UConn Traditions

Volume 4, Number 1 - Spring 2003

Mary Kocol '84 (SFA) has established a reputation for being able to transform ordinary domestic and street scenes into dramatic works of art through her highly acclaimed photographic techniques. She has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the William Benton Museum of Art at UConn. She has served as a visiting artist at Harvard University, Philips Academy, Massachusetts College of Art, San Francisco Art Institute, School of Museum Fine Arts and the Photographic Resource Center. Kocol's animated short films have been screened in museums and film festivals internationally, and she has won Best Animated Film prizes at the New England Film & Video Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Utah Film Festival, Humboldt International Film Festival and Hiroshima Animation Festival. Her many other awards include a 1993 Guggenheim fellowship for photography.

Artist's Statement
"Photographing at dusk achieves dramatic color, night shadows, and creates stillness within a city in motion. Film can record the varied energies associated with the movement of light. During a long exposure, the film 'remembers' the actions of light moving before it and saves these movements on a single frame, so that they are seen as if they occurred at the same time. The camera is used to capture alternative sources of light: moonlight, man-made lighting, moving headlights, fire truck lights, etc."

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	UConn Traditions

		Volume 4, Number 1 - Spring 2003 Canal and Gondola at Night, Venice. © 1994, Mary Kocol www.kocomotion.com Mary Kocol '84 (SFA) has established a reputation for being able to transform ordinary domestic and street scenes into dramatic works of art through her highly acclaimed photographic techniques. She has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the William Benton Museum of Art at UConn. She has served as a visiting artist at Harvard University, Philips Academy, Massachusetts College of Art, San Francisco Art Institute, School of Museum Fine Arts and the Photographic Resource Center. Kocol's animated short films have been screened in museums and film festivals internationally, and she has won Best Animated Film prizes at the New England Film & Video Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Utah Film Festival, Humboldt International Film Festival and Hiroshima Animation Festival. Her many other awards include a 1993 Guggenheim fellowship for photography. Artist's Statement "Photographing at dusk achieves dramatic color, night shadows, and creates stillness within a city in motion. Film can record the varied energies associated with the movement of light. During a long exposure, the film 'remembers' the actions of light moving before it and saves these movements on a single frame, so that they are seen as if they occurred at the same time. The camera is used to capture alternative sources of light: moonlight, man-made lighting, moving headlights, fire truck lights, etc." Table of Contents
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