Running from April 1, 2016 to May 8, 2016 in the Main Gallery
The New Art Center is pleased to announce a series of pop-up shows that will take over our main gallery this spring. These short exhibitions highlight some of our community partners and teenage students, and offer the chance to experience the range and depth of programs offered by the New Art Center.
About the Exhibitions
The Women of Rosie’s Place
April 1-10, 2016
Reception: April 8, 6-8PM
For over 40 years, Rosie’s Place has been providing a safe and nurturing environment that helps poor and homeless women maintain their dignity, seek opportunity and find security in their lives. This exhibition showcases some of the ways that, through art-making, Rosie’s Place women are able to express themselves and tell their stories. The New Art Center is proud to have partnered with Rosie’s Place over the past two years by providing instructors, facilities, and gallery tours as the women of Rosie’s Place explore their creativity.
NAC Teen Artist Showcase
April 15 – 22, 2016
Reception: April 22, 4-6PM
This year, the New Art Center has more returning teen artists than ever before. This band of budding talent has worked together for several terms to hone their skills and create some of the most advanced work we’ve seen from our teen classes to date. This exhibition highlights their growing creativity and the budding community that they’re building in our studios.
Quicksand sink
the more you struggle, the faster you
April 29 – May 8, 2016
Reception: April 29, 6-8PM
A MassArt Curatorial Studies Pop-Up Exhibition organized by the Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Graduate Seminar in Curatorial Practice: Casey Ausman, Samantha Bates, Janet Loren Hill, Jennie Kormanik, Alyssa Minahan, Landon Newton, Danielle Palmer, Emily Vallee, and Wan Yang.
FEATURED ARTISTS: Salome Asega, Casey Ausman, Bashezo, AK Burns, Carlos Jimenez Cahua, Caleb Cole, Furen Dai, Allison M. Disher, Janet Loren Hill, Pope L., Curtis Mann, Susan Metrican, Alyssa Minahan, Landon Newton, Diana Jean Puglisi, John Robert Roy, Suzanna Scott, Corinne Spencer, Josh Stone, Triiibe, Xtina Wang, and Joe Zane
Quicksand is a group exhibition that addresses the unseen body within contemporary culture. Quicksand is deceptive. From a distance it appears solid, but on closer contact it becomes dangerously unstable. Within the discourses of art and politics, the body finds itself on similarly shifting ground as a physical, digital, and conceptual presence in flux.
Quicksand, a pop-up show at the New Art Center in Newton, MA, will feature work that disrupts expectation by erasing, covering, and fracturing the human form, asking broader questions about the spectrum of cultural visibility. Through the lens of a fragmentary experience, the body becomes an allusion, goes missing, or is present as a mere impression. The figure on view here is unstable, like quicksand, and contends with the boundaries of identity, territory, and the negation of the body through technology.
The New Art Center is pleased to be partnering with MassArt for the first time by offering our main gallery to the graduate students learning curatorial studies under the instruction of professor Dina Deitsch. This exhibition will serve as the final class project and has been developed collaboratively by the students throughout the semester. This partnership sprang out of the New Art Center’s Curatorial Opportunity Program (COP)and reflects our commitment to supporting emerging curators as they carry out innovative projects in this expansive field.
