Nascent

July 25 – August 23, 2008

Exhibit Curated by James Manning

Featuring the art of Mike Farley, Cathleen Faubert,
Georgie Friedman, Pete Froslie and Lizzy Martinez.

Presented at The New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University.

About Nascent:

Nascent features the work of 2008 graduates of Boston area art schools.
The five artists in this exhibit are engaged in an examination of perceptions of reality and give their own interpretations of personally influential events and ideas.
Thematically, the works in this exhibit are tied together by each artists own manipulations of reality, life forms re-imagined, new landscapes and histories envisioned.

James Manning, curator of the exhibit states,
“As a long time supporter of student and ‘emerging’ artists,I believe it is especially important to support and encourage artists as they make the leap from student to life as a professional artist.
Life as a student can be an isolating experience working within the same group withing an art school for several years.
Exhibitions such as this one are an important step as it gives these artists a chance to show the very best of their student output to a new audience of peers that would have not have had the opportunity to see this work otherwise.
This allows fresh feedback as they continue on with new work.”

Mike Farley (2008, BFA, New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University)
Farley explores how separate natural elements can be combined to create new life forms.
His work is informed by the natural world, organic structures, and biology.

Cathleen Faubert (2008, MFA, Museum School/Tufts University)
Faubert focuses on the intersection of hedonism, escapism, excess, the uncanny and the carnivalesque.
In her photographs she is seen floating above and crashing into mounds of cotton candy.

Georgie Friedman (2008, MFA, Museum School/Tufts University)
Friedman creates an idealized, meditative environment by seamlessly integrating separate sky and water elements in her projected video installation.

Pete Froslie (2008, MFA, Massachusetts College of Art & Design)
In his work, Froslie explores diverse tangents, from alchemy to alternate histories and questions our common perceptions.
The life of John Wilks Booth is re-imagined and re-examined by his interactive, multimedia installation presented in Nascent.

Lizzy Martinez (2008 MFA, Boston University)
Martinez is a painter who has extensively studied the anatomy of cadavers.
In her work she is quite literally looking at her own ‘inner workings’ while creating a complicated personal mythology.