Group Exhibition: The Artist's Journey
Featuring IFA Member Artist Lenny Rumpler
On view at IMAGO Gallery February 12–March 21
Reception Saturday, February 14, 5–8 PM | Music by David Hanssen and Karl Dennis
Featured Artist Lenny Rumpler
Rumpler’s artwork in this exhibition at Imago Gallery includes examples of several phases of his life-long photographic journey—florals and still life, architecture and nature, including both color and black-and-white photographs that speak to his love of learning and constant search for new subjects and techniques.
Rumpler’s parents gave him his first camera in 1941 and thus began a photographic journey of constant experimentation and rethinking of his approach to both medium and subject—ever searching—even today at the age of 96.
Though largely self-taught, Rumpler studied the work of many great photographers and completed a Master Class in Printing with John Paul Caponigro at the Maine Photographic Workshops in 2003. Besides Imago, he is a member of the Providence Art Club, the Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, and the Portsmouth Arts Guild.
Lenny Rumpler, Shutters, Photography
Howard Rotblat-Walker, Threading the Limits Plate, Photography embedded 3D Print
Spotlight Artist Howard Rotblat-Walker
Work for this exhibition is a continuation of the series that was stimulated by his seeing M.C. Escher's Circle Limit III at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. He says, “I started researching Escher's approach when I realized that his work went beyond a straight-forward kaleidoscopic rendition. What I discovered was a world of complex geometric possibilities, many being based on rendering three dimensions in a two-dimensional space. Then, as I began creating new work with an underlying spherical geometry, I started thinking about how to transform these into actual 3-D objects.”
The pieces on view at Imago are the results of his experimentation. In addition to a new “Limits” series print, there are two of his first 3-D plates printed with patterns from his 2-D work embedded in them along with reduced-size prints of the original work.
Howard Rotblat-Walker, The Limits of Color
Guest Artist Jordyn Fullaway
Fullaway is showing large-scale, acrylic self-portraits.
Hair is finger-painted in repetitive, circular motions, emphasizing rhythm, variation, and the physical act of making. Facial features are built with brushwork that exaggerates scale and distorts proportion—eyes multiply, profiles stretch, and forms remain slightly off-center. These choices are less about representation than about sensation: how it feels to look, to notice, to be seen.
“These works explore identity as layered and multiple rather than singular. Built through intuitive gestures, finger-painted repetition, and exaggerated features, they give form to distinct internal selves informed by personal myth and ancient forms. The portraits feel familiar but undefined, holding space for multiplicity rather than a single, fixed identity.”—Jordyn Fullaway
Jordyn Fullaway, Moon Girl, Acrylic on Canvas