Marc will be showing three works in a group Exhibition titled "Narrative Art" at the Watchung Arts Center. Opening Reception April 5, The show will run from April 3 – April 30. The Galleries and Artists Reception are open to the public free of charge. Gallery hours are Tuesday – by appointment only, Wed., Fri. & Sat. from 1 – 4 and Thurs. 1 – 5. For more information about the Watchung Arts Center, upcoming art exhibitions and our performance line-ups, please visit http://www.watchungarts.org or call 908-753-0190. The New Art Group's exhibition, curated by Jim Fuess, will be Narrative Show where narrative art work tells a story. The show will delve into thought-provoking questions such as What has happened? What is happening? What will happen? The spectator is drawn into new and unexpected worlds of mystery. A number of works in the show deal with loss and memory. Some deal with childhood and the process of living. All of the works make you think and they may also leave you a little bit puzzled. The works are in painting, drawing, photography, fabric and multiple medias.
Food and drinks will be served to attendees and will give visitors a chance to meet the artists.
The artists exhibiting will include the following:
Marc D’Agusto (Stirling) Fascinated with the facade of the corporeal as a mere pretext to substantive truth, Marc's work explores the interplay of contrasts, revealing the starkness of dark and light that are inherent in the heart of the human condition. Layering color, light, material and emotion, his work demonstrates disparities of life while illuminating hope, renewing that which is broken. Aliza Augustine (West New York) This work is from a series of large photographs called “Playing Grown Up”. Using miniature dolls and sets placed on fairy tale backdrops I created narratives drawn on personal history and socio/political commentary.
Alice Harrison (Sparta) The creative process for me is intuitive - starting with materials and/or marks that I make-with no preconceived plan. Inspiration comes from the inside, based on my personal distillation of the external world.
Frances Heinrich (Princeton) While form and craft are always valued and integral to my
work, ideas are most important to me. My work is highly conceptual and uses combined
imagery designed as catalyst for thought. Although we think and hear more defensively
than with an open mind, pictures may have greater power to startle, annoy, or shake
things up a bit. Most of my current works relate to issues of political struggle and cultural assumptions.
Kay Kenny (South Orange) This is a story about that transitional period in childhood when gender moves from a reflection of self to the “other”. It is also a reflection of that childhood, a place in time fixed in snapshots of memory: a meld of images from family albums to moments half-remembered, half-constructed.
Sarah Petruziello (South Orange) She creates large-scale graphite pencil drawings that are primarily based on self-portraiture. Though realistic in style, these drawings are more conceptual in scope with themes ranging from the personal to contemporary life and politics.
Kate Pollard (Bradley Beach) Passing: This series illustrates my family's reaction to the unexpected death of my father, Doug Pollard, who passed away on October 22, 2007. Since his death, I have chronicled myself and my family through the grieving process. The photographs are taken from what I believe to be my father’s perspective as he looks in on us.
Diane Savona (Passaic) She uses salvaged textiles to tell domestic history.
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