March 2, 1995: Vol26n19: Choices

UB alumna Ellen Carey, a photographer whose work has been presented by
the International Center of Photography, the National Academy of
Sciences and the Wadsworth Atheneum, will present a lecture at 4:30
p.m. Wednesday, March 8 in the Black Box Theater, B-85 Center for the
Arts.
	Carey, who teaches at the Hartford Art School, received her
M.F.A. in photography from UB in 1978. Her work is represented in
numerous collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her
photographs will be exhibited locally March 11-April 12 in the Nina
Freudenheim Gallery, 300 Delaware Ave.
	Critics have said that her recent abstract photographs
"confound the expectation that a photograph should be a realistic
document of some aspect of visual reality. The artist created the
vibrantly colored patterns, shapes and forms in these works using the
basic tools and apparatus of the photographic medium, while refusing
to conform to the representational strategies normally associated with
those tools." Carey's lecture is free and open to the public. For more
information, call the Art Department at 645-6878.