DON’T MISS IT:
N. DASH OPENING RECEPTION
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Opening Reception | N. Dash
Friday, November 22, 2019, 6 – 8 pm
Members Only Preview 5 – 6 pm (Not a member yet? Join Here!)
MCASB, 653 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of New York-based artist N. Dash. The exhibition will present new works shown for the first time, including pieces from the artist’s ongoing Commuter series, presented together with recent large scale paintings. The works convey a profound tactile sensitivity through the artist’s manipulation of materials such as fabric, adobe, jute, polystyrene, paper, and string. Utilizing this wide variety of media with a minute attention to detail, Dash constructs compositions that engage with visible and invisible forms of energy and movement: of bodily meridians, architectural circulation, and environmental flux. Transmuting rough materials such as jute, mud, and fabric into meticulously finished surfaces, Dash’s work evokes the materially embodied yet intangible presence of attentive touch.
N. Dash at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) is curated by Abaseh Mirvali, Executive Director, Chief Curator & CEO, and is an expanded presentation of N. Dash, organized by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Senior Curator.
N. Dash (b. 1980, Miami, Florida, USA) lives and works in New York, New York, USA. N. Dash’s work spans painting, sculpture, photography and drawing and employs both natural and manmade materials, including pigments, adobe/mud, jute, graphite, fabric and polystyrene. Across these materials, the artist’s inimitable approach seeks to both record sensory and informational capacities of touch and render typically unseen conduits of energy: ecological, architectural, and corporeal. More »
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| In Conversation | Abaseh Mirvali & Amy Smith-Stewart
Friday, November 22, 2019, 5:30 – 6 pm | Members Only
MCASB, 653 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Members are invited to be a part of an exclusive preview prior to the opening of the exhibition N. Dash with Abaseh Mirvali, Chief Curator, Executive Director & CEO, MCASB. Mirvali will be joined by Amy Smith-Stewart, Senior Curator, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, for an informative and engaging conversation about the work of N. Dash.
Abaseh Mirvali is the Executive Director, Chief Curator & CEO at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, in Santa Barbara, California, USA. During her inaugural year as Chief Curator, Mirvali has presented the first solo U.S. West Coast show of Turin-based artist, Lara Favaretto, the U.S. West Coast solo museum debut show of American filmmaker and artist, James Benning, James Benning: Quilts, Cigarettes & Dirt (Portraits of America), and the U.S. institutional debut of Ari Benjamin Meyers and his institution Kunsthalle for Music. More »
Amy Smith-Stewart is Senior Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, and the founder of the eponymous nomadic curatorial project, previously located on the Lower East Side. She was formerly a Curator at MoMA PS1, a Curatorial Advisor for the Mary Boone Gallery, and the 2006–08 Guest Curator for the Peter Norton Collection. She has curated more than sixty exhibitions in museums and galleries. She has taught in the MFA Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts and the MA Contemporary Art program at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art. More » |
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| Meditative Sound Bath | Amelia Belle & Bob Rudorf
Sunday, November 24, 2019
11 am – noon | FREE
Join us in the museum for a gathering of gratitude! Discover the transformational power of sound vibrations as you are surrounded by the art in the galleries. Enjoy a crystal bowl sound meditation facilitated by Sonoma-based healers Amelia Belle and Bob Rudorf, and settle into a deep level of gratitude for all that we have and are. More » |
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