Two Works by Marco Lando will be included in the Photography Series and Repetition Show at Site: Brooklyn Gallery. This show extends from May 3– June 1, 2019
The Opening Reception is on Friday, May 3 from 6-9 PM
Location: Site: Brooklyn
3106, 165 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Press Release: Robert Smith: “Portraits of Point Lobos”
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ROBERT SMITH
“Portraits of Point Lobos”
March 26 - April 20, 2019
Opening Reception, Thursday, March 28th, 6 - 8 p.m.
An evening of performance & poetry: Thursday April 11, 6-8PM free
Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present “Portraits of Point Lobos,” an exhibition of color photographs by Robert Smith. The exhibition spans March 26th to April 20th, 2019 with an opening reception, Thursday, March 28th, 6 - 8 p.m.
These archival pigment prints reveal a figurative narrative rarely seen as a series in the undisturbed natural landscape. At Point Lobos, just south of Carmel, California on the Monterey Peninsula, we have a magnificent natural area that has attracted photographers and other artists mostly for its vistas, scenics and many life forms inhabiting its shores and crevices. However, Smith wants you to become aware of
something else, the close-up tidal rock and sandstone that speaks a different language. That attendant and magical storytelling language translates to close-up images recognizable, principally as faces, and other portraits as seen in his mind’s eye. Although the images are labeled simply by number, can you spot the biker, the ship’s Captain, the serpent and “one-eye”?
Smith attributes his special way of seeing to the practice of Sensory Awareness, a discipline offering the gift of living more in the present moment that informs his vision. It’s been called the “Western Zen.” His insight came with the realization of the connection of living in the moment and taking a photograph in a fraction of a second. Ever since, working with minimal equipment and only one lens, a normal focal length macro, he has explored and discovered with fascination, the never ending visual potential of that which is close by and not seen, that you would just walk past.
Smith has two major bodies of work, one from Point Lobos and the other from a Maine coastal island where, at his summer studio, he leads “Steps to Seeing” Sensory Awareness walks to share his vision and give others the opportunity to see more. By offering a window onto the nearby, he illuminates the possibility that we can say “yes” to the wonder of the richness of our natural environment.
Robert Smith has had a wide range of solo and group exhibitions and his photographs are in numerous private collections worldwide, on six continents.
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
Celebrating Viridian's Women Artists: International Women's Day is Friday, March 8th, 2019
In honor of International Women’s Day, we are featuring Viridian Women Artists on our back wall.
Women’s History Month is a great time to expand your collections of Art made by Women.
Viridian Women Artists Are:
* RENÉE BORKOW * ELLEN BURNETT * MAY DeVINEY *KIFFI DIAMOND * BERNICE FAEGENBURG *
TAZUKO FUJII * OI SAWA * MAKI HAJIKANO * KATHLEEN KING * NAMIYO KUBO * NANCY NICOL *
STACEY CLARFIELD NEWMAN * MARY TOOLEY PARKER * SRIVIDYA KANNAN RAMACHANDRAN *
BARBARA K. SCHWARTZ * SUSAN SILLS * VIRGINIA EVANS SMIT * ANGELA SMITH *
Art Review in Newsday about Vernita Nemec 's exhibit : "Treasure That Trash" at Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Educational & Cultural Center, in Stony Brook, Long Island
Just more than 100 years ago, the French expatriate artist Marcel Duchamp submitted his iconic “Fountain” — a white porcelain urinal turned upside-down and signed “R. Mutt” — to a show sponsored by the Society of Independent Artists in New York. The seminal ready-made sculpture was rejected by the Society and then photographed by American modernist Alfred Stieglitz and likely tossed in the garbage. So began a trend of fashioning art from detritus and castaways that today, in light of heightened concerns about the environment, has value-added impact.
In anticipation of Earth Day, the Ward Melville Heritage Organization is giving fresh meaning to the old saw “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” with the exhibition “Treasure That Trash!” at its Educational & Cultural Center in Stony Brook. “What would normally spend its days in a landfill is transformed into something that inspires wonder and evokes beauty,” center director Kristin Shea says of the multimedia wall works, sculpture and installations contributed by the show’s 10 participants.
“I want them to be amazed,” says artist Vernita Nemec of viewers’ anticipated response to her free-form canvasses of glued-together plastic packaging, the kind of clear casing that retains the shape of the object it is holding. “I also want to inspire consciousness about the problem, for people to say, ‘Wait a sec, I don’t have to throw this away. I can reuse it — make art or something else.’ I want to give the message that there are other ways to upcycle and recycle.”
Bellmore and Aquebogue resident Bergés Alvarez also believes that art can play an effective role in relating that message. “Art extends our outlook, thoughts and feelings, spilling into our everyday lives. It inspires us to move forward,” notes the artist, who, when not in his home studio making land- and seascapes from used bits and pieces of tissue paper, Bubble Wrap and manila envelopes, works at Mineola’s NYU Winthrop Hospital as a radiology technician.
“When they’ve exhausted their initial intent, I transform them,” he says of his chosen materials. “I couldn’t throw away packaging. I found this beauty in their reflections and began to build them up on a tabletop in different arrangements.” After photographing and printing the results of his tinkering, Alvarez uses more traditional art media to apply the finishing touches on his surprisingly painterly compositions.
Also featured in the show are mixed-media pieces by artist duo Josyph & Larkin. The works, from their ongoing “Lives of the Saints” series, are a way for the artists to canonize their own secular saints using “rescued” materials such as commercial signs, newspaper, twine, postcards, ceramics, hardware and even toys and electronics.
“That doesn't mean we've had to dive into dumpsters to find things,” notes Peter Josyph. “The unused, the idle, the ignored, the discarded and disregarded are everywhere in every home.”
Josyph understands some people might not even see the assemblages as art. “That's OK,” he says. “If, for some viewers, they sing a little, or feel like a kind of odd-angle poetry, or somehow create a little magic — that's satisfaction enough.”
WHAT “Treasure That Trash!”
WHEN | WHERE Saturday, March 9, through Saturday, March 30, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Educational & Cultural Center, 97 Main St., Stony Brook
INFO $5, 631-751-2244, wmho.org
Ellen Burnett's Work at Art Fair 14C in Jersey City
“Colonel Mustard” by Ellen Burnett
“Colonel Mustard” by Ellen Burnett will be included in Art Fair 14C from March 15-17 at the Hyatt Regency on the Jersey City waterfront. Click here for Early Bird Discounted Tickets by March 10th. Use code EARLY BIRD
Three Artist Books by Namiyo Kubo Will be Exhibited in Brooklyn
Congratulations to Namiyo Kubo! Three of Namiyo’s hand-made books will be exhibited in
the “Lil’ Radicals: Multicultural and Social Justice Publications for Kids in the 21st Century” show
at Booklyn, Inc.
Lil’ Radicals: Multicultural and Social Justice Publications for Kids in the 21st Century
April 6, 2019 – May 31, 2019
Booklyn, Inc. at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, 140 58th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220.
Press Release: "30 Under 30"
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"30 Under 30"
Juried by Donna Gustafson, Curator of American Art and Mellon Director for Academic programs, Zimmerli Art Museum
February 26- March 23, 2019
Opening Reception Thursday, february 28th, 6-8PM
Closing reception Saturday, March 23rd, 4-6PM
Matthew Adelberg * Blake Lenoir * In Kyeong Baek * Maria Barrientos * Dan Brenton *
Danqi Cai* Brigitte Caramanna * Ashley Carroll * John Catania * Haoran Chang *
Tracy Shih-Tung Cheng * Landon Clay * Darcy Edwin * Rachel Fishman *
Jessica Ghyvoronsky * Danny Glass * Marcos Gonzalez Cutre * Ana Guraieb *
Alexander Harlan * Amorelle Jacox * Sarah Jarrett * Julia Justo * Joseph Kameen *
Junyi Liu * Stephanie Martin * Sienna Martz * Emily Quinn * Samantha Resendez *
Rachel Rosenfeld * Dareece Walker *
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present an exhibition of artists who are all under 30 years of age. “30 Under 30“ continues from February 26th to March 23rd, with two receptions to meet the artists. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 28th, 6-8PM and a closing reception Saturday March 23rd, 4-6PM.
In a world changing culturally and politically more rapidly than ever, these artworks perhaps offer a clue to ways artists will look at their lives and times through art making in the future. The artists in this exhibition were selected from a “call for art” the gallery sent out to discover what young artists are thinking and creating art about in these times.
From a wide range of applicants, the art of 30 artists, all under 30 years of age, was selected by Donna Gustafson, Curator of American Art and Mellon Director for Academic Programs at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University.
In her curatorial statement, Ms. Gustafson says: “The themes that repeatedly appeared in the full range of submissions included surveillance, privacy, and private life in a digitally mediated world; interior landscapes and abstract expressions; and the politics of our current moment --civil rights, gentrification, and sexuality in a post binary world. This selection of 30 artists, culled from a much larger group of 174, suggests that artists continue to be “the antennae of the race,” as the poet Ezra Pound described them in 1918.”
No longer are there large workspaces or showing spaces without huge rents available to artists. The struggle to be an artist full time is a dream few can afford and making art in shared spaces is the rule rather than the exception. Consequently, Viridian has created an affordable membership program for young and gifted artists for we realize not only how expensive space is today both for showing and working, but also, how important it is for artists to live and show their art in a competitive and supportive environment.
In addition, Viridian Artists is offering a fellowship in the name of Barbara K Schwartz, a founding Viridian Artist. It will be awarded to one of the exhibiting artists committed to joining Viridian and will be chosen by current gallery artists. The Barbara K Schwartz Fellowship covers the cost of their dues for one year.
As in the case of our juried exhibit open to artist of all ages and persuasions, Viridian has instituted a digital presentation of 30 artists selected by the gallery director, Vernita Nemec, giving an opportunity to 30 additional artists and giving gallery visitors a chance to see the work of more artists of merit. In actuality however, only 21 additional artists were selected, since 9 artists’ works were selected by both curators.
Just how difficult is it now is for young artists to achieve their dreams of fame, respect and possibly fortune? What are their concerns? What materials do they work with? How have social media, astronomical rents, and less space changed the way in which artists just beginning their careers express themselves creatively? To learn the answers to some of these questions, gallery visitors are invited to look at the art itself & also to meet some of the artists at the opening and closing receptions.
"Director's Choice" to be presented digitally
Matthew Adelberg * Lucy Clark * Remelisa Cullitan * Gina DeCagna * Grace DeWitt * Darcy Edwin * Stephanie Fenner * Alexandra Galiardo * Jessica Ghyvoronsky * Victoria Gu * Ana Guraieb *
Nicholas Harvilla * Amorelle Jacox * Sofiya Kuzmina * Sena Kwon * Rachel Litton * Junyi Liu *
Ania Mininkova * Tanner Mothershead Natalia Pas * Rozahira Pena * Emily Quinn *
Rachel Rosenfeld *Holly Ross * Matthew Simon * Emily Sortor * Gray Swartzel *
Kelly Villalba * Dareece Walker * Sara Wallach *
Toto Takamori's Opening Reception Part Two: Filmed by “Manny the art blogger” from Spectral Masters Digital Imaging
Hello, World!
“Manny the art blogger” from Spectral Masters Digital Imaging came by Toto Takamori’s opening and made a wonderful video for us! (Posting video in different sections) Thank you so much, Manny!
Here is more information about Spectral Masters Digital Imaging:
website: spectralmastersdi.com
Instagram: @spectralmastersdi
Toto Takamori’s Opening Reception: As filmed by “Manny the art blogger” from Spectral Masters Digital Imaging
Hello, World!
“Manny the art blogger” from Spectral Masters Digital Imaging came by Toto Takamori’s opening and made a wonderful video for us! Thank you so much, Manny!
Here is more information about Spectral Masters Digital Imaging:
website: spectralmastersdi.com
Instagram: @spectralmastersdi
Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad : Artwork Included in are included in Dabart's first quarterly art journal and book
Two works by Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad are included in Dabart's first quarterly art journal and book, Click-Bait.
Click-Bait will be added to the permanent catalog at LACMA ‘s (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Balch Art Research Library.
Jenny Belin Wins Voices Of The Year: Art As Impact Award From BlogHer.
Jenny Belin was given the "Art As Impact" award from BlogHer's Voices of the Year Award Ceremony.
Congratulations @jennybelin for winning the #VOTY Art as Impact Award #BlogHerHealth19 pic.twitter.com/U7RVDx7K4a
— BlogHer (@BlogHer) January 25, 2019
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Press Release: "UNTITLED" : Recent Paintings by Toto Takamori
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“UNTITLED”
Recent paintings by
Toto Takamori
January 29 – February 23, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 31, 6–8PM
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present an exhibition of outstanding art by Japanese painter Toto Takamori. The show extends from January 29 – February 23, 2019 with an Opening Reception on Thursday, January 31, 6–8PM.
Toto Takamori spends months creating his tiny 4x6 or 5x7 paintings. His paintings consist of layers and layers of oil paint, sometimes as many as 70 layers says the artist, but we must take his word for it. The paintings often take months to dry, but the wait is worth it.
These tiny gems are extremely colorful, sometimes with touches of glitter added, but most fascinating are those in which he mixes matte color with a greyish underpainting to mimic the surface of rocks altered by time and weather.
The artist is interested in continually exploring various paint media and combining them with pieces of found metal, plastic and other materials to create a textural surface.
Though he resides in Tokyo, he visits NYC often and is interested in studying both Eastern and Western approaches to creating art. He began as a figurative artist as many artists do, but now what is more important to him than depicting people or objects are the properties of the paint medium.
This is the first solo exhibition that Takamori is having at Viridian. We hope that you are able to attend this exhibition of captivating 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
View the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com
Press Release: “COMPLEXITIES II”
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“COMPLEXITIES II”
Viridian Affiliates
January 2- 26, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 10, 6-8PM
Performance by N’Cognita 7PM
JULIETTE GORDON * JOSHUA GREENBERG * ROSEMARY LYONS * MICHAEL RECK * SARAH RILEY * MEREDETH TURSHEN
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present an exhibition of outstanding art by six artists who are part of Viridian Artists' Affiliate program. The art of Viridian’s January Affiliates’ all display a complexity derived from both a political impulse as well as a creative impulse. All these artists create with the aim of going beyond the simplicity of pretty pictures, using their art to make visual statements in reaction to the various realities of today’s world. Some art speaks about the abuse of sexuality or uses the female form as the starting point while others abstract the realities of their experiences. The show extends from JANUARY 2ND TO 26th with an opening reception on Thursday, January 10, 6-8PM with a performance by N’Cognita at 7PM.
JULIETTE GORDON was a trailblazer, an important member of the feminist art movement in New York and a respected artist in the inner-circle of radical anti-war politics in the early 70’s. She suffered a stroke in 2001, but still would undoubtedly have taken her rightful place among more well known feminist contemporaries had her life not been drastically changed in 2003 by a disastrous fire in which she was seriously burned and nearly died. The artist, now 84, has been living in rehabilitation and nursing facilities since, but her spirit is not diminished. For the past 6 years she has been nurtured through bouts of self-doubt to continue creating by the artist Sharon Wybrants who continuously encourages her and visits her weekly. Dr. Andrew Hottle, who is an art historian and a specialist in feminist art of the 70’s, has created an inventory of Gordon’s oeuvre with the hopes there will be a retrospective one day of her work. Viridian is pleased to be showing collages in this exhibit that are a part of her body of work.
JOSHUA GREENBERG uses photo-based imagery to create abstract art. In The Secret Life of Leaves, he draws abstraction from everyday objects and events, in this case autumn leaves. The leaves are transformed through reflections and highlights into abstraction, and begin to organize themselves into new compositions. Shades of various colors, shadows and textures highlight movement and provide the framework to view the busy and secret life of leaves. His work in this series illustrates how photo-based imagery may help extend the use of less explored dimensions of photography to create contemporary art.
Because ROSEMARY LYONS was so shocked and appalled at the stories of the #me too movement and having had her own harassment experiences, a creative response seemed imperative to her. She states, “My own talents include being a good listener and a painter who specializes in egg tempera paintings of the exquisite flowers from my garden. Flowers seem to be a wonderful metaphor for what women are expected to do: be strong and beautiful through all storms and drought. I know that this work is important...the only sadness is that there are so many stories.” The works shown in this exhibit are her response.
MICHAEL RECK, though primarily an abstract artist, uses NYC and urban living for his inspiration in this new series of drawings/ paintings. In almost Haiku like phrasing, the artist states the following about the urban imagery that stimulated his visual response and was the foundation for these works:
“The graffiti covered subways I grew up riding.
The stripes of painted crosswalks underfoot.
The constant sight of buildings coming down and rising.
All of this has found it's way into my recent work.”
Artist and former chair of the art department at Southeastern Missouri University, SARAH RILEY, is a printmaker who incorporates many different techniques into her work. The original inspiration for DeCode/ReCode was one of her own life drawings, transformed into a series of twenty-five limited edition prints. The head of the figure and other photos were scanned, digitally manipulated and layered. She sees the process of allowing the image and successive variations to build and change spontaneously and organically with each added layer “to mimic the human condition, one woman/many women, issues of identity and history, especially women’s history.”
Meredeth Turshen creates intriguing oil paintings on paper that can be interpreted as summery landscapes or read as abstract works. Starting with drawings of live models, Turshen explores the use of the female figure as the basis of layered work. Her gestural abstractions use colors that are rich and subtle, giving the work tension and depth. Studies began at age ten at the Art Students League in New York with Saturday classes for children and continued, after majoring in studio art at Oberlin College, in workshops at Pratt, the Printmaking Council of NJ, the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, the CT Center for Graphic Arts, and for the past ten years at Vermont Studio Center. Turshen joined Viridian in 2007. She is a member of the National Association of Women Artists.
We hope to see you in January at this exhibition of captivating 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
Alan Gaynor is showing two works at the Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY
Alan Gaynor is showing two works at the Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY
LIMNER GALLERY
Holiday Small Works Exhibition and Sale
December 1 - 29, 2018
Reception, December 1, 5-7pm
123 Warren Street
Hudson, NY 12534
518-828-2343
TheLimner@aol.com
Gallery Hours
Thurs - Sun 12-5
Mon-Wed by appt.
Artists Talk on Art presents : "When the Artist is the Art": Panel & short videos & performances curated by Vernita N'Cognita and Coco Dolle
Press Release: “Who’s Naughty / Who’s Nice”Viridian’s Annual Holiday Invitational
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“Who’s Naughty / Who’s Nice”
Viridian’s Annual Holiday Invitational
November 27 – December 29, 2018
Opening reception: Thursday, November 29, 6–8pm
“East Village Happening in Chelsea”: An evening of short performances:
Thursday, December 13, 7pm (come before 8pm, so you aren’t locked out!)
Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present “Who’s Naughty / Who’s Nice,” Viridian’s Annual Holiday Invitational from November 27 – December 29, 2018 with an Opening Reception Thursday, November 29, 6–8pm & on Thursday, December 13 at 7pm, an evening of short performances, “East Village Happening in Chelsea” (come before 8pm so you aren’t locked out!)
Who’s naughty / who’s nice is a phrase from a Christmas song composed in 1934: “You better watch out / You better not cry / Better not pout / I'm telling you why / Santa Claus is coming to town / He's making a list / And checking it twice / Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice...” and it’s a carol that has stayed in our memories, reawakening holiday remembrances and the worry of what gift to get for whom. Why not give art? “Who’s naughty / who’s nice” is an exhibit filled with the perfect present for whoever is naughty/ whoever is nice! Some of the art addresses the subject, some doesn’t, but all is open to interpretation. And of course, in today’s world, art can be the safest way to speak one’s mind. Is our world making us forget how to be nice?
Viridian’s holiday show in December is an annual event filled with art by gallery artists and their artist-friends. In addition, Viridian will open its holiday Arte Shoppe, filled with artist-made cards, jewelry and small artworks. All items in the Arte Shoppe are priced at $99 or less.
In addition, on Thursday, December 13 at 7pm, Viridian presents an “East Village Happening in Chelsea,” an evening of short 8-minute or less performances and readings organized by Armand Ruhlman.
This was a special year, for Viridian reached its 50th birthday. To honor the nearly 200 artists who have been a part of the gallery in these past 50 years a catalog has been created and is available for just $10.
In these times of fake news and the dis-reality of horrible things being done in the name of the law, discerning and interpreting it all can be most safely done through art. We hope you will join us, perhaps putting thoughts of politics aside for a festive evening of celebrating the good and giving to those we care about.
Featured artists include:
Renee Borkow * Ellen Burnett * Henry Coupe * May DeViney * Kiffi Diamond * Bernice Faegenburg * David Fitzgerald * Tazuko Fuji * Alan Gaynor * Wally Gilbert * Kazuo Ishikawa * Kat King * Namiyo Kubo * Marco Lando * Ron Moore * Nancy Nicol * John Nieman * Stacey Clarfield Newman * Mary Tooley Parker * Srividya Kannan Ramachandran * Oi Sawa * Susan Sills * Virginia Evans Smit * Angela Smith * Robert Smith * Arlene Finger * Deborah Sudran * Toto Takamori * Bob Tomlinson * Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad * Deb Flagel * Juliette Gordon * Joshua Greenberg * John Lloyd * Barbara Hillerman Lieske * Charles Hildebrandt * Rosemary Lyons * Michael Reck * Carolina Poggi * Sarah Riley * Kathleen Shanahan * Carol Quint * Meredeth Turshen * Jenny Belin * Vernita N’Cognita * Carol Quint * Bernice Sokol Kramer * Elizabeth Ginsberg * Petronia Paley * Flora Hogman * Sunny Chapman * Gregg Biermann * Sheila Smith * Angela M. LaMonte * Jane Talcott * Marqusha Oliver * Marcia Lloyd * Ursula Clark * Marianna Winterdale * Marc S. Miller * Natasha Ozhiganova * Ayako Bando * Betty Jacobson * Tanya Levina * Carol Brookes * Sharon Wybrants * Susan Redeker * Aomi Kikuchi * Katherine Ellinger Smith * Jon Melnick * Eileen Mullan * Jasmine Spencer * Ed Herman *& others
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
Opening Reception For Ellen Burnett's Solo Exhibition At ARTIFACT: Wednesday, November 7th, 6-8 PM
“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.