiosity                                                               $85

  6.  Grandmother's Pride                                                                  $105

  7.  Horizontals and Verticals (atrium of Geisha house)                   $125

  8.  Pouring Tea over Open Hearth                                                  $125

  9.  Precious Earth                                                                              $95

10.  Irises along Brook                                                                      $115

 

TAIWAN

11.  Repair of Fishing Nets                                                               $125

12.  Crowded Harbor                                                                        $125

13.  Snacks from the Sea                                                                   $125

14.  Tea Eggs and Chicken                                                               $125

15.  Yehliu Promontories                                                                  $125

16.  Roof with Chinese Fable Figures                                               $125

17.  Temple Roof                                                                              $125

18.  Skyward Patterns (echoing shapes of

              cloud and architectural detail)                                             $125

19.  Religious Ceremony                                                                  $115

 

COLLAGE (mixed media) and PHOTOMONTAGE

 

1.  Roots of Life                                                                                $250

2.  Transcendental Energy                                                                $250

3.  Old Friends                                                                                  $250

4.  Lanterns in Natural Settings                                                         $185

5.  Nature's Wrappings                                                                      $175

6.  Buddha Expanding with Cherry Blossoms                                  $185

7.  Shadow Box                                                                                $250

8.  Knotted Encounter                                                                       $185

9.  Dancing Trees                                                                              $135

 

Heide Castleman was born and raised in the Black Forest, the southwestern part of Germany, and has been living in State College for 18 years.  She studied art in Germany, in Colorado, and at Penn State, as well as at the Corcoran School of Art.  She is a member of the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania.  Her work has been exhibited in Randersacker and Munich (Germany), at Schlow Memorial Library in State College, and also at Kern Galleries and Ritenour Exhibition Area, both at Penn State.

 

     Heide has traveled throughout Europe, most states of the U.S., and other continents including Australia and the Middle and Far East.  In this exhibition she shares her experiences gained while spending several months in Japan on four different occasions and through traveling in Taiwan.  Through the photographic image she captures the feelings of various slices of life in those countries.  Via other media displayed in the exhibition, visual information from these trips has been synthesized and translated into images that surface in her multicultural collages.  Heide creates her collages using variedly textured washi (handmade oriental paper), gold color for an Asian feeling, and abstracted calligraphy-like characters.  Some of these collages create the illusion of objects that have gracefully aged; others express the reverence of the Japanese for nature, their respect for tradition, their sense for aesthetics as well as their modernism and technology.  They represent Heide's personal reaction and interpretation of impressions from her sojourns in the Far East.  She also greatly enjoys exploring the interaction of various images that show different patterns of shapes and textures, through the creation of photomontages and collages.  Above all, serenity and simplicity are a very important part of her art, and she feels that the soothing effect acts as a counter balance to our hectic modern-day lifestyle.