“The View From Here”, Ellen Burnett's solo exhibition at ARTIFACT will be on view November 7th-November 26th, with an opening reception on November 7th from 6-8pm.
ARTIFACT is located at 84 Orchard Street, NYC.
ArtTable Event For Srividya Kannan Ramachandran's Solo Exhibition: “A.I. Generated Art”
“Meditating amidst a worldly blaze” by Srividya Kannan Ramachandran
MeetAT at Viridian Artists
Thursday, November 8, 2018
6:30- 8:00 PM
Join ArtTable for a MeetAT at Viridian Artists. ArtTable MeetATs take place every other month with members and friends meeting for drinks and light refreshments at a gallery space. Open to Prospective Members! Feel free to bring a friend!
Srividya Kannan Ramachandran Speaks about Artificial Intelligence In the Arts: An Interview with YouTube influencer
Press Release: Vernita Nemec's Installation, “The Endless Junkmail Scroll” on exhibit at the Edward Williams Gallery
“The Endless Junkmail Scroll” on exhibit at the Edward Williams Gallery
Teaneck (October 9, 2018) – Artist Vernita Nemec presents “The Endless Junkmail Scroll”, which will be on display at the Edward Williams Gallery on Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Metropolitan Campus from Monday, October 15, through Friday, November 30, 2018.
The Gallery is located in FDU’s Edward Williams Hall, 150 Kotte Place, Hackensack, N.J. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. There is no admission charge.
About the Artist
“The Endless Junkmail Scroll” is Vernita Nemec AKA N’Cognita’s solution to dealing with all that mail we get that tries to persuade us to borrow money, open another charge account or accept services we have no need for. It is a site-specific installation of junkmail that has been collaged, painted and hung, twisted, curling and meandering through the space with lighting and shadows accentuating its presence.
The artist states, “I think of the Endless Junkmail Scroll Installation as an interactive site to be physically experienced as an environment that in past times might have been a forest or jungle since destroyed in order to make the paper that becomes the endless junkmail filling our mailboxes daily. I want the Endless Junk Mail Scroll to be a thought-provoking installation that addresses environmental issues of the 21st century: the destruction of natural resources, the overloading of landfills, over-consumption of material possessions, over-crowding. Issues that if not addressed with recycling and re-use will result in life, as we know it, being over.”
Nemec has exhibited her work through the world, presenting not only visual art but also performance art in which she incorporates both movement and text. Her art is in many collections throughout the world, including the Savaria Museum in Hungary, the Museum of Modern Art and in the Sylvia Sleigh Collection of Feminist Art at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. In addition to being an artist and independent curator, Nemec is also the director of Viridian Artists, a gallery in the Chelsea art district of New York City.
Press Release: "New Artists Pop Up"
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"NEW ARTISTS POP UP"
October 23- October 27, 2018
Reception Thursday October 25th, 6-8pm
Ernesto Ruiz Bry * Ellen Burnett * Kiffi Diamond * Kazuo Ishikawa * Marco Lando * Nancy Nicol
Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present "NEW ARTISTS POP UP"The exhibition continues from October 23- October 27, 2018 with an opening reception October 25th, 6-8pm.
Its always exciting the first time one sees a small body of work by an unfamiliar artist, so periodically Viridian uses whenever available moments arise, to do so. These 6 artists are yet to have solo exhibits at the gallery, but we seized this moment to introduce their art to you in a short one week pop-up exhibition. All but Marco Lando who uses photography as his media of choice, incorporate found objects or collage in their work.
Ernesto Ruiz Bry is an Argentinian artist based in Fort Lauderdale. Bry creates large collages of sport figures primarily, whom he admires for their perseverance and fortitude. His collages employ images from magazines that would be discarded if not used to create art. Like many who work in the collage medium, he feels that the recycling of the magazine images is not only helping to save the environment, but serves to give them a new life as well.
Ellen Burnett and Kiffi Diamond are both artists who recycle discards, though their recycling is focused not on paper, but on objects of all sorts. Burnett was one of the winning artists in our 28th Annual Competition juried by Susan Thompson of the Guggenheim Museum. At an early age, her mother introduced her to collage and assemblage by often taking her to MOMA and teaching her frugality, after having lived through the Great Depression. Burnett creates both collages and sculptural compositions from a wide range of objects and materials she collects and meticulously organizes in her studio.
Kiffi Diamond is a collage and assemblage artist too, who was born into a family of artists in Los Angeles. Her interest in collecting and collage comes out of an early passion for Victorian ephemera. Using her signature style and strong design sense, she combines idiosyncratic materials into witty visual narratives.
Kazuo Ishikawa comes to Viridian from Tokyo, Japan. He has a very unique way that he approaches creating his collage/ assemblages that incorporate plastic, metal and wood as well as paper. He begins his compositions first with vanishing points that he then connects with lines and shapes, keeping the work in bas relief with just an illusion of dimension.
Marco Lando’s photographic practice is intended as epic and revolutionary. Fragments of architecture and portions of cities exist against the background of a cloudy sky or mountain peaks, creating the scenario of the “Alchemy” series. In order to create an immediate visual and emotional upheaval, Lando often chooses to play architecture against nature: representing what matters most, daily life and shelter, while employing objects such as blankets, as metaphorical tools.
Nancy Nicol is still a New Yorker at heart, after commuting daily as a school kid from New Jersey & collecting found objects, bits of rusty metal and whatever along the way. Now she lives in a totally different setting on Cape Cod, but her early NYC journeys to school, the museums and urban neighborhoods still impact the art she makes today. Her collages and sculptures continue to be created from the detritus of moments.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM
For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com
Press Release: Srividya Kannan Ramachandran: “A.I. Generated Art”
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Srividya Kannan Ramachandran
“A.I. Generated Art”
October 30 - November 24, 2018
Opening reception, Thursday, November 1st, 6-8PM
Closing reception on Saturday November 24th, 4-6PM
Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present "A.I. Generated Art", our first solo exhibition of AI-generated images by Srividya Kannan Ramachandran. Her exhibition continues from October 30th to November 24th, 2018 with an opening reception, Thursday, November 1st, 6-8PM and a closing reception on Saturday November 24th, 4-6PM.
“A.I. Generated Art” is a collection of images that were generated from an A.I.’s consciousness. All but one of the images (can you guess which?) in this show were entirely created by artificial neural networks. Like a parent or teacher teaching art to a student, Ramachandran trained the artificial brain with her pre-existing corpus of abstract art. After the training process is complete, the A.I. is free to generate new art in the same style that it has learned. The promise of imbuing a machine with creativity opens new vistas for “art” as we define and know it.
For decades now, computers have been used to automate routine and tedious tasks. But what lay beyond the ability of computers, was to simulate the human intelligence, and even beyond that, lay artistic creativity. Technology has evolved to a point where A.I. can now “learn” from an artist and generate new art by itself. What then is the meaning of art? This ground-breaking work by Ramachandran, a data scientist by day and an artist by night, at the intersection of technology and art, seeks to redefine aesthetics for an A.I. dominated future.
In Ramachandran’s words – “The purpose of my art is to delight those who set aside searching for purposes in life, if only it be for the brief time they spend gazing at my work. Beneath the ever-running reductionist outer mind, we all possess a silent mental substratum. Reposing in this substratum – termed ‘chitta’ in Sanskrit – yields a serene sense of bliss and also an effortless identification with a universal transcendent self. Our innate propensities embedded in our sub-conscious prevent us from resting perpetually in this tranquil state. Instead, these propensities impel us to react to all inputs in Pavlovian reflexive fashion.”
The aim of Ramachandran’s art then is to gently attenuate these propensities by using abstraction to directly color the chitta and induce in it a sense of “impersonal” delight that is distinct from the usual responses of either joy or disappointment. Art perceived by this inner intuitive self, escapes the confines of being the artist’s work solely and is uniquely reborn in every gaze on it within each distinct individual.
The artist will be speaking about the technical details of creating these works at MLConf 2018, a machine learning conference in San Francisco on November 14, 2018.
This will be Ramachandran’s first solo show at Viridian Artists. She was initially invited to become a part of Viridian after being one of 30 artists selected for the Director’s Choice exhibit, a juried exhibit that happens periodically at Viridian. We look forward to your seeing these wonderful new artworks.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM
For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com
or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com
Ellen Burnett: Open Studio Evening: Friday January 21st, 7-10 PM
And They Danced by the Light of the Moon
27”w x 25”h x 2”d
Mixed Media including wood, rubber, string, wire, sand, glass, telephone cord, crystal beads
Ellen Burnett will be having an Open Studio event on Friday, January 21st, 7-10 pm
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Open Studio Evening -
Friday, September 21, 7-10pm
34 Liberty Place
Weehawken, NJ
Wally Gilbert : Art Show in in Cambridge, MA
Wally Gilbert
Art Show
University Place
124 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA.
Opening Party:
Thursday, October 4, 6 – 8 pm
Artist's Talk:
Thursday, October 11, 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Press Release: BOB TOMLINSON “Still Crazy After All These Years”: A Retrospective
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BOB TOMLINSON
“Still Crazy After All These Years”
A RETROSPECTIVE
October 2 - 20, 2018
Opening reception Saturday, October 6, 2018 3-6 pm
Champagne and conversation with the artist, Saturday, October 20, 3–4 pm
Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present a retrospective of works by Bob Tomlinson. The exhibit opens October 2nd with a reception on Saturday October 6th, 3-6 p.m. The work will be on view through October 20th. The artist will be at the gallery on Saturday, October 20th, the final day of the exhibit, for champagne and conversation from 3-4 p.m.
There are two kinds of artists, a Picasso who is constantly changing his style and a Balthus who is relatively stylistically stable. The first case does not exclude recurrent themes and a recognizable mark, nor does the second exclude a subtle stylistic evolution. Tomlinson’s art is somewhere between the two. One of the joys of a retrospective is that it allows both the viewer and the artist to reflect on recurrent elements and themes in the work.
In Tomlinson’s art, it is not far-fetched to see echoes of the early woodcuts in the graphic style of his later works. His abstract collages prepare the viewer for the collage passages of the later oil and collage paintings. Beyond variations of style and media, in Tomlinson’s paintings there is an ongoing concern with the human body as the primary expressive tool. Faces are turned away and except for the portraits, we seldom see the eyes. Ignoring the traditional distinction between naturalistically depicted figures and abstract forms, the sensuous color and bold, sinuous contours of this artist’s elusive and lyrical paintings play on the tension between figurative references and abstracted shapes.
Tomlinson is a Jamaican-American artist born in Brooklyn, New York. He has shown widely in Paris, London, Amsterdam and New York and is represented in many international public and private collections including those of the Clark-Atlanta University Museum, City University of New York, the late Dr. Maya Angelou, Sir Shean McConnell, Lord and Lady Hirshfield, Sr. Franco Trecanni, Mme Linda Weil-Curiel and Herr Frits Bernard.
A graduate of Pratt Institute and the CUNY Graduate Center, Tomlinson is also a scholar of French Literature and Aesthetics and has lectured and published in both disciplines, as well as in Afro-American Studies. He figures in the books, 100 New York Painters by Cynthia M. Dantzic (Schiffer, 2006) andBlack Paris Profiles by Monique E. Wells (2012) and is one of the artists studied in a recent Masters Thesis by Charlotte Barat, Artistes Noirs Américains à Paris (1945-1969), (Université de Paris I, Panthéon- Sorbonne, 2014). He is also the subject of a film project by well-known documentary filmmaker Louis Massiah.
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12 pm - 6 pm
For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Director, at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com
Work by Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad featured in Dab Art's Quarterly Journal and Online Exhibition
Two works by Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad have been selected for Dab Art’s online exhibition and its first quarterly journal. Journals will also be added to the permanent catalog in the LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Balch Art Research Library.
These political works along with 33 others from different artists are currently featured in an online exhibition from September 1 until December 1 for Dab Art and Artsy.
This exhibition explores various views on current political, geopolitical, and social issues from a selected group of contemporary artists.
Viridian's Summer Intern Marqusha Oliver Featured in the Southeast Missouri News
Southeast Fine Arts Student Explores New York Art Scene
Southeast Missouri State University student Marqusha Oliver traveled to New York City this summer to intern in one of the city’s finest and most highly respected art galleries.
Oliver interned at Viridian Artists Inc., an artist-owned, professionally operated gallery, located in New York City in the Chelsea region of Manhattan. The gallery is one of the city’s oldest artist-owned galleries housing contemporary art.
Courtesy of Southeast Missouri State University
Press Release: John Nieman: "Art with a Story"
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JOHN NIEMAN
"Art with a Story"
September 4th-September 29th, 2018
Opening Reception, Thursday, September 6th, 6-8 pm.
Closing Reception, Saturday, September 29th, 4-6pm
Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present "Art with a Story", an exhibition of paintings by John Nieman. The exhibition continues from September 4th to September 29th, 2018 with an opening reception, Thursday, September 6th, 6-8 pm.
Art with a Story is more than a series of paintings, but a body of work that is also a book & a series of audio recordings as well. As a book, its 139 pages of what one reviewer called “Flash Fiction” are one-page stories filled with creativity and inspiration overlaying the paintings that they are about. Here in this exhibit we are made privy to the paintings themselves for unlike other authors who use a photograph to inspire the words & story, Nieman creates watercolors to draw us in. He then superimposes words connected to and clarifying what the images are about – giving them a deeper meaning then the surface of reality and what is seen at first glance.
Multi-talented as both a writer and a painter, the images are realistic in their execution with a slightly soft focus, but with the addition of his words, he adds meanings that go much deeper than the object depicted. With the layering of both word & image the artist’s intention is to create space for a bigger impact of the themes of the works. "A picture is worth a thousand words" describes his art perfectly, though only superficially, since for him it is the idea that holds the greatest importance whether word or image or both. And hoping to make people see reality in a different light, both the ordinary and the unusual, these paintings incorporate words and images in equal power.
The artist, who has been a "voice over actor", has added recordings that can be listened to while viewing. "Hi-tech" recording of these stories he has written in the artist’s voice accompany all the images are accessible by a QR code or cell phone number. You can just “read” the painting, but if you do, you risk missing his dramatic interpretation. John Nieman's art continually connects the verbal and the visual, whether with recordings accompanying the art or in paintings with images that have words superimposed and often both, as in this exhibit.
Nieman is continually fascinated by the nexus of art and pop culture, perhaps because before turning to fine art over a decade ago, he enjoyed a successful career in advertising, but he is no “Mad Man” at heart. Since leaving the advertising world he has exhibited widely and collections of his paintings and poems have been published in "The Art of Lists" and "The Art of More Lists" and "The Wanted Book". Nieman's art hangs in collections throughout Europe and the US.
This will be John Nieman's second solo exhibit at Viridian, his first a series of Wanted Posters of people who are wanted because of their good deeds and ability to inspire rather than their crimes.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM
For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com
Painting by Nancy Nicol in Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Silent Auction
"Two Herring Gulls," oil on panel for the 12x12 exhibit and silent auction at PAAM, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, one of 307 entries. Bids start at $125.00
Press Release: “Real Concerns/Imaginary Perceptions”
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“Real Concerns/Imaginary Perceptions”
Viridian Affiliates
July 17 - August 11, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 19, 6-8PM
Closing Reception: Saturday, August 11, 4-6PM
Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad* Deb Flagel * Charles Hildebrandt * Barbara Hillerman * Jenny Belin *
Matthias Merdan * Vernita N’Cognita * Carolina Poggi * Kathleen Shanahan
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present an exhibition of outstanding art by nine artists who are part of Viridian Artists' Affiliate program. The “Real Concerns/Imaginary Perceptions in these artists' creations are not immediately apparent, but each has a personal vision that that often supersedes their imagery and in these times of complex real events. Their meanings & motives reveal themselves and it is then that we understand move clearly their “Real Concerns/Imaginary Perceptions”. The show extends from July 17th to August 11th with receptions to meet the artists Thursday July 19th, 6-8pm & Saturday, August 11, 6-8PM.
Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad’s latest series reflects her abiding desire to use traditional techniques and mediums such as encaustic, raw pigments and metal leaf to create contemporary images which reflect very modern concerns. Her work focuses on the contradictions between what things appear to be and what they actually are, especially at this time of fake reality and alternative facts. Based in Montreal, Canada, Ackad is increasingly showing her works in the United States. Most recently, at the Alexandria Museum in Louisiana, at the American Swedish Institute and the Hopkins Center for the Arts in Minneapolis where she was awarded 4th place in the pastel category in the 23rd Arts in the Harmony International juried exhibit.
Deb Flagel’s "All That Is", a mixed media assemblage, like much of her art, is about the accumulation of momentary glances. As she records the environmental landscape that surrounds us, her mind pieces together line, color and shape, constructing an emotional response. The artist says “signs and symbols become metaphorical. Emotion and experience become tightly stitched. Senses heighten. Clarity of intention unfolds. The energy of truth moves closer”. Originally conceived a decade ago, this work speaks clearly about the dangers lurking in our reality today.
When viewers look at the paintings of Charles Hildebrandt, they may see a landscape that they recognize somewhere in their own mind; perhaps a familiar place or an aspect of a past experience. For this artist, many childhood and adult memories are the roots of the conception of the images, with perhaps the wish of holding onto the past. In these paintings too, we are helped to realize that the places and individuals we cherish, undergo constant transformation as do we.
Barbara Hillerman sees reality through the lens of design and visual structure as much as through reality’s multitude of meanings. The elements of design play a dominant role in her images for her journey as an artist was initially begun via graphic design. The artist’s intent when she photographs is to ask the viewer to "read" her images from the visual clues she supplies, but then to come to their own conclusions.
Vernita N’Cognita has been working for decades with materials that are valueless trash, first junkmail and more recently, plastic packaging. An outstanding attention-getter is her “Endless Junkmail Scroll”,an ongoing work which is now over 400 feet long. The artist is constantly searching for new ways to present the work, offering it for just $10 a linear inch to be torn away from the whole & presented separately as a constant reminder that all that we discard is adding to the ongoing pollution of our environment. In the fall, she will be having a solo exhibit of the Scroll and related works at Farleigh Dickinson University and last February it filled 3 galleries at the Crary Gallery in Warren PA.
Matthias Merdan is a Swiss artist whose work is also embedded in the re-use and recycling of the discarded. He enjoys exploring materials, forms and concepts, always surprising viewers with works often potent with their messages.
Jenny Belin’s recent work is inspired by the studies of flowers, cats and dogs that she has drawn in her sketchbooks.
Carolina Poggi worked with Fatima Quaglia and Julio Bernal graduated from the National Dance Academy of Uruguay, to create this photographic essay “The prison of freedom” at the Contemporary Art Museum which was formerly a female penitentiary. This environment was a key element of inspiration to contrast artist’s freedom in a space which topically represents repression.
Poggi studied at the Cinema School of Uruguay specializing in still photography and has long been fascinated with photographing dancers in performance and in rehearsal. She is drawn to the concept of the photo-essay and has set up her own black and white lab working on several essays ranging from architecture to nature and especially, dancers. Her work has been displayed in Uruguay and abroad both in solo and group shows. In the past, she worked as a dance photographer shooting trainee dancers at the National School of Dance of Uruguay.
Kathleen Shanahan’s mixed media works owe much to print making studio practices and the processes of layering and sequentially developing unique effects. The artist creates her “pastiched” imagery through collage and the juxtaposition of diverse elements. Here, her piece, entitled “Real Concerns”, is embedded in fantasy that choreographs our imagination as she manipulates it.
Viridian's Affiliate program is one of the many ways in which our gallery continues its mission of supporting the art of outstanding "underknown" artists.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12- 6 PM
For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director
VA Summer Intern
We are thrilled with our summer intern, Marqusha Oliver from SE
Missouri University.
Gallery Director Vernita Nemec Juries the "Wordplay" exhibit at Woman Made Gallery, in Chicago
WORDPLAY
July 6 – July 28, 2018 | Opening Reception: Friday, July 6 | 6–8 p.m.
Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport #4A-3
Chicago, IL 60608
(312)-738-0400
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CHICAGO —Woman Made Gallery (WMG) is proud to present the exhibition ‘Wordplay,’ an exploration of how artists intertwine text and image to deliver message and effect change. From handwriting to video, poetic thought to political activism, this group of artists incorporate letters, numbers and symbols to give meaning to their art.
Exhibiting Artists:
Angela Amias; Marjorie Arnett; Rebecca Baruc; Emily Beck; Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura; Ruth Burke; Megan Cherry; Maryangel Garcia; Fran Gardner; Kyra Garrique; Nina Ghanbarzadeh; Naomi Hart; Maxine Hess; Leslie Hirshfield; Brooke Jana; Mary Sue Kern; Rachel Kice; Maria Kompare; Tracy Kostenbader; Dorothy Krause; Katherine Krcmarik; Carole Kunstadt; Angela LaMonte; Cynthia Lee; Minjoo Lee; Gayla Lemke; Marcy Lichterman; Jackie Lima; Ara-Lucia; Rosemary Lyons; Megan Mattax; Jenna McDanold; Mary McFerran; Pamela Penney; Cynthia Petry; Nichole Riley; Emanuelle Schaer; K. Elizabeth Sekararum; Jenny Stopher; Harriette Tsosie; and Jessica Wagner.
About the Juror: Vernita Nemec
Vernita N’Cognita aka Vernita Nemec is a visual/ performance artist/ curator who has exhibited her art throughout the world.
Her artwork ranges across a variety of disciplines, from creating installations, m/m collages and tangible art objects such as the “Endless Junkmail Scroll to the creation of performance art that conceptually investigates theatre and its edges – using language, space, and time, silence and stillness as well as movement and voice as an instrument of self-expression.
In the 90’s she served for a decade as the Director of Artists Talk On Art interviewing art world luminaries such as Irving Sandler, Rob Storr, Jerry Saltz, Nancy Spero, Peter Plagens and Robert Rosenblum. She was an independent curator at Henry Street Settlement for the Arts and currently, is the director of Viridian Artists, art gallery in Chelsea, NYC.
In 1995, she assumed the name VERNITA N’COGNITA in homage to under-recognized artists. In addition to her ongoing artistic output, she has curated and organized important exhibitions of art from recycled materials (“Art from Detritus: Recycling with Imagination”) throughout the U.S., for which she received a Kauffman Foundation Fellowship and a grant from the Puffin Foundation.
Nemec AKA N’Cognita has presented her art in a variety of venues: galleries, universities and experimental spaces in the US, Mexico City, Darmstadt & Frankfurt in Germany; Dublin, Ireland and Tokyo, Japan. She has received funding for her performance art from the Jerome Fnd and the NEA and in 2010 and 2015 was invited by Movement Research to perform at Judson Church where performance art came alive in the 60’s.
Ellen Burnett Open Studio
Things that have potential beyond their initial existence;
they speak to me.
- Open Studio Evening -
Come see the artist in her natural habitat!
Thursday, July 12, 6 - 8pm, 34 Liberty Place, Weehawken, NJ
All Our Yesterdays, 29"w x 25"h x 3.5"d. Mixed Media including various woods, metals, glass, feathers, paper, orange peel, fabric, ceramic, pine needles, bone, bronze spill.
www.ellenburnett.com
Nancy Nicol at Burdick Gallery in Wellfleet, Mass.
Opening reception with oil paintings featuring ponds and waterscapes and sea life. Address 25 Bank Street, this family-owned gallery is a secluded gem with a Japanese style garden and fountain. Feel free to enjoy the garden with refreshments and meet the represented artists.
Press Release: Viridian's 29th Annual International Juried Exhibition
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Viridian's 29th Annual International Juried Exhibition
Juried by Johanna Burton, Curator at the New Museum
June 19– July 14, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 21, 6-8 pm
Panel Discussion: Thursday, July 12, 7pm
With Ms. Burton and a selection of the participating artists
1st prize - Beverly Smith 2nd prize - Song Park 3rd prize - Samantha Lamprecht
Shayee Awoyomi * Chellis Baird * David Bartlett * M. Mark Bauer * Sara Catapano * Andrew Chalfen *Christopher Daniggelis, * Gina DeCagna * Uday Dhar * Steph Gorin * Maki Hajikano * Jingmei Han *Joan Harmon * You Jin Jeong * Hyun Jung Ji * Betsy Meyer * Heidi Nam * Perez Reiter * Maria Santiago *Bushra Shamma * Nadia Yaron * Zach Zecha
Chelsea: Viridian Artists Inc. is pleased to present our 29th International Juried Exhibition curated by Johanna Burton, Curator at the New Museum. The exhibition opens June 19th and continues through July 14th, 2018. In celebration, a special reception will be held on Thursday, June 21st, 6-8pm. We are especially pleased to present cash awards to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners of this important competition that brings the art of emerging and under-recognized artists to the attention of museum curators.
Ms. Burton was selected to be this year’s juror of our annual competition because of a recent exhibition she curated at New Museum entitled “Trigger” that included much fascinating art addressing many issues particularly relevant in today’s world.
As always, Viridian makes a concerted effort to expand the opportunities for outstanding artists’ work to be seen and exhibited. Consequently, the gallery director, Vernita Nemec, also selects artwork from those submitted that will be viewable in digital form. We hope to exhibit those Ms. Nemec has selected in another exhibit entitled “Director’s Choice” during next season. We feel it important to tangibly demonstrate that curatorial choice is often as much about personal taste as it is about the "quality" of the art for "quality" in art is often open to opinion.
The competition selection as always was difficult, but especially so for the nature of art in our world today encompasses a wide variety of methods, materials and conceptualizations of what art is. Curiously, both Ms. Burton and Ms. Nemec selected many of the same artists, despite the many outstanding and diverse submissions.
More than 400 artists submitted over 1200 submissions, a daunting task, but Johanna Burton, who juried this year's competition, did an outstanding job. We look forward to sharing this fascinating exhibition of timely contemporary art by artists we are sure you will see more of in the future.
"Director's Choice" to be presented digitally
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Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM
For further information, please contact Vernita Nemec the gallery director by phone at 212 414 4040 or by email at viridianartistsinc@gmail.com. Please visit the gallery website at www.viridianartists.com.
Work by Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad will be on exhibition at the Alexandria Museum of Art
Viridian Affiliate, Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad’s painting ”Butterfly etc...was selected by the juror, William U. Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia for the international exhibition at the Alexandria Museum of Art Juried Exhibition.
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This same work, “Butterfly etc” was awarded the Merit Prize in 2017 at the ISEA ( International Symposium of Experimental Art) International Exhibition by juror, Jade Dellinger, Director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery in Southeast Florida .