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| Presents THOMAS NOZKOWSKI and JOYCE ROBINS
July 11 – 23, 2003 RECEPTION: Friday, July 11 7-10 PM
CONTACT: Michael Carroll This year we are pleased to present Tom Nozkowski and Joyce Robins together in the Silas-Kenyon Gallery. This will be among the most significant exhibitions in Provincetown in 2003 and one of the most exciting ever at the Schoolhouse Center. Tom and Joyce make work in such a way that the viewer is given tremendous permission to achieve in their own right, while their mastery of medium and career achievement present a unique opportunity for Cape Cod collectors. Tom and Joyce exhibit together every ten years or so, and we are thrilled to have them in our galleries for this one. I was first attracted to their work in reviews and then, with further research, in galleries various publications. It became apparent to me that Tom makes work that will really speak to the collectors and artists in this area. His work is intellectual and kind of anti-formal, and though he is clearly having a relationship that involves a mastery of medium, and as such the work is recognizably his own. Each piece becomes a "new situation" - alive in such a way as to be a perfect visual articulation of its own motivations and achievements. It is stunning and extremely difficult not to rely on formulas and he does this very well. Joyce makes work that exists just out of the reach of language, but certain works apply. After painting on canvas and switching to sculpture, Robins went to school to study landscape design and also pursued and interest in ceramics, and began to experiment with the medium, bringing to it her painter’s eye, her sculptural sense of physicality and a newfound vocabulary of pattern notation from her work in landscape design. Her ceramic pieces are fully engaged with their surroundings, which happily succumbs to their persistent requests to be considered using some of the most pleasurable parts of physical looking. She is an excellent colorist, and her experience with the stuff that might exist inside form is such that after resting on how the work is made we allow ourselves to become a participant in the joy and sly humor emanating from the looking at and being with the work. The combination of accuracy and humor has the effect of animating what inside us wants to be alive in our own life’s story. - MC Tom Nozkowski, one of America’s foremost abstract painters, has had more than 50 one-person exhibitions worldwide and been in more than 100 group shows since 1973. Nozkowski has received the American Academy of Fine Arts and letters Award in Painting (1999) and Purchase Prize (1998 & 1999); a New York State Foundation of the Arts Fellowship (1989); and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant (1984). He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (1993). His works are in permanent collections including Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Centre National des Artes Plastiques, Paris; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Nozkowski lives and works in New York and teaches at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Joyce Robins was born in Greenville, South Carolina. She was educated at the Yale Summer School of Art, The Cooper Union (B.F.A.,1966) and at The City University of New York (B.S.L.A.,1995). She has had seventeen one-person shows of her artwork, most recently at the Jane Hartsook Gallery in New York City (2002). In addition her work has been seen recently in many group shows at galleries and museums, including The Brooklyn Museum, The Gasworks (London), The Delaware Art Museum, Vassar College, Pierogi Gallery, Pewabic Pottery, Lennon Weinberg Gallery. In addition to making sculpture, Joyce Robins is a landscape designer. Her current projects include a public sculpture garden in Beacon NY, scheduled to open in the summer of 2003. Robins has taught sculpture at Vassar College. Her awards and honors include being a finalist for the Chrysler Foundation Design Awards in 2000 and a recipient of a New York State Creative Artists Public Service Grant for Sculpture (1982). Robins was a visiting artist at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (2000). Robins work has been written about in The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, The Village Voice, The Nation, The New York Observer, The Philadelphia Inquirer and American Ceramics. She lives and works in New York City and in the Hudson Valley of New York State.
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