Artosphere Festival Orchestra - Beyond Sublime: Changing Nature 2010

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About the Curator

Andrea Packard is a Philadelphia-based curator and artist. Since 1995, Packard has directed the List Gallery, Swarthmore College, She has also served as a art juror, panelist, curator, lecturer, and instructor at varied institutions including the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, NY; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and Oglethorpe University Museum, Atlanta.

Winner of numerous awards, including a residency from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, she recently showed her work in a solo exhibition at The Philadelphia International Airport and a group exhibition at Lohin Geduld Gallery, NY. She is currently represented by the Painting Center, NY.

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Works by Emmet Gowin, Eileen Neff, Paula Winokur, Eric Aho and Stacy Levy.

April 22 - May 30, 2010
Joy Pratt Markham Gallery
Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR

This exhibition, curated by Andrea Packard, inaugurates the newly renovated Joy Pratt Markham Gallery and features work in diverse media by five pre-eminent artists who offer transformative visions of our relationship to nature. The exhibition is accompanied by a 20-page color catalog including an essay by the curator.

Beyond Sublime presents masterfully crafted art works that move beyond picturesque or conventional representations of nature. Working in photography, painting, sculpture and installation, the selected artists connect viewers to the beauty and mystery of our environment in ways that challenge habitual perceptions and definitions. Demonstrating imaginative vision, dedication to craft and a dynamic approach to materials and viewpoints, the selected artists prompt new ways of responding to both natural and built environments. As Packard writes in the exhibition catalog: “Redefining traditional concepts of the sublime, they explore the way human interventions not only alter our environment, but the internal terrain from which imagination springs.”