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Mass moca museum4/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He has exhibited widely and his work can be found in numerous important collections, including the Museum Wiesbaden, Germany PEAC Museum, Germany The Albright Knox Art Gallery, USA Colby College Museum of Art, USA the Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA and the celebrated Panza Collection where his paintings form a site-specific installation in one of the gilded and paneled rooms of the C17th Palazzo Ducale in Sassuolo, Italy. He strives to find color saturations that turn the pigments into the light. Making use of a brush, he applies layer upon layer of pure pigments mixed with water and polyurethane dispersion to slowly and extensively explore the surface. Following years of research exploring light and color on material surfaces, he has developed the core of his technique. The phenomenology of color, light, and space represent central issues in his painting practice. Winston Roeth splits his time between Maine and Beacon, NY. She maintains a studio in the Hudson Valley of New York. Her work is included in public collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery, among others. Mimlitsch-Gray is a contributing essayist to the exhibition catalogue, This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, published by the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. Other recent exhibitions include: Crafting America, at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, and EXACTLY: precision and process, at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson NY. Mimlitsch-Gray’s work is widely exhibited and is on view in Parall(elles): A History of Women in Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Prima Materia: the Periodic Table in Contemporary Art, at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Artist Residencies include: The Banff Centre, Alberta Haystack Open Studios Konstfack University, Stockholm The MacDowell Colony and the Arts/Industry Residency in Foundry at the Kohler Co., through the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Mimlitsch-Gray has been awarded individual artist fellowships by the United States Artists Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. As professor she received two Chancellor’s Awards from the State University of New York: Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, and Excellence in Teaching. ![]() An American Craft Council Fellow, she was recently named Master of the Medium by the James Renwick Alliance. Mimlitsch-Gray received her MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Facture is explored as an idea and then realized as an image this research is reflected in the objects she generates. She conceptualizes material conditions to construct fictions and portraits. 1962) explores craft as subject and object, engaging the field’s history and methods to interpret utility and form. Berwick’s exploration of structural color has expanded to include Gold Ruby Red, the Ruby Throated Hummingbird, and the stories hummingbirds carry with them through time and space. Her installation, “ Zugunruhe” was exhibited at Brown University and The Smithsonian American Art Museum.įor over twenty years, she has developed and maintained a work titled “ may-por-é,” in which live parrots she trained to speak, Maypuré, an extinct indigenous South American language, live in a sculptural aviary, exhibited at venues such as The Serpentine Gallery, London, the 7th International Istanbul Bienal, and the 26th Bienal de São Paolo.īerwick received a Robert Rauschenberg Residency, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, and a Smithsonian Artists’ Research Fellowship where she first began working on bird migration and structural color in the project titled, “ Blue,” a series of sculptural works that she continues to develop today. She has had five solo exhibitions in New York-“ Lonesome George,” at Sikkema Jenkins in NYC was also included in “Becoming Animal” at Mass MoCA. Rachel Berwick’s multi-media installations examine the threshold between nature and culture as a means of exploring themes of extinction and loss, and our inevitable desire to recover what is lost.
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