Events by Studio Art Centers International - SACI

BARRY NEMETT - “Language of Landscape: Works from Italy”

July 3 – 31, 2009
Artist’s Presentation: Friday, July 3 at 4pm
Reception: Friday, July 3 at 6pm

The SACI Gallery is proud to present the Language of Landscape: Works from Italy, an exhibition of works on paper by American artist Barry Nemett. Of his work, Barry says:

"Drawing - so immediate, all you need is paper, ink for your pen, and a point for your pencil - is a form of meditation and freedom for me. It keeps my hand and eye limber; teaches me to see more deeply; allows me to try out new things; be challenged and humbled; wonder visually; dig into life´s thrilling rhythms and rhymes; empathize; document exceptional, commonplace, and fleeting moments; slow down time; be ¨outside of time¨; to have an extraordinary time.

"Mine is an additive process; the images grow – which generates a kind of narrative element for me. The locations I portray may piece together dozens of panels based on half a dozen or more sites. Although I work from life, the places I draw and paint do not exist, at least not all at once. I make them up as I go. The challenge, of course, is to make the unraveled story of each landscape that I fabricate look true."

BARRY NEMETT, Chair of the Painting Department at Maryland Institute College of Art, received his BFA at Pratt Institute and his MFA at Yale University. His awards include The Hugh Fraser Foundation, Ford Foundation Grant (Italy), MICA Trustee Grant for Excellence in Teaching, Maryland State Arts Council Individual Fellowship Grant, ITT International Travel Fellowship/Fulbright Hays Grant (Spain).
Prof. Nemett, has curated numerous traveling exhibitions, and has exhibited his own work nationally and internationally, including National Academy Museum (N.Y.C.); Museum of Art, Rochefort-en-Terre (France); Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan); ISA Gallery (Italy), Andre Zarre Gallery (N.Y.C.); Atlanta College of Art; Baltimore Museum of Art; College of William & Mary University; Delaware Center of Contemporary Art; Delaware Museum of Art; Goucher College; Haverford College, ICE Gallery (N.Y.C.); Indiana University; Institute of International Education, Loyola College; New Jersey State Museum; Pratt Institute; Rochester Institute of Technology; St. John's University; University of North Carolina; University of Maryland; University of New Hampshire; University of Pennsylvania; Washington County Museum of Art; Wellesley College; Yale University, and numerous galleries throughout the U.S.

Prof. Nemett's Lectures and Visiting Artist Residencies include: Bates College; California College of the Arts; Chicago Art Institute; Delaware College of Art and Design; Haverford College; Hood College; Howard Community College; Johns Hopkins University; New York Studio School; Ontario College of Art and Design; Philadelphia Community College; Pratt Institute; Princeton University; Rhode Island School of Design; Salisbury State University; St. John's University; Swarthmore College; Towson University; University of Maryland; University of Pennsylvania; Wellesley College; Woodmere Museum of Art; Alfred and Trafford Klots Residency Program (France); Glasgow School of Art (Scotland); International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture (Italy); Keisho Art Association (Japan); Studio Art Centers International (Italy); and Summer Scholarship Program (Scotland).

His publications include: Crooked Tracks, (novel: Barnhardt & Ashe, Publishers, Inc., April, 2007); Images, Objects, and Ideas: Viewing the Visual Arts, (textbook, McGraw-Hill, 1992); articles in Arts Magazine; Museum & Arts: Washington; New Art Examiner; Washington Review; Baltimore Magazine; as well as essays for numerous exhibition catalogues.

The SACI Gallery is open Monday – Friday 9am-7pm, Saturday 1-7pm, free entrance.

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