Photography by Mitzi Cross and retired APSU Professor Malcolm Glass will be on exhibit at The Framemaker as part of Clarksville’s First Thursday Art Walk on Thursday, June 7, 2012. An opening reception will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The exhibit, titled “Shadows of the Light Body,” will remain on display at the Framemaker throughout the month of June during normal business hours (Mon. through Fri. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.).

Malcolm Glass is co-founder of the one of the South’s pre-eminent poetry journals, Zone 3. He served as an APSU Professor of English from 1962 to 1999.

Cross and Glass have shown their work in numerous galleries and juried exhibitions in the mid-south. The exhibition of portraits and figure studies of women focuses on alternative photographic processes such as solarizations, hand-colored photographs, and bromoil prints. Also featured is a series of works that emulate well-known paintings. Most of the photographs in the exhibit are one-of-a-kind works.

Author and photographer Malcolm Glass writes, “My hope as an artist is to reveal far more than surface line and contour, more than the modeling of bone and muscle. The female figure is the ultimate challenge for an artist because beneath the lovely surface lies the mystery of woman and the power of the feminine.”

Artist Mitzi Cross states, “Like Man Ray, I tend to depend more on ‘inspiration than information.’ Although these processes are highly technical, it is the element of chance and discovery that motivates my explorations. I hope that these processes enhance and illuminate my original perception of the feminine and the ephemeral beauty of women.

The Framemaker is located at the corner of North Second Street and Georgia Avenue, across from The Clarksville Academy.