OLEAN, N.Y. —The Tri-County Arts Council will exhibit the extraordinary digital art of Laura Cole in two exhibits, “Through the Looking Glass” and “Edwardian Olean,” beginning with an opening reception and artist talk from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 12.
The exhibit will continue through April 3 in the arts council gallery, 110 W. State St., Olean. The arts council is open 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, and 12 to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
Admission to the opening reception is free, only requiring reservations to observe Covid safety protocol. Reservations can be made on the sign-up link: https://signup.com/go/iXWLmHU
Laura Cole’s digital art is a masterful restoration of time-worn photography from a long ago era into fresh colorful portraits which transcend time and distance, linking the viewer with Olean’s forgotten Edwardian age.
The thread connecting all of her art is “the notion that objects from the past have the power to move us, emotionally, through time and space, to by-gone eras and otherworldly places,” she writes on her website: www.lauracolephoto.com
