A painting exhibition by MFA candidates and recent MFA recipients
Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago
Curated by Sergio Gomez, MFA
Exhibition extended through March 19, 2010
CLOSING RECEPTION: Friday, March 19 from 7 - 10 pm
ABOUT THE MFA EXHIBITION
2010 marks the first decade of the 21st Century. Under the watchful eye of a technology driven society, online social networking and cyber interaction communities, a group of young artists have been evolving and redefining one of the oldest mediums of art. The National Wet Paint MFA Exhibition will be an outlook and an overview of promising artists across the United States currently working in the medium of painting. Wet Paint refers to the idea that this is a fresh group of artists (MFA candidates/graduates) working in painting media.
Wet Paint will pose the following questions: How is the next generation of artists redefining one of the oldest art mediums? How are new technologies impacting their painting materials, methods, techniques, processes and ideas? How are graduate programs in America reshaping painting? What does painting mean to a new generation? Wet Paint will highlight and give a forum to a new generation of artists working from traditional to experimental painting media.
ABOUT THE ZHOU B ART CENTER
The Zhou B Art Center is a private, non-government funded art center designed to facilitate the exchange of contemporary art between Chicago and the international art community. The 87,000 square feet art center offers innumerable possibilities for exploring the arts in a charismatic location and collectively form an extravagant art center fusing culture and creativity.
The Zhou B Art Center was founded in 2003 by the world renowned artists, the Zhou Brothers. It is now home to several exhibition spaces, a cafe, an art store, galleries and artist studios. It has established itself as the premier venue for internationally recognized art shows and events and continues to galvanize the South Side and the Bridgeport neighborhood as the most interesting new area for the arts in Chicago. Visit our website at www.zbcenter.org.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Sergio Gomez, MFA Artist is a recognized visual artist, designer, professor, entrepreneur and in-house curator at the Zhou B Art Center. Sergio currently serves as the Director of 33 Collective Gallery in Chicago and founder as well as Director of VisualArtToday.com, a curated online exhibition space for international contemporary art. Mr. Gomez believes in the importance of providing a world class exhibition forum for emerging national talent. With the Zhou B Art Center as its venue, Gomez presents the National Wet Paint Exhibition as a platform for emerging contemporary painting.
