MARIETTA,
GA – Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art will present its 14th
annual Metro Montage Juried Exhibition.
This year’s Montage features mainly Georgia artists with a few from across the
country.
The
Exhibition’s Opening Reception will be on July 19, 2014, from 6pm to 8pm at the
museum, and pieces will remain on exhibit in the Museum’s Main Galleries until
September 14. Metro Montage XIV is a
juried art show that will feature a montage of subject matter, media, and
styles from contemporary artists.
This
year’s juror is Rachel White, the Assistant Curator of Education at the Hunter
Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She has a Masters and PhD in
Art History from George Washington University and the University of Illinois,
respectively. Her specialty and teaching responsibilities were in Modern and
Contemporary Art and American Art.
Rachel
describes how she interpreted this year’s Metro
Montage:
“In my opinion, Metro Montage is an exhibition predicated on chaos,
where conventional curatorial frames such as theme or style fall away in favor
of a rowdy mash-up of genres and media, tradition and iconoclasm. This all-over
quality has its roots in the early 20th century, when artists
developed the technique of cutting and pasting photographs and typography onto
a support, disregarding the visual conventions of pictorial space and
rationality. This method also resonated with the modern experience of moving
through the urban environment in new modes of transport—figures, signage,
lights, and logos whirling by.
Today, our interactions with the world are often digital, where
chaotic visual stimuli are structured through complex codes into neat website
design, Facebook feeds, and Pinterest pages. Bridging the divide between the
historic illegibility of montage and our gridded digital platforms, I chose
many of the works for this exhibition that spoke on spatiality and form in
compelling ways. Three works in particular stood out amid the hundreds of
submitted images for their explorations on how we structure and engage with our
environment.”
Metro Montage
XIV received over 700 entries. The following
artists will be exhibiting:
Alexia Arani
Liz Barber
Ryan Benefield
Clifford Blanchard
Heidi J. Bowman
Cathy Clemensen
John Clemmer
Alton Coleman
Teresa Crowder
Nikki Davidson
Matthew Derezinksi
Steve Dininno
Beth Evans
Andrew Feiler
Melanie Ferguson
Craig Ford
Lisa Fulton
Jill Gewirtz
Jack Girard
Mary-Bryan Giroux
Victoria Goro-Rapoport
Nancy Suffolk Guerine
Anne Hall
Paul Hitchen
Donna M. Horn
Jodie MW Hutchens
Holly Irwin
Marcus Jansen
Jane Jaskevich
Marshall Jones
Tain Kell
Maureen E. Kerstein
Karl Gustav Kroeppler
Tom LaBarge
Anna Ladefoged
Michael Leidel
Billie P. Mathis
Kathleen McCoy
Susan McGrew
Kipley A. Meyer
Megan Mosholder
Selena Nawrocki
Vanessa Niederstrasser
Bernard Nolan
Mary Ann Parris
Reid J. Perryman
Mary H. Phelan
Doug Pisik
Julie Plasketes
Connie Lynn Reilly
LeeAnna Repass
Deeann Rieves
Junko Ono Rothwell
Ann Fay Rushforth
Lisa M. Schwendemann Smith
Corrina Sephora
Diane Shaftman
Carolyn W. Shelburne
Donna Shiver
Oziel Silva
Alvin Staley
Alan Stecker
Aviva Stern
John Sumner
Ken Szmagaj
Jeff Taylor
Charles Young Walls
Cecil Warfel
David Wendel
Carol Jean Wheeler
Chris Wilson
Thomas L. Wood
Metro
Montage XIV will
remain on exhibit until September 14, 2014. General admission to see the
museum’s exhibitions is $8. Free admission to Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art
members. In addition to Metro Montage
XIV, the museum will also exhibit Isadora
and Walkowtiz: Modernists of Movement and Line at the same time
Marietta/Cobb
Museum of Art
The
Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art is the only Metropolitan-Atlanta fine arts museum
focusing on American Art. Dedicated to building community through art, the
museum’s permanent collection houses a variety of artworks dating from as early
as the 18th century to the present. In addition, the museum hosts a variety of
events, activities, and educational opportunities throughout the year. For more
information visit http://www.mariettacobbartmuseum.org/
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