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Please join Bry Sharland on Wednesday, January 7 at 5:30PM for an artist reception. His exhibit, Pink Triangle Portraits, will be on display in the Flora T. Little Art Gallery through the month of January.No registration is required to attend. The gallery is open during library hours.
Brief Biography
Bry Sharland is an artist and art teacher. He grew up in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and attended Massachusetts College of Art and Bridgewater State University for undergrad. He holds two masters degrees, one from Endicott College and another from Fitchburg State University. His artwork focuses a great deal on portraiture and the use of bright, saturated, and often neon color. Bry primarily uses colored pencil, acrylic paint, and oil paint in his work.
Bry is the creator of the Pink Triangle Portraits Project, a quest to paint or draw a portrait of every photographed queer victim of the Nazi regime and Paragraph 175. The lack of recognition and justice for queer victims drives Bry to continue his artworks until he has completed every single one of them. Through his work, he hopes people will stop, look, and contemplate those who paved the way for our rights today, and understand just how tenuous those rights can be around the world.
Besides creating art, Bry is an avid tropical and fruiting tree gardener and Nintendo gamer. Bry lives with his husband Brian and dog Luna in Raynham, Massachusetts.
About The Exhibit:
The exhibit is intended to be both artistic and educational. The purpose of the Pink Triangle Portraits Project is to create a portrait of every photographed queer victim and survivor of the holocaust. I have researched this often overlooked and obfuscated topic since high school. With each portrait, the original black and white photos are transformed back into color, adding soul and depth to an often soulless concentration camp or police intake photograph. The striped pajamas are stripped away and the queer human underneath is presented as a real, living person who existed and just wanted to live their life true to themselves. I have also researched biographies about the individual which will be displayed with each portrait. I hope to restore some of their humanity and give them that chance, if only in memory of them and by sharing their story. The exhibit would feature a number of the portraits I have completed, as well as information about the people and the project in general.
Website & Social Media:
https://www.bryansharland.com
Instagram: @pinktriangleportraits @brysharlandart
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