MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, opened two exhibitions last Saturday night. On the second floor of Building 4, Nari Ward made enormous installations for a show titled Sub Mirage Lignum, a hybrid zone made of mostly repurposed materials where the real and the imaginary are intermingled, forcing visitor to challenge the reality before them. Upstairs, two graduate students from the masters program at Williams College, Emily Leisz Carr and Oliver Wunsch (left with fellow Williams graduate student Lucie Steinberg), curated a show called Memery: Imitation, Memory and Internet Culture (through July 31) that features work made of words, pictures and videos found on the Internet.
Jason Wilcox and Sarah Hammond who works at The Clark; Charity & Ari Wijetunga
Artist Susan Crile, Nari Ward and artist Firelei Báez, who is one of Ward's students.
Maya Mondlak & Nira Ward explore a gallery; MASS MoCA's Katherine Myers with Jennifer Trainer Thompson (in a skirt by artist J. Morgan Puett who has shown at MASS MoCA) and Canadian curator Jeanie Riddle.
Artist Michael Boroniec with arts consultant Cathy Deely and Kate Morris, whose husband is the chairman of the MASS MoCA Board of Trustees.
Artist James Voorhies of the Bureau for Open Culture who will be opening a biergarten at MASS MoCA this summer with curator Denise Markonish and Nate Padavick.
Art advisor Kalika Farmer and Pip Deely; North Adams art dealer Kurt Kolok with Matthew Cooperman.
Artist Jeanet Ingalls with Pittsfield cultural commissioner Megan Whilden; art dealer Leslie Ferrin with Susan Cross.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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