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Exhibition about the fragility and awe-inspiring nature of our oceans at the Pelham Art Center

PELHAM, NY.- Pelham Art Center starts the fall season with The Ocean Reglitterized, an exhibition about the fragility and awe-inspiring nature of our oceans, through October 29, 2011. The exhibition features an extensive look at life in the ocean through photography by Edward Burtynsky and Edward Dorson, a site-specific sculpture by Jae Hi Ahn, an ocean sound installation specifically created for this exhibition by Liz Phillips and an outdoor sculpture installation by Chris Smith in the Art Center’s courtyard. The Ocean Reglitterized gives viewers the opportunity to re-see and re-experience the wondrous and fragile nature of the ocean through image and sound. Edward Dorson, underwater photographer and a staunch activist for the oceans, presents a series of images that brings rarely seen ocean life up close and personal. His photographs are meant to provoke an understanding of the ocean as a fragile environment th