OPENING RECEPTION:

October 24th, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

ARTIST TALK:

October 24th, 6:15-7:15 p.m.

EXHIBITION DATES:

10/15/24-11/12/2024

EXHIBITION LOCATION:

New Art Corridor
245 Walnut St.
Newton, MA 02460

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

In the Making: Finished and Unfinished Works in Dialogue, an Exhibition Curated by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer Opens Tuesday, October 15th

Free and Open to the Public

Newton, MA-The New Art Center Fall Exhibition, curated by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, “In the Making: Finished and Unfinished Works in Dialogue” asks artists and viewers alike to recontextualize our understanding of success and failure. Artists share a parallel journey through creativity with a submitted piece they find “Successful” and one they think “Fall short.”

Displayed as pairs, the works create a visual conversation exploring the complex relationship between achievement and failure, intention and outcome. The exhibition exposes the raw, and often hidden side an artist’s practice, breaking down the myth of effortless genius and making the creative process more accessible.

“Often, the artist is at odds with their internal vision, and what ‘needs’ to be represented in the final output. Julie’s exhibition is asking both the viewer and artists to reconsider what makes something complete,” says Exhibitions and Special Projects Manager, Lennon Hernandez Wolcott.

Exhibiting Artists include Susan Alport, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, Walter Baranowski, Virginia Cramer, Brea Corcoran, Matthew Day, Rachael Dubinsky, Martha Heller, Sasha Knittel, Sarah Moriarty, Ellen Nani-Vargas, Monica Raymond, Mandy Rider, Ron Roberge, and Lennon Hernandez Wolcott.

An artist talk, featuring curator Julie Fei-Fan Balzer in dialogue with Featured Exhibiting Artists will be held on Thursday, October 24 at 6:15 p.m., with the exhibition up through Tuesday, November 12, 2024.

This exhibition is part of the “Curating at the Intersection: The Power of Equity in Exhibition Program,” featuring three exhibitions annually. Designed to support early to mid-career BIPOC community writers, artists, and thinkers, New England-area artists get the opportunity to execute their own thematic vision with practical gallery and exhibition experience. This program has emerged from the The New Art Center’s BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Curatorial Program, piloted in 2020, which was designed to offer the opportunity for guest curators of color to curate three exhibitions annually within New Art’s ongoing Exhibition Program.

The New Art Corridor is sponsored by Village Bank, Mass Cultural Council, and Mark Development. New Art’s Curating at the Intersection, Exhibition Program is supported by Village Bank, Newton Cultural Council, and Harmony Foundation.

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