The Artist Study Group presents

Photographer Terry Frishman, MBA

Pareidolia 2.2:  Awakening Our Unconscious

Underwater (2023)

Source: Window

Elements: Glass, Window Soap, Reflections

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

from 1:30-3PM EST

Join us in person at the Institute Library at 20 West 74th Street

or via zoom at: https://wawhite.zoom.us/j/8180152948?pwd=cDkrUTlMSndQendyZzhnc054c0tpQT09

The Artist Study Group presents an immersion into a stimulating Rorschach-like experience of mindfully seeing our everyday, overlooked world through Pareidolia 2.2. Engaging our conscious and unconscious, this approach finds deeper meaning in random textures and patterns that go beyond seeing faces or animals in cloud formations. It can be applied in our offices and shift habitual perspectives.

By seeing the world through a Rorschach lens, photographer Terry Frishman discovers fantastical figures and otherworldly landscapes from accidental patterns and inanimate textures. Tree bark, swirling water and wet asphalt reveal found imagery and visual narrative poems beyond the surface or objects themselves.

Her body of work explores how perspective and imagination can broaden our observations and understanding of the transformations we are living through. She investigates how we might view urban elements and decay while considering broader themes of visibility, recognition and the relationship between seeing and knowing. Where our gaze skims and sometimes ignores, Terry’s photos crop to unmask the invisible. We look forward to a lively discussion on how being present and aware through Pareidolia 2.2 can engage our patients, inspire emotional responses and shift how we see.

As well as being a gallery-represented photographer, Terry Frishman (MBA, Columbia University, Art History BA, Smith College) is an art business consultant, educator and on the Board of the American Society for Media Photographers in NY. She helps clients move forward by defining their “why,” setting goals, strategizing and identifying opportunities. This year, her artwork will have been exhibited in Barcelona, Brooklyn, Hastings-on-the-Hudson, Molena (GA), Stamford and Philadelphia. You can learn more about her art on her website TerryFrishman.com. Feel free to reach out to Terry@TerryFrishman.com about potential partnerships, if you’re not able to attend in September.

To attend this event, please RSVP by emailing:  fvdillon@gmail.com

Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD are Co-Directors of the Artist Study Group.