Artist reception anf book signing at SCCC

| 18 Oct 2016 | 12:15

— Sussex County Community College announces MANUAL: ‘The Personalities of Hands’ at the Art Gallery (C Building) on Friday, October 21 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Bill Westheimer, the artist, will be signing his book during this opening reception. The event is free and open to the public.
MANUAL: The Personalities of Hands is a fine art exhibition and a book of portraits with a twist: personal stories and private secrets told through images of hands. Readers witness the diverse range of humanity through photographs and photograms of hands rather than traditional pictures of faces. Westheimer has captured the hands of 150 people from diverse walks of life, including a priest, rock star, trapeze artist, mentalist and politician. 78 of the portraits appear in the 96 page full color book.
Since making his first photograph at age 14, Westheimer has been fascinated with alternative processes including holography, solarization, and high contrast imagery. At Union College Bill studied with noted painter and educator Arnold Bittelman. He continued with his experiments in photography and experimental image making while completing college.
Additionally, he studied with Jerry Burchfield who introduced him to color photograms and Cibachrome (Ilfochrome) printing. Bill went on to teach Cibachrome printing at Colorado Mountain College in Aspen. He learned the 19th century technique of collodion glass plate photography from the leading experts in the field: France Scully and Mark Osterman.
His works are exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. The exhibit will remain up in the SCCC Art Gallery for viewing from October 21 through November 25.