Last Chance

Catch It or Regret It

by Lydia Navatsyk

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Published: Mar 6, 2007

Remember that awkward, droll high school instructor you always pitied because he had never found true love? Meet Boney Kern (Marc Weil), middle-aged English teacher and hopeless romantic. Kern spends the summer boarding at a house in the suburbs, studying for his master's and falling in love with beautiful, blind Julie (Sarah Kiefer). The only thing standing in his way? The landlord, who also happens to be Julie's eccentric, overbearing grandmother (Jean Brooks). Comedy — romantic and the interfering-in-law kind — ensues.

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David Graham's photographs, bereft of humans but marked by intimate signs of habitation, depict the isolated island that became one couple's hideaway for 35 years. In 1949, at the age of 38, Nan and Art Kellam moved to Placentia Island off the coast of Maine. The only thing that intrudes on Graham's crisp presentation of their love story — their teacups perfectly hung, their notes scrawled to each other — is the mystery of what led, and kept, them away from civilization for so long.

Were it not for the fluidity with which Jina Valentine moves from photographs to wood carvings to paper rubbings, her exhibit of 60 pieces might seem daunting. She deconstructs pop-culture images, portraying artists and events in complex layers. One image blends into the next until the borders separating each piece of work are decipherable only upon close study.

 

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