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Bruce Ackerson and Sally Curcio show Paintings and Bubbles at Hampshire College Art Gallery
Painter Bruce Ackerson and sculptor Sally Curcio will be exhibiting their work at Hampshire College Art Gallery in February. Ackerson and Curcio have more in common than having studios at the Arts & Industry Building in Florence, MA. Their work shares a similar panoptic perspective, whimsically and colorfully capturing entire environments that entice the viewer to enter fantastic worlds.
In Bruce Ackerson’s paintings, the visual and the narrative go hand in hand. The artist uses a consistent format of medium to large-sized square works painted in oils on panel. The paintings are distinguished by their high vantage points and richly textured surfaces. From a birds-eye view, Ackerson presents “scenes which are an imaginative take on popular culture, modern life and the hidden world of the human psyche. His beautiful, agitated brushwork adds to the tension inherent in his unusual depictions, making his work both compelling and highly appealing.” [Marla Rice, Rice/Polak Gallery].
Bruce Ackerson is represented by Rice/Polak Gallery in Provincetown, and Art 101 in Brooklyn. He received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1999, and his paintings are in collections worldwide.
The artist’s work can be viewed at his website: bruceackerson.net
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Sally Curcio’s body of work, “Bubble” uses materials such as pins, beads, false eyelashes, tennis balls, shuttlecocks, and make-up application pads to create miniature worlds rendered in 12”x12” squares enclosed under acrylic glass bubbles. The tiny worlds not only evoke fantasy, but also a kind of nostalgia for mythical or fairytale lands of childhood.
Sally Curcio’s work is represented by William Baczek Fine Arts gallery in
Western MA, and Fresh Paint Art Advisors, CA. Curcio also has work in the flat files at Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston, MA, and Morton Fine Art in Washington, DC. In 2010 Curcio received the Blanche E. Colman Grant Award, and in 2011 her work was chosen for the DUMBO Arts Festival, Broo
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A Conversation with Helen Hiebert
Nationally recognized paper and book artist Helen Hiebert of Portland, Oregon will share examples of her latest work, including String Theory, the Mother Tree Project, and her film Water Paper Time. This event is free and open to the public.
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Exhibitions
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Picturing Enlightenment: Thangka in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
This special exhibition marks the completion of an extensive project to conserve the Mead Art Museum’s collection of thangka (pronounced “tan-kah”)—scroll paintings of Buddhist figures. So fragile that they have remained largely inaccessible to scholars and museum visitors for nearly six decades, Amherst College’s eighteen thangka, primarily from Tibet, have been gently cleaned, stabilized, and repaired by conservators at Museum Textile Services in Andover, Massachusetts, under the leadership of Camille Myers Breeze. A generous grant from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and additional support from the Amherst College Department of Religion underwrote the conservation treatment. The Louis and Nettie Horch Foundation provided further support for the conservation of one thangka.
For more information, visit www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/programs/2011exhib/picturingenlightenment.
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Photo Exhibition: The Gesture in Light: Illuminated
Exhibit: The Gesture in Light: Illuminated by Theresa Antonellis runs from Monday Jan. 9 through Sunday May 11.
A reception will be held Thursday, February 2, from 4-6pm.
The exhibit consists of a related series of framed prints featuring photo-enhanced light photography by Theresa Antonellis.
Info: 577-0785, mcharney@library.umass.edu
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Charles Dickens at 200
An exhibition of books by Charles Dickens from the Mortimer Rare Book Room, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Dickens birth in February 2012. The exhibition is in the Book Arts Gallery (Neilson, 3rd floor). See http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/ for library open hours, direction and other general information.
The exhibition runs from January 15 through April 15, 2012
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Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley
Exhibition is on view from January 15 through April 15, 2012.
"Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley" features decorated paste papers by 19 bookbinders, most of whom live and work in the vicinity of Northampton. The exhibition marks the publication of "Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley" in late fall 2011, and also showcases bookbindings which incorporate paste papers. All items on display are from the Mortimer Rare Book Room.
The exhibition is in the Neilson Library, 3rd floor. See http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/ for library open hours, direction and other general information.
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Exhibition- David Teeple: Dialogue with a Collection Thinking Water: Poetry, Systems and Politics
Exhibition runs February 1st--March 16, 2012.
February 1st, 5-7 PM Opening Reception and In Conversation, with David Teeple
This exhibition features work by David Teeple alongside works he has chosen from the museum's works-on-paper collection, which features over 2600 contemporary prints, drawings, and photographs. Teeple's work will reference rivers, aquifers, and the hydrologic cycle, in context to systems of economy, society, nature and science.
This event is sponsored by the Farrell Family Foundation, Artist Organized Art, Pygmalion Elements & Sculpture, and Pivot Media. It is free and open to the public.
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Sculpture Exhibition by Christopher M. Lavery: One Truth & One Story
Exhibition runs February 6th through February 23rd.
One Truth & One Story is an installation of site sensitive sculpture. Ordinary materials are transformed into the extraordinary through unexpected applications and juxtaposition. Professor Lavery's method of responding to the site and to the culture, in which the work is constructed and installed, brings a uniquely philosophical, imaginative and whimsical vision to the Student Union Art Gallery and to the greater UMass campus.
Professor Lavery's artwork has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and resides in prestigious permanent private and public collections. The Denver International Airport hosts Cloudscape which was recognized by the Public Art Network as one of the top sculptures installed in 2010. His work has won awards and has been reviewed by numerous art critics, and may be previewed here: http://www.christopherlavery.com.
Gallery open Mondays through Thursdays, 10 am. to 5 pm & Fridays, 10 am. to 3 pm.
Made possible by the UMass Arts Council, the GSS, the SGA, and an ECSA (Engage, Connect, Serve, Achieve) Grant, which is funded by the CSD and the Division of Student Affairs & Campus Life.
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Shaping Plants: Fruits, Shoots, and Roots Collaborations With Nature by Dan Ladd
Artist Dan Ladd has long been fascinated with the adaptability of plants. His work grafting trees into whimsical structures and molding gourds and roots into sculptures reflects both a fascination with and respect for the plants. In his words, "The reciprocity in working with nature, influencing the direction and future of growth, is unique. There is definite give and take and reaction and response." He hopes that, through his work, others will be able to share his wonder and excitement at this way in which we can interact with our natural surroundings. Information is online at: http://www.smith.edu/garden/Home/events.html
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Lecture/Reading
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"Natural History in the New World: The Case of the Bezoar Stone"
Luis Millones, Charles A. Dana Associate Professor of Spanish at Colby College, will speak. This lecture will be given in English and is sponsored by the Amherst College Department of Spanish. The event is free and open to the public.
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Lecture by Tomoaki Ishigaki
Japan's Multilateral Diplomacy after 3/11: A View from the United Nations, lecture by Tomoaki Ishigaki, Counsellor at the Japanese Permanent Mission of the United Nations. Sponsored by the Smith College Program in East Asian Studies and the Department of Government.
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Bad Little Black Girls: African American Women, Crime and Prisons
Today, African American females comprise ten percent of the United States' total population, but they represent almost fifty percent of the country's incarcerated women. This high incarceration rate reflects the culmination of a historical trend in black women's disproportionate arrests, convictions and confinement in the U.S. penal system, itself a lynchpin of institutional racism, classism, and sexism. In an attempt to support reformists' and prison abolitionists' efforts to stem this crisis in African American women’s lives, Professor Francis will briefly historicize the race and gender ideologies driving perceptions of criminality, law enforcement and penal practices. The remainder of her presentation will examine imprisoned African American women's experiences in the present day, including the centrality of poverty and sexual terror to the carceral system, and the system's impact on mothers and their children. Speaker: Leigh-Anne Francis, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Rutgers University
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Curt Ellis Lecture
Filmmaker Curt Ellis will present a talk, “Growing Forward: A New Vision for Food and Farming,” at Hampshire College on Monday, February 20, at 7:30 pm. The event will be held in Franklin Patterson Hall in the Main Lecture Hall, and is free and open to the public.
Ellis is a leading voice in America’s food movement. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of FoodCorps, a nonprofit organization that works to recruit and organize young people for a year of public service improving school food. He is also a filmmaker; he co-produced and starred in the 2007 documentary, King Corn, which chronicled the journey of an acre of corn as it went from a crop to food product.
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Poetry Reading
The poet Major Jackson will read from his work.
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