PIXNIT Productions is pleased to announce the group show In Pursuit of Beauty open now until January 24th, 2009 at Montserrat Gallery in Beverly, MA.
Leonie Bradbury, Curator of the exhibition wrote the following about the exhibition:
In Pursuit of Beauty brings together five artists who examine both the politics and poetics of the beautiful. They are: Julie Chang (San Francisco, CA), Timothy Horn (Melbourne, Australia), PIXNIT (Boston, MA), Tomás Rivas (Santiago, Chile), and Elizabeth Wallace (Boston, MA). This exhibition is inspired by the resurgence of visually sensual work. Unapologetically decorative, ornate, and concerned with elaborate surface detail, each artist explores beauty in their own way.
They are exemplary of a generation of artists who have come into the 21st century art world with a renewed interest in beauty as a tool and a topic of investigation, making it an integral part of their artistic process. These artists utilize rich surface designs to draw the viewer to the work, only to surprise them with seditious content. Their pursuit differs from the classical understanding of beauty as perfectly proportioned and idealized by integrating imperfection rather than excluding it.
To read her essay in it's entirety, along with detailed profiles of each Artist participating, check out Montserrat's website at www.montserrat.edu and the upcoming exhibition catalogue.
"In addition to PIXNIT’s large-scale painting installation Parlous. PIXNIT installed a campus wide stencil art series as part of her ongoing beautification campaign Spores. Executed in bold, bright colors, the Spores images are created with hand-drawn and cut canvas stencils and spray paint. The Montserrat series was commissioned by the gallery and installed a month prior to the exhibition on college property."