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ART SCHOOLED By Larry Witham
In this fascinating chronicle Larry Witham takes readers inside the history, culture, economics, teaching, technique, and competition of one of the oldest and most prestigious art colleges in the country, the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. With rare, privileged access to the personal and professional lives of students, faculty, administrators, and visiting artists, he shows us how young artists develop their talent and vision, learn the ins and outs of the art world, and come to proudly define themselves as artists, even as theory and technology conspire to declare that art as we once knew it is utterly changed.
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BARRY NEMETT: PAINTINGS, POEMS & PASSAGES
Whether he is drawing an old man waiting for his wife or a boxer waiting between rounds; creating a six-inch painting or a sixty-foot assemblage; welding a metal abstraction; carving stone; constructing a room-size installation; or writing a poem . . . the foundation of Barry Nemett's work has always been built upon rhythm. The rhythm of life. There is a focus on the rhythms built into every work Barry Nemett produces, just as there is a rhythm that flows from one of his works to another and between the various directions that his art has taken over the years. Likewise, in his representational images, there is an integrated rhythm of exchange between reality and imagination, between what the artist directly observes and what he invents. In addition to essays, poems, and brief commentaries by well known painters, poets, and critics, many of the 600+ full-color reproductions in this text are accompanied by the artist's poems and written reflections. The book also includes excerpts from his recently published novel, "Crooked Tracks" and from his textbook, "Images, Objects & Ideas." Designed to accompany a traveling exhibition of Nemett's work, this comprehensive survey weaves together the people, places, objects, and stories of animate and inanimate subjects that he has been portraying through words and pictures for the past forty years in his attempt to visualize life's unlikely rhythms and inevitable rhymes.
Barry Nemett has exhibited his paintings in museums and galleries throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. Since receiving a Fulbright/ITT International Travel Fellowship to Spain, he has lectured worldwide, curated numerous traveling exhibitions, and has been a recipient of resident artist grants in the U.S., Japan, Korea, Scotland, Italy, and France. Upon receiving his MFA degree from Yale University, Mr. Nemett began teaching at Maryland Institute College of Art, where he has been Chair of the Painting Department since 1992.
2001878
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CROOKED TRACKS Barry Nemett
Time and places shift and collide. Scenes are set in Renaissance Italy and Hackensack, New Jersey. Through the eyes of Stephen, the main character, we see beyond historical moments and conventional minutes to focus on how we experience time in grief and joy. This heartbreaking, yet surprisingly upbeat, life-affirming story explores the influence of friends and family, the gentle force of romance, the challenge of redemption, and ultimately, the wonder of how a life can seemingly fall apart and come together at once, as it follows the crooked tracks of a youthful journey.
2001856
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DEPARTURES AND RETURNS - SANDRA BROWNLEE
Nova Scotia native Sandra Brownlee, who has been exhibiting her textile work since 1985 and teaching art and weaving classes for just as long, has kept notebooks to record details of her life since childhood. In her textile journals, Brownlee records her observations not only in ink, but also in thread, sometimes sewing words into the fabric of her journal rather than writing them. In Departures and Returns, the physical counterpart to the artist’s 2009 exhibition of the same name, Brownlee says, ”There is both discipline and liberation in the commitment to document on a regular basis a moment, experience, thought or feeling.”
Departures and Returns is Brownlee’s first exhibition since beginning her nine year weaving hiatus in 1996. In the time spent away from weaving, Brownlee taught art to elementary school girls at Agnes Irwin School just outside of Philadelphia, but she still kept up with her journals. “Needing a creative outlet, I used by notebooks as a mobile studio. Working with the children in materials like clay, fingerpaints, cut paper and fabric, on a scale from the minute to the grandiose, liberated my notebook practice,” said Brownlee when she reviewed her notebooks from this time period in preparation for her exhibition in the Mary E. Black Gallery at the Novia Scotia Centre for Craft and Design.
In keeping with the tradition of handmade notebooks, the Departures and Returns exhibit book has a hand sewn binding and contains pages of handwriting reprinted. “Our goal was to provide the experience of something found, familiar, dog-eared, conveying the mark of the hand, yet new — a synopsis, a revelation. We consider the catalogue to be another object in the exhibition,” says designer Sarah Bodine of Sans Serif Studio in New Jersey.
Departures and Returns was printed by Digital Arts Imaging on Mohawk Via, Felt and Mohawk Options, Smooth. Of the choice to use Mohawk papers, Bodine says, “We found that Mohawk Via Felt simulated the tactility of a heavyweight page from an artist’s sketchbook. With its bright white surface, Via can produce an image with such clarity that it becomes almost tangible. Viewers are constantly trying to pick the embroidered bird off of the second page.”
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