Relics and Ruins
(November 14 - December 14, 2008)

“Relics and Ruins” was the title chosen by Aberdeen artist, Paula Guhin, for her new exhibition that opened at the Dacotah Prairie Museum on November 14, 2008.

Paula Guhin is a South Dakota native, an educator, visual artist, photographer and writer. Guhin’s non-fiction books include Glorious Glue, Art with Adhesives and the soon-to-be-released: Creative Photography Ideabook.
(Goodheart-Willcox). She is also looking forward to the publication of Photo Art Workshop in 2009. Her articles have appeared in School Arts, Instructor Magazine, Teaching Today and many other periodicals

Guhin has participated in the Smithsonian Folk Arts Festival, Washington, D.C., and the National Gallery of Art Educator’s Institute; she is also a Sharpe Scholar (Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation).Guhin is an associate of the ArtWorks Gallery in the Lakewood Mall, where she exhibits mixed-media collaged paintings and assemblages as well as photography.

"Photography seized my mind’s eye when I was just a child, and I am still in love with it after all this time,” say Paula. Explaining the new exhibit at the Museum, Guhin writes, “The world is filled with vibrant colors , elegant lines, and gorgeous texture, if only we look for it. I try to capture the unusual, even if it is a new take on the most ordinary objects. I’m most exhilarated and inspired when natural elements combine with the man-made to lend character, personality. Decay, faded beauty, a sense of pathos, wreckage, empty shells-all these things hold a certain fascination for many of us. As I walk among the remains of ruined, classic old cars, acquiring vivid colors and forms on film, often I caught movement in the corner of my eye. The phantoms made me smile.”

For information on past exhibits in the Lamont Gallery, please click here.