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The New Art Center
has a 31-year tradition of using the
Main Gallery for group
exhibitions (two persons or more) curated by an exhibiting artist
or independent curator. Since May 1991 we have continued this
tradition through a public call for proposals.
The deadline for the Curatorial Opportunity Program was April 8, 2009. Applicants will be notified by May 15, 2009.
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Recent History of NAC Exhibitions
Congratulations to the
Curatorial Opportunity Program Selections
for the 2009-2010 year.
Fall
Decidedly Ambivalent
September 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, September 25, 6-8pm
Gallery Talk: TBA
  
 
 
Curated by Lisa di Donato & Anna Mogilevsky
Featuring the work of (left to right, top to bottom): Anna Mogilevsky,
Carin Mincemoyer, Steven Millar, Lisa di Donato, Rob Carter,
Patrick J. Campbell, Leah Beeferman and Sonjie Feliciano Solomon.
Winter
Sailing the Barbarous Coast
Opening Reception: TBD
Gallery Talk: TBD
Curated by Anthony Smith
Featuring the work of (left to right, top to bottom):
Anthony Smith Jr. and Colin Matthes.
Spring
Architecture of Fragments
April 10 - May 24, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, April 10, 6-8pm
  
Curated by Petra Kralickova
Featuring the work of (left to right):
Tannaz Farsi, Elissa Cox and Petra Kralickova
...AND A SPECIAL SPRING EXHIBITION:
raw & cooked
Featuring the work of Roger Kizik and John Murray
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March 9-29, 2009
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Left: Jag, by Roger Kizik; Right: Self in Desert, by John Murray
This exhibition’s title refers to the name of a volume from Mythologiques I-V, written by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. In his writings The Raw and the Cooked, Strauss analyzes the cultures of so-called primitive societies through their processing and technical treatment of their objects, language, and food. While Levi-Strauss referred to the lesser (raw) and greater (cooked) extents with which cultural objects are created and activities performed, Murray and Kizik apply this spectrum of treatment to their art. Kizik’s work often shows a highly-elaborated metaphoric and decorative approach and treatment, while Murray’s work often shows an aggressive undercutting of this kind of refinement. Even so, both artists work within the spectrum of the raw and the cooked. In this context then, Kizik’s Jag, with its highly worked paint surface of abstract swirls meets Murray’s Self in Desert, an assemblage that connects a wooden architectural mold with a cactus root smothered in paint and resin.
The works of Roger Kizik and John Murray span a wide range of materials, scale, and content. In this exhibition gallery visitors will find painting, sculpture, watercolor, printmaking, and mixed media work, in dimensions as varied as 4 x 6 inch linoleum block prints to 9 foot tall paintings. Both Murray and Kizik refer to the natural world and the postmodern world of art and industrial materials in their work. Each artist works figuratively and abstractly. Both seek to provoke and engage.
HOLZWASSER GALLERY:
EYE WITNESS
Works by Sherry Autor
Visionary, by Sherry Autor
The portrait gallery that comprises EYE WITNESS is a commentary on aspects of contemporary society and the players who are prominent in news headlines. In the emerging new world of the 21st century, there have been seismic shifts in global equilibrium and also in our own cultural landscape. According to artist Sherry Autor, we are all eye witnesses to present-day history in the making.
Sheep, the protagonists of these portraits, are depicted as exemplifying human characteristics. Whether funny, sad, poignant, or angry, they are portrayed as acting as we do. They engage us in dialogue. They observe us as we observe them, speak to us of their lot in life, and speak for us about ours. This interpretation of the sheep as human-like has a long history in art and literature. Sheep and lambs have been taken as metaphors for the human condition, especially in religious thinking. They have been seen as peaceful animals who graze safely under the watchful eye of a benevolent and powerful shepherd. They have also been given the role of sacrificial victim, led willingly, or not, to the slaughter.
In creating these portraits, Autor has used a palette composed of the colors, textures, and physical “stuff” from the world around her. Layers of paint and materials are added to and subtracted from the surface of a painting’s support and reach out beyond the flat surface to encounter the viewer.
Please contact Ceci Mendez,
Director of Exhibitions & Community Partnerships
at (617) 964-3424
for more information.
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