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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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Second Friday at the Museum of Art.
Free Second Friday at SCMA from 4-8 p.m. All ages welcome. No reservations needed
Friday, March 9:
Featuring the special exhibitions, Debussy's Paris: Art, Music, & Sounds of the City and Pursuing Beauty: The Art of Edo Japan. Also: "Hands-on!" artmaking for ages 4+ w/adult (4-6 p.m.), and "Open Eyes" guided gallery conversation about a work of art (6-6:30 p.m.).
Exhibition lecture by Laura Kalba at 7 p.m., Stoddard Auditorium. See www.smith.edu/artmuseum for more information.
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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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Palestine Awareness Week Photo Exhibition
Palestine Awareness Week, or Israeli Apartheid Week, is an annual week of solidarity with the Palestinian people observed on campuses nationwide. Surrounding this event, Smith Student Alliance for Middle East Peace/Smith Students for Justice in Palestine mounts a photo exhibition that illustrates a spectrum of experiences faced by Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Some of these photos are from a Palestinian perspective, and some of them from the perspective of non-Palestinian allies. Together, they are a collection of images both celebratory and disturbing, curated to raise awareness of Palestinian culture and the struggles it faces in the ongoing fight for self-determination.
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"Selections from Sudden Flowers"
"Selections from Sudden Flowers" will be on display in the Eli Marsh Gallery (105 Fayerweather) from Feb. 27 to March 16, 2012.
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Gottesman studied history, literature, and political science at Duke University and completed his M.A. in Fine Arts at Bard College. His first monograph, "Sudden Flowers: May the
Finest in the World Always Accompany You!," was published by Umbrage Editions in late 2011.
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Exhibition: Transforming threads of resistance: political arpilleras & textiles by women from Chile and around the world
The Student Union Art Gallery Presents
Transforming threads of resistance: political arpilleras & textiles by women from Chile and around the world
Please join us from February 27th to March 9th
Since 2008 Roberta Bacic Herzfeld has curated more than 30 international exhibitions of arpilleras. These exhibitions of her work have been a source of inspiration to women from different countries, encouraging them to epitomize, through this medium, how aspects of their personal and community lives have been affected by human rights violations. Working from where she lives in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom she creates and organizes international exhibitions of Arpilleras and quilts with political stories and influence. Roberta turned to the use of narratives found in 'apilleras', a textile art developed by Chilean women during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, to convey the processes of resistance and the search for truth while under the margins of repression. Arpilleras have greatly contributed to preserving the memory of such repressive acts and their impact on the daily lives of many women, their families and society.
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Exhibition: Eija-Liisa Ahtila: The Annunciation
February 22-May 6, 2012
The University Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present The Annunciation, a new work by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, the internationally acclaimed artist from Finland who is a pioneer in the development of multi-media art. Her work explores the potential of the film medium, weaving an intricate web of references between film and theater, painting and poetry, fiction and documentary.
Museum Hours: Beginning February 1, 2012
Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 AM-4:30 PM, Saturday/Sunday 2-5 PM
Closed Mondays and Spring Break, March 17-26
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Smith College Spring Bulb Show
A spectacular array of crocuses, hyacinths, narcissi, irises, lilies, and tulips provide an early glimpse of spring in the Lyman Conservatory. The annual Spring Bulb Show is a long-standing Smith College tradition, dating back over 100 years. Ordinarily blooming at different times, some 5,000 bulbs are coaxed into blooming simultaneously. Bulbs from South Africa add to the exotic flavor of the show. Additional information is online at:http://www.smith.edu/garden/Home/events.html
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Lecture/Reading
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Chemistry Seminar
Professor Laurie Pryde Shornick will give a talk titled "The Neonatal Innate Immune Response to Respiratory Viral Infection." Shornick's lab is working to understand the neonatal immune response to respiratory viral infection. Infants are especially vulnerable to viral infections. This is due, in part, to an immature immune system. We use a mouse model of viral infection to elucidate the cellular and molecular differences between the neonatal and adult immune response to viral infection. We are also interested in how immune factors in maternal milk may modulate the neonatal immune response.
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A conversation between Mount Holyoke College President and Amherst College President
A conversation between Mount Holyoke College
President Lynn Pasquerella and Amherst College President
Biddy Martin about writing and the public sphere followed
by presentations of recent publications in Gender Studies
by Five College faculty and FCWSRC Research
Associates.
New York Room, Mary Woolley Hall, MHC
Reception follows at the FCWSRC, 6pm
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Japan Faces the Future: Overcoming the Devastation of 3/11
Consul General Takeshi Hikihara will discuss the current situation in Japan after the Great East Japan Earthquake along the northeastern coast. He will provide details on the ongoing recovery process, discuss the current realities in the aftermath of the earthquake, and explain future prospects for the rebuilding of Japan.
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Museum Lecture with Laura Kalba
"Hearing Voices: The Soundscape and Visual Culture of Debussys Paris." Laura Kalba, guest curator for "Debussy’s Paris: Art, Music, and the Sounds of the City" and assistant professor of art history, expands on themes from the exhibition and takes us deeper into the world of nineteenth-century Paris.
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