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Alison Golder “Rust Divide: Yellow Wall”
6/2 – 28, 2012
Opening Reception:
Thursday, June 7, 6–9 pmMontclair Public Library
50 South Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, NJHOURS:
Mon: 10 am – 6 pm, Tues, Wed, and Thurs: 10 am – 8 pm, Fri: 10 am – 6 pm, Sat & Sun: 1 – 5 pm973-744-1818
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“Art: Transitions” highlights five artists who work in traditional media–painting, ink, photography, encaustic, and pastel–in very idiosyncratic ways, often combining techniques from art history with their own experimental interpretations. What unites them for curator Bonnie Maranz is the magic of seeing the work unfold in new and surprising ways in the exhibition.
“It’s 2012, and as always, the art world continues to explore and rethink its current temperature and posture,” says Maranz. “Modernism is history. Post-Modernism is becoming part of our art resource vocabulary. Today, many critics and art commentators view the visual arts in terms of an “International Trans Avant-Garde,” a way of encompassing and including past art movements, all sorts of combinations of media, as well as current technological advances. It encourages and fosters contemporary artists to create individual work in a unique and inclusive way, almost giving them “permission” to abandon the “rules” (as if artists ever really needed permission!).”
The artists featured in this exhibit are Susanna Baker, Ron Brown, Buel Ecker, Michael C. Gabrielle, and Alison Golder.
Bonnie Maranz is an exhibiting fine artist working in oil painting and drawing whose artwork over the past 30 years has focused on contemporary issues. Her work will be the subject of a one-person show next year at Kean University. Maranz is also an educator, certified as a NJ art teacher and currently teaching at the Newark Museum and serving on the Advisory Board for the Arts at Kean University. She has a B.A. in Fine Arts/Education and a M.A. in Painting.
