Opening Reception:

Friday, April 24, 2009

Gallery Hours:

Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Curated by:

John Hagan

Artists:

Nathan Blankenship, Rebecca L. Broughton, Julia Colavita, Colleen Cunningham, Nick Dyball, John J. Hagan, Matthew Kenny, Miles Kerr, Dana Markus, Juan Carlos Pinto, Gabriel Stuart, Thomas Witte

Information:

Call 212.213.8052

On April 24, the New York Center for Art & Media Studies will open its Spring Salon exhibition featuring a fierce group of Brooklyn-based artists. Show curator John Hagan was selected by postbaccalaureate fellow Nathan Blankenship to curate a salon style exhibition of his peers. This expansive and feverishly dynamic show will display the raw talents of several early and mid-career artists with a concentration on the transitional phases of seasonal flux and rebirth.

The natural, as well as artificial, human responses to the ushering in of spring from winter are oftentimes subtle, predictable, and quietly manifested. Using a wide breadth of disciplines including painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture, video, and assemblage, the artists cunningly dissect the most basic of human habits on display during seasonal swings. Several of the artists focus on these effects within the metropolitan environment and deal with the passage of time and the connection between lived experience, memory, and learned behavior.

The New York Center for Art & Media Studies, a program of Bethel University (St. Paul, Minn.), provides an academically challenging and structured environment where young artists will both encounter contemporary trends in the visual arts and learn how to engage the culture with their faith and creativity.