In 'Dark Beauty,' artists struggle with technology's assault on originality
Narrowsburg, N.Y. Exhibit of the works of Daria Dorosh and John Tomlinson opens with a reception on Feb. 8 at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance.
| 20 Jan 2020 | 04:28
Daria Dorosh and John Tomlinson (
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Artists Daria Dorosh and John Tomlinson are celebrating 50 years of creating art in adjacent studios. Their art will be featured in the exhibit “Dark Beauty" Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, and shows how the concept of dark beauty manifests itself across art, fashion, technology, and ecology.
“Our art practice straddles two worlds, the analog and the digital,” says Dorosh. “Access to technology takes us to exciting places where humankind has never gone before. At the same time, privacy and originality are disappearing. Our struggle with an uncertain future asks for compassion for ourselves in this passage of dark beauty.”
The exhibit opens at Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, 37 Main St., Narrowsburg, on Saturday, Feb. 8, with an opening reception from 3 to 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The show will be on view at the Alliance Gallery through March 14. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The work in “Dark Beauty” includes several mediums, such as Dorosh's graphite drawings on polyester and digital animation, and Tomlinson's large digital prints, mappings, and wearable textile sculpture.
“I know as an artist that art has no answers but rather asks questions about life and the world we share,” says Tomlinson.
Dorosh and Tomlinson have lived in the Upper Delaware River Valley since 1998.
The activities of the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance are made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
For more information, visit delawarevalleyartsalliance.org or call 845-252-7576.
About the artists
Daria Dorosh is a co-founder of A.I.R. Gallery in New York, a non-profit arts organization founded in 1972 by 20 women artists to provide an alternative to mainstream institutions that excluded women. Dorosh studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology and at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in New York. She taught fashion design at FIT most of her life and fine art at Parsons School of Design in New York for nine years.
John Tomlinson was born and educated in Boston and eventually landed in New York City, where he found his element as an art student at Cooper Union, graduating in 1970. In 1980 he began teaching art, mostly drawing, at Parsons School of Design Fine Arts in New York, France, and Italy. He taught drawing at the National Academy of Design for eight years and directed the New York Studio Residency Program for 21 years.