Reeves Exhibit to Open at Handwerker Gallery Daniel Reeves's video installation, Eingang, (The Way In), will open October 7 at the College's Handwerker Gallery. Presented for the first time in three years, Eingang will be shown in conjunction with other Reeves works in an exhibit entitled The Hand That Holds Up All This Falling. Free and open to the public, the exhibit runs through December 13. Reeves, a 1976 Ithaca College graduate, is one of the world's foremost video and installation artists. Created in 1990, Eingang was Reeves's third video installation but remains his best known. "The exhibit says a lot. It has an environmental emphasis, as well as a strong antiwar strain," says Handwerker Gallery director Tom Somma. "Like all great artists, he takes personal experience and presents it in a way that universalizes that experience so we can all draw meaning from it." Much of Reeves's work springs from his experience in Vietnam, where as a young marine he was one of the few in his platoon to survive an ambush that coincided with the beginning of the Tet Offensive. Later, Reeves would say that his strongest memory of the first few hours spent in the hospital "was that of being intensly aware of some deep otherness." Somma says Reeves is set apart from other video installation artists because of his skill with technology and his ability to blend that aspect of his work with a "poetic" side. "He's actually a romantic artist, able to take highly technological materials, blend them with organic materials, and pass them through his very romantic temperment. We don't perceive the exhibit as just a piece of technology, but as a very romantic piece of art."

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