From Chester County To Cuba: Artists Share Experiences In Cuba In Unique Public Gallery

WEST CHESTER, PA -- "Cuba - It's Complicated: Layers of History, Perception, and Change," a unique public gallery, will feature the work of five Chester County artists and their experiences on the island nation that has so long remained accessible only to the American imagination.

"Cuba is a land that has for so long been shrouded by controversy and contradiction, separating myth from the reality of Cuban daily life is all but impossible for the vast majority of Americans," a press release from gallery organizers states. "For five renowned Chester County artists, however, understanding Cuba and sharing their discoveries has become a passion that will be on full display with (this) photography exhibit."

The gallery, hosted by West Chester's Sunset Hill Fine Arts Gallery, will open on Friday, October 7 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. It will be open through October 29.

The exhibit features more than 250 photos which together work to create a vision of Cuban life over the course of three years.

Artists Darcie Goldberg, Ellie Byrom-Haley, Ben Richardson, Steve Adams and Tracy Colletto Adams had the opportunity to learn Cuba inside out during their experience there.

“Our journeys to Cuba were impactful on so many levels, both in a purely human sense but also creatively,” said gallery artist and former Chester County Art Association Executive Director Darcie Goldberg. “The way the five of us could all be together at the same place and time, yet all have such different results and influences on our artwork, was remarkable. Cuba pushed all of us to elevate our artwork both individually and collaboratively.”

Admission is free.

Image courtesy Sunset Hill.