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"Connecting Points" at Zeitgeist, sex workers at Wellesley, and the PRC Benefit Auction at BU
BY RANDI HOPKINS
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Originally from Argentina and now based in Connecticut, painter Lisie S. Orjuela has a dreamy way with figures on canvas. Her richly colored, flowing female forms interact with flora and fauna in ambiguous environments, dissolving and re-emerging from their lush ground in a way that evokes the inner world of psyche and spirit more than a specific, recognizable external reality. In her artist statement, Orjuela says, "The paintings appear to have a story, yet there is no particular narrative, only hints of life, life processes, transformations, passages, and relationships. They offer a moment out and through the world of the literal, the maze of outer fact, into our depths." "Connecting Points: Paintings by Lisie S. Orjuela," a selection of her large, vibrant paintings, opens October 24 at Zeitgeist Gallery in Inman Square; there’s a public opening reception October 29. Harsh reality — and human resiliency — are the subject of "One Red-Light District, Two Different Visions," a festival of films documenting the lives of sex workers in India and South Korea that will screen at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College October 25 and November 2. This Tuesday at 5:30 pm, the festival presents Ross Kaufman & Zana Briski’s 2004 Best Documentary Oscar winner, Born into Brothels, a portrait of children living in the red-light district of Calcutta, where their mothers work as prostitutes. Briski is a New York–based photographer who spent years with these children; in the film, the simple act of giving each of them a camera makes a tremendous impact on their lives. Then at 7 pm, Tales of the Night Fairies follows the struggles of sex workers in Calcutta. It was directed by feminist scholar and filmmaker Shohini Ghosh, who will host a post-screening discussion. And Kaufman, Briski, and Ghosh will all discuss their work in a free round-table discussion on October 27 at 6 pm. More than 200 fantastic contemporary and vintage photographic finds — including Harold "Doc" Edgerton’s 1964 MIT Banana Split, John O’Reilly’s haunting 1988 Spanish Toast, Mark Morrisroe’s sexy 1983 Kato Contemplates the Meaning of Life, and Judy Haberl’s frosty 2002 Dark Mirror II — are being auctioned off in the always top-notch annual Photographic Resource Center Benefit Auction on October 28. Admission is $50; advance registration buys you an auction catalogue, an auction paddle, a light buffet from East Meets West, parking, and a shot at some great acquisitions. "Connecting Points: Paintings by Lisie S. Orjuela" @ Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge St, Inman Square | Oct 24–Nov 7 | opening reception Oct 29, 3–6 pm | 617.876.6060 or www.zeitgeist-gallery.org | "One Red-Light District, Two Different Visions" @ Collins Cinema, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, 106 Central St, Wellesley | Oct 25–Nov 2 | 781.283.2051 or http://www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu/ | Photographic Resource Center Auction @ 808 Gallery, Boston University, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston | Oct 28, 6:30 pm | $50 per person | 617.975.0600 for reservations or http://www.bu.edu/prc.
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