Out of Focus: Blurred Images at the Museum of the Imagination, 217 Warren St., Hudson, NY, explores the intentional and unintentional occurrence of blurriness in fine art and other imagery – from Velasquez’ shadowy portrait of the royal couple in a mirror (“Las Meninas”) to early photography, including “spirit photography” and trompe-l’oeil painting, to deliberate blurring in advertising, the use of contrasting hard and soft focus, and blurred images in contemporary painting.

As in the Museum’s previous exhibitions “Spheres”, “The Reaper”, “The Hand,” “Monsters”, and “Metaphysical Heads and Busts”, the Warren St. space is divided into two sections, one filled with original works and artifacts, the other showing images from Mihail Chemiakin’s research into the subject, as well as demonstrations of Chemiakin’s research methodology.

The exhibit includes original works by Nikolai Makarov, Carlo Mattioli, Tom Froese, Jacuqline Wilder, Giovanni di Mola, Oleg Tselkov, Vladimir Zimakov, Andrei Chezhin, Boris Zaborov, Ludmilla Chezhina, Krasimir Angelov, Arkady Lvov, David Lvov, Grzegorz Kepinski and Mihail Chemiakin.

Sponsored by Bridging the Ocean Foundation

Past Exhibitions :

- Metaphysical Heads and Busts
- The Hand
- The Reaper
- Spheres
- Monsters in Art