Amy Becker, Carny Series: Four on a Bench
SMI’s 15th Annual Exhibition
Panel Discussion:
Thursday, April 12, 12:30-2pmWilliam Paterson University Galleries
in the Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts
300 Pompton Road, Wayne, NJ 07470
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 10am – 5pm or by appt. 973-744-1818
studiomontclair@aol.com
SMI will sponsor a panel discussion with exhibition juror Alexandra Schwartz, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Montclair Art Museum, and William Paterson University Professor David Shapiro, who will discuss the imagery, ideas, and techniques explored in the exhibition. Both the reception and panel discussion are open to the public.
The exhibit features the work of 43 artists from around the country who have used an array of media and techniques to offer diverse perspectives on contemporary life. “The exhibition offers a slice of what contemporary artists around the country are finding most compelling in their worlds, and in so doing, offers a representative sampling of larger preoccupations in contemporary art,” said Schwartz.
Schwartz is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Montclair Art Museum (info mentioned earlier), where she is organizing a series of solo exhibitions of contemporary artists, beginning with Marina Zurkow: Friends, Enemies and Others and a major traveling exhibition, New Order: Art and Politics in the 1990s (Fall 2013). She was previously the coordinator of The Museum of Modern Art’s Modern Women’s Project and curator of Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions.
The artists featured in this exhibit are:
Liz Adams-Jones, Peter Aldrich, Laura Atria, Michal Barkai, Douglas Barrett, Amy Becker, Sarah Becktel, Beth Blake, Tressa Croce Breton, Ron Brown, Jeanne V. Campbell, Robert Cullinane, Tracy Deer, Matthew Feuer, Dail Fried, George Garbeck, Robin Gibson, Alison Golder, Joan Goldsmith, Victoria Goro-Rapoport, Beth Gouldin, Jeanne Heifetz, Patricia Horing, Reneé Lachman, JC Lenochan, Yvette Lucas, So Yoon Lym, Dave Magyar, Paho Mann, Betty McGeehan, Leslie Milton, Rita Noe, Christopher J. Piccinich, Gail Postal, Claudia Samper, Sylvia Schwartz, Merrill Steiger, D.B. Stovall, Michael Teters, Peter Tilgner, Andrew Verhoeckx, Jenny Wiener, and David Witten.