| Opening Reception | N. Dash
Friday, November 22, 2019, 6 – 8 pm
At MCASB, 653 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of New York-based artist N. Dash. Presenting new works, large scale multi-panel paintings, and new drawings from the artist’s ongoing Commuter series, N. Dash will be on view from November 22, 2019, to February 16, 2020, at the Main Gallery of MCASB.N. Dash at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) is curated by Abaseh Mirvali, Executive Director and Chief Curator, and is an expanded presentation of N. Dash, organized by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Senior Curator.
Click here to read more about N. Dash in e-flux.
N. Dash (b. 1980, Miami, Florida, USA) lives and works in New York, New York, USA. The paintings, photographs, and drawings of N. Dash 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 works 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 scraps into meticulously finished surfaces, Dash’s work evokes the materially embodied yet intangible presence of attentive touch. More » |
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| In Conversation | Abaseh Mirvali & Amy Smith-Stewart
Friday, November 22, 2019, 5:30 – 6 pm | Members Only
At 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, Museum of Contemporary Art (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, and 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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| Image credits:
N. Dash, Untitled, 2019, Adobe, graphite, acrylic, linen, jute, wood and aluminum support, 121.92 x 182.88 cm, Courtesy the Artistand Casey Kaplan, New York, Photo: Jason Wyche. |
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