NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
New Britain, CT
March 9 - June 9, 2013
Opening Reception:
Sunday, March 10, 1:00 - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM Artists remarks
Michael Mahalchick moves seamlessly between the realms of sculpture/assemblage, installation, performance, music and dance, weaving chance, humor, brio and what he calls a “scavenging” aesthetic into his work. A graduate of the Tyler School of Art (BFA) and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA), he has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at PS1/MoMA, Queens, NY and the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, and is currently on the visiting faculty at the Yale University School of Art.
As Mahalchick conceptualizes his installation in NEW/NOW, he invites your input and participation. Objects donated to the Museum will become the raw material for his work. Mahalchick will combine them in unexpected ways to present a cross-section of our community’s collective belongings. The artist welcomes your trinkets, hand-made treasures, decorative items, manufactured goods, heirlooms with which you are ready to part, etc. If an object could conceivably be found at a garage sale and is of reasonable size, it likely fits the bill. Please be creative and think outside the box, and you may just find your former belonging reimagined, reused, reworked and on view in the Cheney Gallery from March 9 through June 9, 2013.
Objects should be dropped off at the Museum’s Front Desk during regular public hours through January 20th. Please no dangerous chemicals, deadly weapons, pressurized containers, plants or animals (alive or dead) of any kind, or materials of hazardous, explosive, flammable, perishable, or decaying nature. For any questions about this project, contact Assistant Curator Anna Rogulina ( rogulinaa@nbmaa.org). Acceptance of objects is under the discretion of the Museum staff.
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