Cathy Caplan

Piese de Cathy Caplan

Lapis Blue Blood Red: Based on the tumultuous life of Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi,
Silver Nitrate: Silver Nitrate-- mingling drama, music, song and photography--unfolds in three photographic studios across the three years (1930-1933) that lead to the imposition of laws that disallowed Jews from working in Germany as photographers. Once it penetrates that something is wrong outside the walls of the studio, the artists react in panic, confusion and blind self-interest. The art remains, but the artists are gone and their studios are empty. "Silver Nitrate"--referring to the chemical that reacts to light by coating film with darkness--illuminates the intersection of art and politics.