Synchronicity
Eva Weiss and Cheryl Finfrock
Exhibition Dates: 2/22/2024 - 3/23/2024
Opening Reception: 2/24/24, 5-7
East Side Third Thursday Late Hours 6-8
“Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated, or unlikely to occur by chance, yet are experienced as occurring together in a meaningful manner.” Carl Jung
Finfrock and Weiss were happily surprised by the striking resemblances in specific images captured by Weiss's camera and depicted in Finfrock's paintings. With a closer examination, they realized that this was more than just a chance happening. The works of Diane Arbus, Mike Disfarmer, and Alice Neel, all of whom have influenced Finfrock and Weiss, have permeated their artistic styles. This discovery revealed that the similarities between their works were not coincidental but, instead, an intentional manifestation of the artists' shared influences and love of portraiture.
With this common ground in mind, the artists created the exhibit “Synchronicity.”
Eva Weiss is an internationally exhibited and published fine art photographer. Her original images have often been described as classical, theatrical, and dreamlike. From Philadelphia with a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, she has photographed performance artists, visual artists, and choreographers. Her work focuses on, but not exclusively on, the LGBTQI community. Weiss is primarily a portraitist, and painters like Vermeer, the photographer Disfarmer, and 1950s pulp book covers influenced her portraits. The Museum of The City of New York featured four of Ms. Weiss’s images of W.O.W performers at the Gay Gotham 2017 exhibit. A series of Weiss’s photographs of lesbian performers were included in the Julia Margaret Cameron exhibit in Barcelona in 2019.
A Trinity University graduate in studio art and literature, Cheryl Finfrock explores the figure in its awkwardness, anonymity, and universality, creating a narrative steeped in the tradition of Texas storytelling. She has exhibited in the US and Europe, including NYC, San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, Sofia, Olmouc, Vancouver and Montreal. Her paintings can be found in numerous public and private collections. “My paintings are a study of people and places I’ve met, spotted, conjured, and dreamed. I extrapolate images from media, old anonymous flea market photos, and some of my photography, all to be compiled and rebuilt .”