collage:collage

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Collage:Collage.
October 30 - December 14, 2009
curated by Jackie Klempay


Please join us for the opening reception!
Friday, October 30th, 7-9 PM
(Press Preview 6-7)



Featuring: Agathe de Bailliencourt, Sandra Eula Lee, Shanna Moulton, Margit Raczkowski, Dylan Spaysky, Jennifer Sullivan, Michael Krumenacker, Melinda Yale and Carlo Vialu.
Collage: Collage showcases nine contemporary artists who freely borrow, then deviate from art history to use collage as a tool for their own ends. Bringing together a diverse array of media including video, sculpture, installation and performance, Jackie Klempay has created a curatorial collage in the gallery. Displayed together, the works in this show build layers of meaning onto one another, as each work responds to another artist's use of the medium today. She writes: "Historically, artists have been drawn to collage in times of turbulence as a way to make sense of, and to lighten the severity of surrounding chaos." The bright colors, childish forms, and slaphappy construction of works in this collection may appear to speak of hedonism and bacchanalia, but deeper themes of war, despair, alienation and loss lurk under the surface.

Collage is a unique (non)media practice, capable by definition of formally doing what no other media can. Borrowing at will from any number of sources, a collage literally builds layers of original information into a new aesthetic unit. Klempay's ambitious exhibition not only extends this idea to the gallery itself, but also brings us work as layered and rich in interpretive possibility as it is in formal approach.

Collage:Collage is a NURTUREart Emerging Curators' Program Collaboration. Learn more about all of NURTUREart's programs and opportunities for emerging artists and curators at www.nurtureart.org.

Above image:
Carlo Vialu.
My Problem Is, And Has Always Been, I Don't Give A Damn, 2007

Directions to NURTUREart Gallery and Emerging Curators' Resource Center:
L train to the Grand Street stop. From the exit walk one block east of Bushwick Avenue (past the school) on Grand Street. Look for the NURTUREart Banner at 910 Grand Street, just after the traffic light at Waterbury Street. The gallery is open Thursday through Monday from 12-6.


NURTUREart Non-Profit is a 501(c)3 registered charitable organization founded in 1997 by George J. Robinson. NURTUREart is committed to nurturing emerging artists and curators through exposure, enrichment and opportunity. It is funded in part by the Leibovitz Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Milton and Sally Avery Foundation. We appreciate their support.

NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc.
910 Grand Street Brooklyn NY 11211
718.782.7755
www.nurtureart.org

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