For Immediate Release
September 7, 2006

Local Artist Exhibits The Land Beneath at The Center at High Falls

‘The Land Beneath,” a photo exhibition by local artist, Connie Shermer Ehindero, opens at the Center at High Falls on September 17th with artist’s reception between 3 and 6pm. The show runs through October 31st.

Ehindero, a Brighton resident and Irondequoit native was educated at St. Lawrence University and the London College of Printing and Visual Studies. Her interest in the medium of photography continued locally at the Community Darkroom. Professionally, Ehindero was art director at Light Impressions and vice president of Saatchi & Saatchi. For the past 12 years she has owned and operated a print business called Parallel Print. Though printmaking and other visual media have remained important creative vehicles, Ehindero has never swayed too far from her early love of photography.

Connie Ehindero was a Kodak kid, where her father spent his professional life and she spent summers during college on the instamatic camera assembly line. Her training and expertise in the art of photography continued over the years and in 1979 through 1980 she was hired by Wegmans as art director/photographer where she proudly recalls photographing Robert Wegman, as well as using her camera to exhibit various fat contents of beef for trade journals.

“The Land Beneath” demonstrates another love of Connie Shermer Ehindero – nature. Her photographs explore land use and natural formation. The artist maintains that “the power of this natural wonder can still be felt under city development…there is beauty in asphalt cliffs, in natural shale bluffs and in factories…in stream beds and in electrical generators.” She asks, “Can we still feel the earth beneath our human land transformations?”

Ehindero further demonstrates her love of nature by belonging to the Genesee Land Trust, serving on its Board of Directors and multiple committees, regarding its work of preserving land and waterways as a noble goal.

“The Land Beneath” will show some familiar images, all taken in the Rochester area. Still other local images may be unnoticed works of art, what Ehindero calls “the visual abundance of the world…the gift to the senses.”

The photo exhibition of Connie Shermer Ehindero opens at the Center at High Falls on Sunday, September 17th running through October 31st. Gallery hours are 10 to 6pm weekdays and 1 to 5pm on Sundays. For more information about this show and the Center at High Falls, call 325-2030.

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Contact:
Margaret Potter, Assistant Dir, Genesee Land Trust
256-2130 info@geneseelandtrust.org

Connie Ehindero re quotes: 739-1747 ehindero@rochester.rr.com