ELEVATE

Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery at Nassau Community College

Sep. 2, 2024 - Nov. 13, 2014

1 Education Drive
Garden City , New York 11530
516-572-0619 ext. 2-5073

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The Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery introduces ELEVATE, a group sculpture installation at Nassau Community College. Artists Carolyn Salas, Rachel Mica Weiss, and Monika Zarczena use materials that remind the viewer of the unseen forces that drive artistic creation and the ability of materials to exceed definitions.

Gravity is opposed with tension as we strive to remain above ground and water, occasionally breaking free into the air.  Humanity, the only self-referential species has always sought ways to record these efforts.   The surfaces in this exhibit read as an archeological narrative, reflecting intention and experience. There is a link in each artist’s creative process, transcending materials into works of aesthetic impact and emotional resonance. Sculpture as a discipline is often associated with weight and mass, but these artists’ works seem to levitate, carrying with them light, color, translucency, and space. Along with gravitational defiance each piece bears the hopes, fears, anxieties and aspirations of their creators, displayed in a diverse manipulation of materials.  Taken into consideration with the surrounding NCC gallery and campus, the artwork invites the viewer to engage these ideas in real time and space as both the materials and ideas lift off and become something new. 
Nathan Wasserbauer, Exhibit Curator

An artists’ reception will be held on October 9 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM in the Gallery.
All are welcome.

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