Fwd: Gallery Exhibition - Beland Gallery

[Andre Leroux]

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From: Cathy McLaurin <cathyesse...@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:53 PM
Subject: Gallery Exhibition - Beland Gallery
To: Cathy Mclaurin <cathyesse...@yahoo.com>

Essex Art Center 56 Island St.,Lawrence,MA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact: Cathy McLaurin, Essex Art Center

978-685-2343

cathyesse...@yahoo.com

 

Connections

 

Exhibition dates:  January 11 – February 15, 2012

Opening reception: Friday, January 11  5-7 pm with an artist talk by Nikki Rosato at 5 pm

 

The Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery at Essex Art Center is pleased to present Connections, work in paper by Nikki Rosato.

 

Nikki Rosato creates portraits and figure studies from hand-cut maps.  Exploring physical and psychological space, her delicate paper sculptures reference memory, distance, and the human body's circulatory system.

 

In her artist statement, Nikki Rosato writes, “Our physical bodies are beautiful vessels, holding stories that haunt and shape our lives.”  In her work involving cut maps, Rosato cuts away the landmasses from silhouetted human figures, thus removing identity, leaving a delicate skin-like structure.  The figures in the “Connections” series find themselves bound by the roads that both separate them and lead them to one another.

 

Nikki Rosato’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, including in 2012, in an exhibition at The Leonardo Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah.  In 2013 her work will be featured in a solo exhibition at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, and, additionally, in “Mapping the Way” at Walford Mills Center in London.  Nikki Rosato's work was featured in the 2012 publication, “Paper Works”, which provides an international perspective of contemporary artists and designers working with the medium of paper.  Hi-Fructose New Contemporary Art Magazine published an article on her work in 2012.  She is a Masters of Fine Arts Candidate at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  Prior to studying at SMFA, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art and Art Hisotry from the University of Pittsburgh. 

 

Image credit for attached file:

Nikki Rosato, Untitled (Childhood Portrait), hand cut road map, 27 x 47", 2011.

 

For additional information about this exhibition or to receive high resolution digital images for publication, please contact Cathy McLaurin cathyessex...@yahoo.com  or  at 978-685-2343.

 

The Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery is located on the first floor of Essex Art Center at 56 Island Street, Lawrence, MA.

Gallery hours:  M-F  10-6

Call for additional evening hours 

Closed January 21

 

www.essexartcenter.com

Essex Art Center

56 Island St.

Lawrence, MA  01840

978-685-2343