Motion-Emotion: A Juried Exhibition at Hosmer Gallery
October
2-30th, 2015
Forbes
Library, 20 West Street, Northampton, MA
Hosmer Gallery Hours: Mon/Wed 9am to
9pm, Tue/Thu 1pm to 5 p.m., Fri/Sat 9am to 5pm
The
Northampton Arts Council will host a reception for their 2015 Juried Biennial
Exhibition entitled Motion-Emotion.
The reception will take place in conjunction with Arts Night Out at Hosmer
Gallery-Forbes Library on Friday, October 9th, 5pm to 8pm. The event is free
and open to the public.
Motion-Emotion is a juried
exhibition of work interpreted freely by 2D, 3D, and video. The exhibition is
of works by artists living and working in Western Massachusetts and is located
at the Hosmer Gallery in Forbes Library during the month of October 2015. Motion-Emotion presents a wide variety
of types and styles of art from photography and paintings to cinematography and
sculpture, all of which revolve around the central theme of a quote by William
Faulkner: “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by
artificial means and hold it fixed so that 100 years later, when a stranger
looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” The exhibition showcases the
work of 32 different local artists that were selected from a group of more than
124 artists who submitted over 279 works of art for consideration. Please join
the Northampton Arts Council Board of Directors and meet all the artists
at the Arts Night Out reception on Friday, October 9th from 5:00
p.m. to 8:00 p.m at the Hosmer Gallery.
The
jurors selected for the show were Aprile Gallant, Curator of Prints, Drawings
and Photographs at Smith College Museum of Art; Paul Gulla, Gallery Manager, R.
Michelson Galleries, and Julia Courtney, Curator of Art, D’Amour Museum of Fine
Arts. To help guide their selections the jurors prepared a statement: “As a
jury, we looked for a diversity of media where a sense of motion or stasis was
a central component in the underlying structure or the message of the
work. We were pleased to find so many
approaches, all of which communicated a strong visual sense of the various
psychological states that animate daily human experience. The exhibition and
accompanying programs provide a rich sampling of the artistic community in the
Pioneer Valley.”
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| Image by Petula Bloomfield |
