Painting by Nancy Nicol in Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Silent Auction

"Two Herring Gulls," oil on panel for the 12x12 exhibit and silent auction at PAAM, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, one of 307 entries. Bids start at $125.00

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Press Release: “Real Concerns/Imaginary Perceptions”

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                                              “Real Concerns/Imaginary Perceptions”
                                                          Viridian Affiliates
                                                   July 17 - August 11, 2018
                                          Opening Reception: Thursday, July 19, 6-8PM
                                          Closing Reception: Saturday, August 11, 4-6PM

 Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad* Deb Flagel * Charles Hildebrandt * Barbara Hillerman * Jenny Belin *
Matthias Merdan * Vernita N’Cognita * Carolina Poggi * Kathleen Shanahan

Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present an exhibition of outstanding art by nine artists who are part of Viridian Artists' Affiliate program. The “Real Concerns/Imaginary Perceptions in these artists' creations are not immediately apparent, but each has a personal vision that that often supersedes their imagery and in these times of complex real events.  Their meanings & motives reveal themselves and it is then that we understand move clearly their “Real Concerns/Imaginary Perceptions”. The show extends from July 17th to August 11th with receptions to meet the artists Thursday July 19th, 6-8pm & Saturday, August 11, 6-8PM.

 Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad’s latest series reflects her abiding desire to use traditional techniques and mediums such as encaustic, raw pigments and metal leaf to create contemporary images which reflect very modern concerns. Her work focuses on the contradictions between what things appear to be and what they actually are, especially at this time of fake reality and alternative facts. Based in Montreal, Canada, Ackad is increasingly showing her works in the United States. Most recently, at the Alexandria Museum in Louisiana, at the American Swedish Institute and the Hopkins Center for the Arts in Minneapolis where she was awarded 4th place in the pastel category in the 23rd Arts in the Harmony International juried exhibit.

Deb Flagel’s "All That Is", a mixed media assemblage, like much of her art, is about the accumulation of momentary glances. As she records the environmental landscape that surrounds us, her mind pieces together line, color and shape, constructing an emotional response. The artist says “signs and symbols become metaphorical.  Emotion and experience become tightly stitched. Senses heighten.  Clarity of intention unfolds. The energy of truth moves closer”. Originally conceived a decade ago, this work speaks clearly about the dangers lurking in our reality today.

When viewers look at the paintings of Charles Hildebrandt, they may see a landscape that they recognize somewhere in their own mind; perhaps a familiar place or an aspect of a past experience. For this artist, many childhood and adult memories are the roots of the conception of the images, with perhaps the wish of holding onto the past. In these paintings too, we are helped to realize that the places and individuals we cherish, undergo constant transformation as do we.

Barbara Hillerman sees reality through the lens of design and visual structure as much as through reality’s multitude of meanings. The elements of design play a dominant role in her images for her journey as an artist was initially begun via graphic design. The artist’s intent when she photographs is to ask the viewer to "read" her images from the visual clues she supplies, but then to come to their own conclusions. 

Vernita N’Cognita has been working for decades with materials that are valueless trash, first junkmail and more recently, plastic packaging. An outstanding attention-getter is her “Endless Junkmail Scroll”,an ongoing work which is now over 400 feet long. The artist is constantly searching for new ways to present the work, offering it for just $10 a linear inch to be torn away from the whole & presented separately as a constant reminder that all that we discard is adding to the ongoing pollution of our environment.  In the fall, she will be having a solo exhibit of the Scroll and related works at Farleigh Dickinson University and last February it filled 3 galleries at the Crary Gallery in Warren PA.

Matthias Merdan is a Swiss artist whose work is also embedded in the re-use and recycling of the discarded. He enjoys exploring materials, forms and concepts, always surprising viewers with works often potent with their messages.

Jenny Belin’s recent work is inspired by the studies of flowers, cats and dogs that she has drawn in her sketchbooks. 

Carolina Poggi worked with Fatima Quaglia and Julio Bernal graduated from the National Dance Academy of Uruguay, to create this photographic essay “The prison of freedom” at the Contemporary Art Museum which was formerly a female penitentiary. This environment was a key element of inspiration to contrast artist’s freedom in a space which topically represents repression.

 Poggi studied at the Cinema School of Uruguay specializing in still photography and has long been fascinated with photographing dancers in performance and in rehearsal. She is drawn to the concept of the photo-essay and has set up her own black and white lab working on several essays ranging from architecture to nature and especially, dancers. Her work has been displayed in Uruguay and abroad both in solo and group shows. In the past, she worked as a dance photographer shooting trainee dancers at the National School of Dance of Uruguay.

Kathleen Shanahan’s mixed media works owe much to print making studio practices and the processes of layering and sequentially developing unique effects. The artist creates her “pastiched” imagery through collage and the juxtaposition of diverse elements. Here, her piece, entitled “Real Concerns”, is embedded in fantasy that choreographs our imagination as she manipulates it.

Viridian's Affiliate program is one of the many ways in which our gallery continues its mission of supporting the art of outstanding "underknown" artists.

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12- 6 PM

For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director

VA Summer Intern

We are thrilled with our summer intern, Marqusha Oliver from SE
Missouri University.

Gallery Director Vernita Nemec Juries the "Wordplay" exhibit at Woman Made Gallery, in Chicago

WORDPLAY
July 6 – July 28, 2018 | Opening Reception: Friday, July 6 | 6–8 p.m.

Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport #4A-3
Chicago, IL 60608
(312)-738-0400

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CHICAGO —Woman Made Gallery (WMG) is proud to present the exhibition ‘Wordplay,’ an exploration of how artists intertwine text and image to deliver message and effect change.  From handwriting to video, poetic thought to political activism, this group of artists incorporate letters, numbers and symbols to give meaning to their art.

Exhibiting Artists:

Angela Amias; Marjorie Arnett; Rebecca Baruc; Emily Beck; Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura; Ruth Burke; Megan Cherry; Maryangel Garcia; Fran Gardner; Kyra Garrique; Nina Ghanbarzadeh; Naomi Hart; Maxine Hess; Leslie Hirshfield; Brooke Jana; Mary Sue Kern; Rachel Kice; Maria Kompare; Tracy Kostenbader; Dorothy Krause; Katherine Krcmarik; Carole Kunstadt; Angela LaMonte; Cynthia Lee; Minjoo Lee; Gayla Lemke; Marcy Lichterman; Jackie Lima; Ara-Lucia; Rosemary Lyons; Megan Mattax; Jenna McDanold; Mary McFerran; Pamela Penney; Cynthia Petry; Nichole Riley; Emanuelle Schaer; K. Elizabeth Sekararum; Jenny Stopher; Harriette Tsosie; and Jessica Wagner.

About the Juror: Vernita Nemec

Vernita N’Cognita aka Vernita Nemec is a visual/ performance artist/ curator who has exhibited her art throughout the world.

Her artwork ranges across a variety of disciplines, from creating installations, m/m collages and tangible art objects such as the “Endless Junkmail Scroll to the creation of performance art that conceptually investigates theatre and its edges – using language, space, and time, silence and stillness as well as movement and voice as an instrument of self-expression.

In the 90’s she served for a decade as the Director of Artists Talk On Art interviewing art world luminaries such as Irving Sandler, Rob Storr, Jerry Saltz, Nancy Spero, Peter Plagens and Robert Rosenblum. She was an independent curator at Henry Street Settlement for the Arts and currently, is the director of Viridian Artists, art gallery in Chelsea, NYC.

In 1995, she assumed the name VERNITA N’COGNITA in homage to under-recognized artists. In addition to her ongoing artistic output, she has curated and organized important exhibitions of art from recycled materials (“Art from Detritus: Recycling with Imagination”) throughout the U.S., for which she received a Kauffman Foundation Fellowship and a grant from the Puffin Foundation.

Nemec AKA N’Cognita has presented her art in a variety of venues: galleries, universities and experimental spaces in the US, Mexico City, Darmstadt & Frankfurt in Germany; Dublin, Ireland and Tokyo, Japan. She has received funding for her performance art from the Jerome Fnd and the NEA and in 2010 and 2015 was invited by Movement Research to perform at Judson Church where performance art came alive in the 60’s.

Ellen Burnett Open Studio

Things that have potential beyond their initial existence; 
they speak to me.

- Open Studio Evening -

Come see the artist in her natural habitat!

Thursday, July 12, 6 - 8pm, 34 Liberty Place, Weehawken, NJ

All Our Yesterdays, 29"w x 25"h x 3.5"d. Mixed Media including various woods, metals, glass, feathers, paper, orange peel, fabric, ceramic, pine needles, bone, bronze spill.

www.ellenburnett.com

Nancy Nicol at Burdick Gallery in Wellfleet, Mass.

Opening reception with oil paintings featuring ponds and waterscapes and sea life. Address 25 Bank Street, this family-owned gallery is a secluded gem with a Japanese style garden and fountain. Feel free to enjoy the garden with refreshments and meet the represented artists.

Work by Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad will be on exhibition at the Alexandria Museum of Art

Viridian Affiliate, Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad’s painting ”Butterfly etc...was selected by the juror, William U. Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia for the international exhibition at the Alexandria Museum of Art Juried Exhibition.     

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This same work, “Butterfly etc” was awarded the Merit Prize in 2017 at the ISEA  ( International Symposium of Experimental Art)  International Exhibition by juror, Jade Dellinger, Director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery in Southeast Florida .

A Review of Viridian Artist Henry Coupe's Work Featured in the Utica Observer Dispatch

"Utica native and prodigious artist Henry Coupe passed away three years ago, but his work lives on. "

by Joseph Labernik

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Press Release: “Deciduous Dragons” Recent work by Kathleen King

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“Deciduous Dragons”
Recent work by Kathleen King
May 22-June 16, 2018
Reception: Thursday, May 24, 6-8PM

Viridian Artists is pleased to present “Deciduous Dragons” recent work by Kathleen King on exhibit from May 22nd thru June 16th. The reception is on Thursday May 24th from 6pm to 8pm.

Fantastic and exotic representational subjects sourced from objects found in nature such as dried plant detritus, (leaves, pods, twigs, etc…) are ruminated over, then transformed into bronzes and paintings in this most recent solo exhibit of Kat’s work.

King states: “Elevating the humblest of discarded botanical fragments to iconic status for the viewer’s contemplation is an ongoing concept in my drawings, paintings and sculptures. I reconfigure the botanical/detritus fragments into small 3D models.  Contemplating these models, I transform them into metaphorical subjects in the final art works.”

Artist/Educator Kathleen King is currently represented by Viridian Artists, INC and has been represented by the gallery since 2001.

Ms. King has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as an Assistant Adjunct Prof. from 1989 to 2001 in the SAIC Print Media Dept. The artist has also taught at Loyola University, Chicago from 1977 to 2009 as an Adjunct Prof.

In the near future, Ms. King will be teaching drawing and watercolor courses as a Visiting Adjunct Prof. in the Korea University 2018 International Summer Campus Program. The artist has been invited to teach in the KU ISC Program almost every summer since 2007.

Ms. King is also currently on the board of the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, located on the Greek island of Skopelos in the Aegean Sea. Besides serving on the board, Kathleen has taught courses and workshops at the foundation’s print shop.

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12- 6 PM

For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director 

Superfine! Art Fair Reviewed in New York Magazine

Click here for a link to the complete article which includes a photograph of work by Viridian Artist Mary Tooley Parker.

 MAY 2, 2018 6:09 PM
An Art Fair Where the Pieces Come to Life
By Melania Hidalgo

Have you ever been to an art fair where the sculptures come to life, and human models are used as canvases? The second annual Superfine! Art fair opens today in New York’s Meatpacking District, once again blurring the line between performance and immersion. The week-long exhibit will feature a variety of art shows, summits, markets, and tastings. On Wednesday night, renowned body-painter Trina Merry will stage live re-creations of her “Lust of Currency”series, in which she paints over her models to blend in with historically iconic works of art like Edvard Munch’s The Scream, or van Gogh’s Self Portrait, as a take on society’s materialist culture.

Following Merry’s show, members of the Heidi Latsky Dance troupe will act as living effigies, embodying a moving sculpture court that silently merges with the evening spectators.

Founded in 2015 by entrepreneur Alex Mitow, the fair aims to promote high-quality affordable artwork to ordinary city dwellers and aficionados, providing a platform to both experience and purchase local and internationally sourced pieces. The fair will exhibit 78 art galleries, solo projects, and collectives, with certain live ticketed events throughout the week.

This year, the program has placed a strong emphasis on spotlighting young female talent and progressive politics: 70 percent of the showcased artists are women, with a base reflecting people of color and the LGBTQ community. Following the XX Perspective Female Arts Summit featuring curators and art directors, the fair reserved its popular Saturday-night slot for the “Girls’ Night Out (for Art!)” cocktail party and live music performances, the proceeds of which will go to the evening’s host, the Lower Eastside Girls Club.

Beginning as a small project in Miami, Superfine! has now become a national interactive exposition with full-scale installments in New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and Mexico City.

Superfine! opens Wednesday, May 2, at 9 p.m. and will run through Sunday at 8 p.m. Tickets are available here starting at $12 for general admission, and up to $85 for the Art Warrior All-Access pass. Scroll below for a selection of images from this year’s installation.

 Saxon Woods Pool, by Mary Tooley Parker. Photo: Mary Tooley Parker

Press Release: “50 years of Viridian Artists”

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 “50 years of Viridian Artists”
April 24th to May 19th, 2018
Opening reception: Thursday, April 26th, 6-8PM
Closing reception: Saturday, May 19, 4-6PM
festive dress in the spirit of the 60s & 70s when Viridian began!

 Alan Gaynor * Susan Sills * Barbara K. Schwartz * Kat King * Ellen Burnett * May DeViney * Renee Borkow * Mary Tooley Parker * John Nieman * Kiffi Diamond  * Bob Tomlinson * Bernice Faegenburg * Wally Gilbert * Namiyo Kubo * Henry Coupe * Tazuko Fuji * Oi Sawa * Ron Moore * Nancy Nicol * Stacey Clarfield Newman * Angela Smith * Srividya Kannan Ramachandran * Virginia Evans Smit * Robert Smith * Deborah Sudran * Toto Takamori * Bruce Rosen * Diana T Soorikian * Diane Root * Richard Karp * Rufus Snoddy * Carol Brookes * Bill Heard * Rick Mullin * Carol Yoshimine * Dorothy McGahee Braudy * Jeff Melzack * Paul Matthews * Marilyn Miller * Kelynn Alder * Sally Fine * Jain Hutzell * Judy Tummino * Arthur Dworin * Sabine Carlson * Carol Crawford * Mary-Ellen Campbell * Darryl Moody * Katherine Ellinger Smith* Robert Mielenhausen * Marjorie Zelman * Dave Dorsey * Carol Benisatto * Meredeth Turshen * Naomi Blum * Rosemary Lyons * Rima Grad * Elizabeth Hoff * Jordan Zweifler * Matthias Merdan * Phyllis Smith * Don Zurlo * Susan Hockaday * Ernesto Ruiz Bry * Ben Wohlberg * Arlene Finger and others

 Chelsea: It is with pleasure and pride that Viridian Artists is featuring past and present Viridian Artists in a celebration of 50 years of being. The show extends from April 24th to May 19th, 2018 with an opening reception Thursday, April 26th, 6-8PM and a closing reception Saturday, May 19, 4-6PM. We invite all to wear festive dress in the spirit of the 60s & 70s when Viridian began!

As one of the first artist-owned galleries in the New York City art world, Viridian began its existence in Soho when Soho was just beginning to be an art destination. In 1968, a group of Long Island artist formed a gallery just off West Broadway called Second Story Spring Street, the parent of Viridian Artists before SoHo was SoHo.   

Viridian moved from SoHo to becoming the only artist owned gallery on 57th St where it remained until 2001 in the NY Gallery Building. As the city was digging out from under the tragedy of 9/11, Viridian was moving to 530 W 25th in Chelsea where it remained until 2011, moving then to its current location at 548 West 28th Street.

The artists of Viridian draw from the complicated and often contradictory currents of modern life and contemporary culture to create their art. The gallery has always prized esthetic diversity and each Viridian Artist, past and present, has a particular approach to representation and a unique way of decoding reality. Among the more recent additions to the roster are 

Srividya Kannan Ramachandran who creates digital images and now has created a digital avatar who also creates and Ernesto Ruiz Bry whose gigantic collages take nearly a year to create. Viridian continues to reach out to incorporate the diverse branches of creativity that are exploding in our contemporary international art world.

Over the years some of the original artists have remained with the gallery while others have departed and then returned. With the gallery since its inception are Bernice Faegenburg, and Virginia Evans Smit and for nearly as long, Susan Sills, who served as gallery president until recently turning over that honor to photographer Alan Gaynor.  Other artists with the gallery since before 2000 include May DeViney, Renee Borkow, Robert Smith, Bob Tomlinson, Deborah Sudran.

Viridian prizes its international roster with Japanese artists Namiyo Kubo, Toto Takamori and Oi Sawa, and Tazuko Fujii who continue as honorary members. Viridian has added an estate affiliation with the estates of Henry Coupe, Barbara K Schwartz, who died recently and Bruce Rosen, enabling their work to continue to be shown, as well as a Young Artists category for artists under thirty years of age.

 As commercial galleries become artist-owned and cooperative galleries become more equally respected for their outstanding art and the freedom they give their artists, Viridian has maintained that critical balance necessary to compete in today's diverse art community. Today, surviving the heyday of “commercialism as art” and “art as real estate”, Viridian continues.  A catalog will become available in the near future.

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12- 6 PM

For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director

Ellen Burnett's work on exhibit in "Abstraction At Large": A group show at Site: Brooklyn Gallery

Ellen Burnett's work Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, can be seen in "Abstraction At Large" : a group exhibition at Site: Brooklyn Gallery.

Opening Reception: Wednesday April 11, 2018 from 6-9PM.

165 7th Street
Brooklyn, New York 11215

718.625.3646

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Call For Art at the Woman Made Gallery, Juried by Viridian's Director Vernita Nemec

Please consider applying to "Word Play" Call for art at the Woman Made gallery.
This competition will be juried by Viridian's Director, Vernita Nemec.
Click here for information on how to enter.

See below for more information about the exhibit.

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Exhibition Description: Intertwined throughout history, text and image have been used to deliver message and effect change. From sketchbooks to video, poetic thought to political activism, artists have added letters, numbers and words to give meaning to their art.

This exhibition serves to highlight the voice of all female identified artists who use text and image or text as image as a means of creative expression. Works in all media are welcome and encouraged. 

The application fee for our juried exhibitions is $30 for up to three images of work, plus one detail image if necessary. A limited number of artists who experience financial hardship may be exempt from paying the entry fee; please send us an email to request a fee waiver: general@womanmade.org. We encourage entries of recent works, but there is no restriction in the creation date. All applicants should submit an artist’s statement about their body of work. Accepted artworks must not exceed 72" horizontally and must not have been previously shown at WMG. 
About the Juror: Vernita Nemec

Vernita N’Cognita aka Vernita Nemec is a visual/ performance artist/ curator who has exhibited her art throughout the world.

Her artwork ranges across a variety of disciplines, from creating installations, m/m collages and tangible art objects such as the “Endless Junkmail Scroll to the creation of performance art that conceptually investigates theatre and its edges – using language, space, and time, silence and stillness as well as movement and voice as an instrument of self-expression.

In the 90's she served for a decade as the Director of Artists Talk On Art interviewing art world luminaries such as Irving Sandler, Rob Storr, Jerry Saltz, Nancy Spero, Peter Plagens and Robert Rosenblum. She was an independent curator at Henry Street Settlement for the Arts and currently, is the director of Viridian Artists, art gallery in Chelsea, NYC.

In 1995, she assumed the name VERNITA N’COGNITA in homage to under-recognized artists. In addition to her ongoing artistic output, she has curated and organized important exhibitions of art from recycled materials (“Art from Detritus: Recycling with Imagination”) throughout the U.S., for which she received a Kauffman Foundation Fellowship and a grant from the Puffin Foundation.

Nemec AKA N’Cognita has presented her art in a variety of venues: galleries, universities and experimental spaces in the US, Mexico City, Darmstadt & Frankfurt in Germany; Dublin, Ireland and Tokyo, Japan. She has received funding for her performance art from the Jerome Fnd and the NEA and in 2010 and 2015 was invited by Movement Research to perform at Judson Church where performance art came alive in the 60’s.

http://www.ncognita.com/  

Press Release: "Evil Plastic"

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“EVIL PLASTIC”
an “Art from Detritus” exhibit
Curated by Vernita Nemec
March 27-April 21, 2018
Reception: Thursday, March 29, 6-8PM
Lynn Neuman & Artichoke Dance Company, Thursday April 5th, 7 PM
Art Talk, Saturday April 21st, 4pm

Denise Adler * Catherine Armistead * Annaliese Bischoff * Ellen Burnett * Wendy Cloud *
Merill Comeau * Harry Delorme * May DeViney * Rachel Green * Julia Healy * Ed Herman * Halona Hilbertz * Michelle Lougee * Gail Mitchell * Lisa Moren * Lynn Neuman * Janet Nolan * Katherine Powers * Carol Quint * Helaine Soller * Jenifer R Stern * Courtney Lee Weida * Helen Zajkowski

Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present the exhibit  “EVIL PLASTIC”, featuring fine art made primarily from plastic trash. The heart of this exhibit is the message of the three R's: Reduce/Reuse/Recycle. The exhibit will open March 27th and continues through April 21st  with a reception March 29, 6-8pm, a dance performance April 5th at 7PM & an Art Talk Saturday April 21st at 4PM. 10% of sales of these artworks in this exhibit will be given to an environmental organization fighting the evils of plastic.

“EVIL PLASTIC” attempts to say it straight: plastic trash has come to be a primary force in the destruction of our environment. The ocean is filled with gyres of plastic floating like islands and harboring dangers that lure fish, birds and sea mammals with a promise of food that has no nourishment. Coral reefs are being chocked by plastic debris. It is up to humans to master their creative energies to devise solutions to this eminent threat of annihilation.

Slowly we are beginning to develop compostable plastic or recycling & upcycling these materials into useful objects but will we do so quickly enough?. In the North Pacific Ocean, there are 6x more plastic debris than plankton. We have an island in the middle of the North Pacific Gyre, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch composed mostly of plastic. 10% of the plastic we use yearly ends up in the ocean.

Artists have long used trash as a medium but their message in this exhibit is clear. All these works are created primarily from plastic debris. Some of the works speak through the mere use of these materials, others are more decisive in their message of the evil of  plastic if left untethered.

Since 1994, the changing groups of artists in these environmentally conscious exhibits, have opened a dialogue  through their art making, about the importance of protecting the environment. “Art from Detritus”, or art from waste, was conceived by artist/ curator Vernita Nemec, that same year in Portland Oregon during the annual conference of the National Recycling Coalition (NRC) and presented in the lobby of a recycled Sears Roebuck building, the corporate head quarters for municipal waste & recycling there. Since then, the exhibit has re-occurred with funding from the Kauffman Foundation, the Puffin Foundation and  sponsorship by the NRC. Past Detritus exhibitions have occurred in

Pittsburgh, Kansas City MO, Phoenix AZ, Turners Falls MA and NYC. See more information and images of past Detritus shows at www.ncognita.com.

Vernita Nemec, a.k.a. Vernita N'Cognita, is a visual & performance artist, a curator, the director of Viridian Artists  and formerly the Director of Artists Talk on Art (ATOA). She is also on the board of Advisors of ATOA & Soho20. 

Gallery hours Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM

For further information please contact the gallery at 212-414-4040, viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view our website: viridianartists.com

John Nieman's Work is Reviewed in ART TOUR INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE

Here is an excerpt from the article:

Award winning artist and writer John Nieman is an internationally recognized American author of numerous novels and art books, well known for his unique realist style of painting that utilizes the subject overlaid with words to create an underlying message, a riddle, that the viewer is invited to explore with deep concentration and thought. Nieman manages to combine visualarts with literature, creating a result which is highly conceptual and balances between these two distinctive media to create a harmonious out come that intellectually challenges the public. In his new series, John Nieman moves the realm of curiosity into the lives of people by inviting his viewers into a shifted perspective as he experiments with the scope of intimacy and vulnerability. Exhibiting the experience ofNewYork as train rides turn into glimpses of a stranger's life. "All the apartments that line the tracks have their windows visible without any blinds.""We already have not much privacy in our lives, and these subjects seem to indicate that people do very little to protect their privacy"he states, as he shifts towards a more social conceptual focus in his artistic expression while utilizing his already well-developed creative tools. In essence,it is a work that refers to contemporary society and the privacy, solidarity, social life and all such concepts that are under radical redefinition. Thus the viewer is confronted with the hidden truths that most desire to keep private, yet openly leave themselves in a vulnerable position to be discovered, and seen for their truth.

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Press Release: "30 Under 30"

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"30 Under 30"
Juried by Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum Curator
February 27- March 24, 2018
Reception Thursday March 1st, 6-8pm
Panel discussion moderated by Chrissie Iles, Saturday, March 3rd, 4PM
Closing reception Saturday March 24, 4-6pm

Catherine Armistead, Daniel Ashley, Min Baek, Kimberly Barnes, Darla Barolini,
Nicole Basilone, Julia Betts, Ashley Bouton, Amelia Calsi, Mei Fung Elizabeth Chan,
Yu-Ting Cheng, Courtney Clegg, Renee Cuny, Camilla Marie Dahl, Alyse Delaney,
Marcus DeSieno, Victoria Ermler, Kyle Hackett, Zhongwen Hu, Maria Kostareva, Giulia Livi , Graham Livingston, Kenish Magwood, Maya McCoy, Guy Miller jr, Hyungjo Moon,
Rajab Sayed, Claire Stankus, Teona Yamanidze, Katrina Slavik

 Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present for the second time an exhibition of artists who are all under 30 years of age. “30 Under 30“ continues from February 27 to March 24, with a reception to meet the artists, Thursday March 1st, 6-8PM. and a panel discussion moderated by curator Chrissie Iles with selected artists from the exhibit happening Saturday March 3rd at 4PM

In a world changing culturally and politically more rapidly than ever, these artworks perhaps offer a clue to future ways artists look at their lives and times through art making. The artists in this exhibition were selected from a “call for art” the gallery sent out to discover what young artists are thinking about and creating art about in these times. From a wide range of applicants, the art of 30 artists - all under 30 years of age - was selected by Chrissie Iles, a curator at the Whitney Museum.

No longer is it possible to get large workspaces or showing spaces without huge rents. The struggle to be an artist full time is a dream few can afford and making art in shared spaces is the rule rather than the exception.  Consequently, Viridian has created an affordable membership program for young and gifted artists for we realize not only how expensive space is today both for showing and working, but also, how important it is for artists to live and show their art in a competitive and supportive environment.

As in the case of our juried exhibit open to artist of all ages & persuasions, Viridian has instituted a digital presentation of 30 artists selected by the gallery director, Vernita Nemec, giving an opportunity to 30 additional artists and giving gallery visitors a chance to see the work of more artists of merit.

Just how difficult is it now is for young artists to achieve their dreams of fame, respect and possibly fortune? What are their concerns? What materials do they work with? Why are some still making art in traditional materials & in traditional ways? How has social media, astronomical rents, and less space changed the way in which artists just beginning their careers express themselves creatively?

To learn the answers to some of these questions, gallery visitors are invited to look at the art itself & also to meet some of the artists at the opening and closing receptions. There will also be a panel discussion moderated by Ms. Iles on Saturday, March 3rd at 4PM when artists that were selected by both Ms. Iles & Ms. Nemec will talk about their work.  

Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM

For further information please contact the gallery at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistinc@gmail.com

Wally Gilbert Retrospective Show in Cambridge, MA

LabCentral will host a Wally Gilbert Retrospective
from February 19 to April 12, 2018.

Reception with the artist:
Tuesday, March 20, 5 to 7 pm

The show is in three galleries at
700 Main Street,
North Cambridge, MA 02139

Hours:  Monday to Friday, :9 am to 4:30 pm

For access until 6 pm or for a guided tour Please email Shazia Mir: smir@labcentral.org

For more information about the  LabCentral Reception:

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