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Manifest Creative Research Gallery: 5th Annual NUDE | SELECTIONS From the 8th International Drawing Annual | John Westmark - 16 Aug 2013 to 13 Sept 2013 Current Exhibition |
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Daniel Dallmann "Giuditta" (NUDE 5)
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5th annual NUDE An International Exhibit of Works Exploring the Uncovered Human Form Main Gallery Opening Friday, August 16, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: August 17 - September 13, 2013 This, along with the two concurrent exhibits, mark the final presentation of Manifest's 9th season! Season 10 details are forthcoming. Manifest exhibits many kinds of works, from more conceptual and experimental art to the traditional. In fact we think it's important to have such a range in our repertoire. It is something that Manifest is known for. Our annual projects allow us to track how artists around the world address a theme, subject, or media over time, or allow us to document the state of art in a particular strata of professional activity and to study and preserve our findings in a meaningful way through our exhibit catalogs and website. NUDE is one such project. The human body is a popular subject for many reasons, the most obvious being that it is us. Throughout history the representation of the human form has been charged with tremendous energy. Through all the permutations art has experienced across history, work of the body persists. We use the human nude to master skill, understand ourselves, and push social and psychological buttons for the sake of expression. We intend for Manifest's annual NUDE project to explore how our collective body is used in art today to achieve these goals and more. Read the curatorial statement for the first annual Nude, when the project was launched in 2009, here. For this exhibit 216 artists from 37 states and 13 countries submitted 538 works for consideration. Thirteen works by the following 12 artists from 6 states and the countries of Canada, France, and Israel were selected for presentation in the gallery and catalog. Brandon Briggs Bowling Green, Ohio Daniel Dallmann Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Matthew Davey Indianapolis, Indiana Helene Delmaire Lille, France Mathieu Dubé Gatineau, Quebec, Canada Junsoo Kim San Francisco, California Eve Mansdorf Bloomington, Indiana Jenny Neria Markel Netanya, Israel Gary Mitchell Dayton, Ohio Nick Reszetar Milan, Michigan Debra Small Sacramento, California Jon Sours Asheville, North Carolina SELECTIONS From the 8th International Drawing Annual Publication Curated by Tim Parsley Drawing Room Opening Friday, August 16, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: August 17 - September 13, 2013 Selections from the International Drawing Annual is the eighth annual presentation of this exhibit, featuring a sampling of artworks and artists to be included in the forthcoming International Drawing Annual 8 exhibit-in-print publication. The award-winning International Drawing Annual publication project was launched in 2005 as an extension of Manifest's Drawing Center mission to promote, feature, and explore drawing as a rich and culturally significant art form. The goal of the INDA is to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, current, and relevant works of drawing from around the world. More info. about this ongoing project can be found here. All works included in each annual are made within three years leading up to its publication. Soft and hardcover versions of the INDA 8 book will be available by early 2014. Previous volumes remain available at such places as Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Suder's, The Weston Gallery, Amazon.com, and at Manifest Gallery and the Manifest website. The books serve as a valuable reflection on the diversity and vitality of drawing active in the world. They are used by artists, collectors, other galleries, fans of art, students, and even teachers in the classroom for reference about drawing, and to connect to the practice of drawing through a very open and considerate survey of the art form. Finalists for the publication itself are listed here. This small exhibit was hand-picked by Tim Parsley, Manifest's Associate Curator, from among the works juried into the publication project which were also available for exhibition in the gallery. Parsley selected nine works by the following seven artists for exhibition. This was Tim's final project as a Manifest staffer. He begins his new career in academia this month! (We expect to continue collaborations with Tim from afar from time to time.) Matt Hamon Potomac, Montana Amy Herzel Keller, Texas Dale Inglett Alfred, New York Taylor Mazer Grand Rapids, Michigan Nina Pascal Floral Park, New York Paul Loehle West Chester, Ohio Melissa Wilkinson Bono, Arkansas The Superstructure Series Recent Works by John Westmark Parallel Space Opening Friday, August 16, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: August 17 - September 13, 2013 This solo exhibition of John Westmark's paintings is one of six selected from among 150 proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest's ninth season. Manifest is proud to showcase this new body of work by the award-winning artist as its final solo presentation of the season. Of his work Westmark states: Since the early 60’s, the idea of mobile cities – whether flying, floating, rolling, walking or otherwise – have been proposed by both architects and science fiction authors as either a solution to the challenges faced by the static city of today, or as the ultimate survival vehicle of the future. Whichever the case, this work asks you to suspend for a moment all practicality and consider a city untethered to terra firma, capable of moving on its own, dodging catastrophe or hunting new resources. Suppose for a moment that Sendai City could have rolled to higher ground before the tsunamis reached the coast. What if Staten Island could have simply gotten up and walked out of Superstorm Sandy’s path? Ultimately, after each catastrophic event, against the standard orthodoxy of rebuilding, is the fleeting revelation of an outlandish mutation. John Westmark’s work has been exhibited widely and is held in collections worldwide. In 2011, he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner grant and was selected as a finalist for the Arte Laguna painting prize and exhibition, Venice, Italy. In 2012, John was awarded The Gibbes Museum of Art Factor Prize for Southern Art. (Charleston, SC) The Factor Prize acknowledges an artist whose work demonstrates the highest level of artistic achievement in any media while contributing to a new understanding of art in the South. John’s work was selected to appear in Art Takes Miami (2012 edition), a limited edition publication distributed to galleries, art critics, collectors, and journalists. His work has also been featured in New American Paintings, American Art Collector, and Studio Visit Magazine. Westmark received an MFA from the University of Florida and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. He currently lives and works in Gainesville, Florida. See and learn more about John Westmark at: www.johnwestmark.com |
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