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Two of a Kind: Abelardo Morell and Anthony Fisher
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- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Two of a Kind: Abelardo Morell and Anthony Fisher
Exhibition Dates: February 2 - March 10, 2022
OPENING RECEPTION: AHA! Night, Thursday February 10, 6-8 pm | Artist Talk: 6:30 pm
CLOSING RECEPTION: AHA! Night, Thursday, March 10, 6-8 pm
Reserve your free ticket for the opening and closing: umassdartmouthgalleries.eventbrite.com
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For additional information, please go to: umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries
Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and Exhibition Curator
The UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery at Star Store Campus, Downtown New Bedford has the pleasure to invite you to the exhibition titled, Two of a Kind, featuring large scale photographs of paint by Abelardo Morell in conversation with paintings by Anthony Fisher.
This exhibition presents two creative approaches that focus on the abstract image- Abelardo Morell's incredibly lush and sensual photographs of fresh paint frozen in time with the help of light, fast exposure and flash, and Anthony Fisher's ingeniously captured lines and shapes featured on layered, monochromatic abstract paintings.
Both Morell and Fisher share a restless urgency to invent novel ways to play with traditional media, subjects, and methods. In their respective studios in the same creative community just outside of Boston, each pours their unique experimentation into their own patient and carefully crafted process. Results sometimes arrive as wonderful surprises transformed into bold work that the visitor can almost enter - inspiring, open minded, and deeply creative. Abelardo Morell admires Anthony's work because he, "like me, thinks a lot about how a picture is made. Subject matter for him is, of course, important, but it is within his working process that the subject emerges. Anthony has used all sorts of devices to make marks on the canvas - perhaps to get his ego out of the way a bit."
Anthony Fisher's studio process involves quirky and lumbering invented tools, physical struggle, gravity, chemistry, and physics to allow hundreds of marks to be thrown onto a canvas all at once. "My process is specifically designed for EXCESS- with so many visual ideas emerging at once, the overwhelmingly vast majority are discarded. I want the unexpected. My goal is to spark ideas that otherwise wouldn't appear with a more deliberative, considered approach," says Fisher.
Abelardo Morell explains his admiration for the subject matter of his photographs, "When I visit museums, my eyes often take me first to the painting galleries. I marvel at the surfaces of paintings, which contain their own visual dramas, often independent of any narrative or formal aspect of the work. A difference between us as a photographer and painter is that photographers normally start with the world, while painters begin with a blank canvas and end up at times with astonishing creations." Morell's photographs show "that substance on its way to drying- a stage that finished paintings can never retain. "I also use other lighting sources pointed at a low angle to increase the raking light effects on the thick paint surface. I like the translucent and geometric visual marriages achieved through this method. Because what I am making are not "paintings" in their own right, I am able to quote and crop discrete small paint details to make them play a big role in the final picture."
Created specifically for this exhibition and presented at the gallery's entrance is another visual surprise that underlines the connection between these two artists, neighbors and friends- a photograph of Abelardo Morell titled, "Paint: After Anthony Fisher's 2021 Painting 'Some Will Still Be Standing', 2022" right next to the actual painting that inspired this work.
Free tickets are available for the opening and closing reception during AHA! Night, Thursday February 10, 6-8 pm (Artist Talk starts at 6:30 pm) and AHA! Night, Thursday, March 10, 6-8 pm at umassdartmouthgalleries.eventbrite.com. The exhibition is open free of charge between February 2 - March 10, 2022. No reservation required to visit the gallery daily from 9 am to 6 pm.
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, SMAST, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing
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Virtual Study Abroad Advising
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- Contact: International Programs Office
- Description: Have a quick question for a study abroad advisor? Would you like to start planning your study abroad experience? Join us on zoom to discuss opportunities. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis.
For zoom meeting information please contact Gina Reis at greis@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Study Abroad
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Spring recess begins (after last class or lab)
- Location: UMass Dartmouth
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: N/A
- Contact: Registrar's Office
- Description: Spring recess begins today after last class or lab.
NOTE: Please consult the PCE calendar if you are taking courses through Professional and Continuing Education.
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/academiccalendar/
- Topical Areas: Academic Calendar, Academic Calendar - Spring
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ECE Master of Science Thesis Defense By: Onelis Ivette Sanchez
- Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115,
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: Topic: A Comparison of Thresholding Methods for Two-Dimensional Wavelet-Based Image Denoising
Location: Charlton College of Business Conference Room, CCB-115
Abstract:
Applications in remote sensing, medical imaging, and target detection rely on relatively noise-free images to draw essential inferences for machine learning and eventual human interaction. Denoising images can be challenging due not only to the stochastic nature of additive noise but also to the complex, varied, and unpredictable nature of the actual image to be recovered. For these reasons, image-processing techniques are developed to provide solutions to improve images taken from corrupted measurements.
The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is widely used within the image processing community as it provides a bases that concentrates energy in relatively few coefficients for a wide range of image types. Such representations are considered sparse and do not lend themselves to conventional linear filtering. The DWT provides a computationally fast projection of the image onto the orthogonal multiscale and spatially localized wavelet bases. Unlike the conventional Fourier bases, which rely on phase across the entire set of bases to capture localized features, the DWT captures the scale and localized nature of the image features in a very small subset of bases. This particular property of wavelets proves useful as many two-dimensional signals prove quite sparse in the wavelet domain. Optimal denoising of such sparse, non-stationary structures requires the adaptation of conventional methods.
This thesis focuses on denoising images via nonlinear thresholding techniques in the wavelet domain. Different adaptive and non-adaptive wavelet-based thresholding methods are presented: VISU-Shrink, SURE-Shrink, and Bayes-Shrink. For clarity, the focus is provided on four test images corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) at several noise variance levels. The relative merits of soft and hard thresholding are also explored. Performance in terms of mean-squared error, peak-signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), and structural similarity index are provided. Under these test cases, Bayes-Shrink soft thresholding outperformed VISU-Shrink and SURE-Shrink. Bayes-Shrink soft thresholding, on average, generates an improvement of PSNR of roughly 14.5 dB.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Gendron
Committee Members:
Dr. John R. Buck, Chancellor Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UMASS Dartmouth; Dr. Antonio H. Costa, Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UMASS Dartmouth
*For further information, please contact Dr. Paul J. Gendron via email at pgendron@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Financial Aid Help Labs
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 128
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Financial Aid Services wants to remind all students to file their FAFSA!
Join the Financial Aid Services Street Team for FA Help Labs on Wednesdays from 4 to 5 p.m. and Fridays from 4 to 5 p.m. in Library 128 for help filing your FAFSA and learning more about financial aid.
Contact Mark Yanni
myanni@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Financial Aid
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We Were There
- Location: Frederick Douglass Unity House
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Join us for a multi-media women's labor history project depicting our sister's struggles from abolitionist Sojourner Truth, fighting for women's rights to Dolores Huerta fighting with the farm workers of today. Music by Bev Grant veteran and social activist, feminist, singer/songwriter from Brooklyn, NY and formerly leader of the band, Human Condition.
Frederick Douglass Unity House
Sponsored by the Arnold M. Dublin Labor Education Center
Contact: Kimberly Wilson, kwilson@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Students, University Community, Black History 4 Seasons
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