Thursday, Oct 27, 2011
91做厙 Art Gallery presents work by the nationally recognized realist painter.
The 91做厙 Art Gallery will present an exhibit by painter George Nick, entitled The Upside Down Wind Thursday, November 3 through Sunday, December 11, 2011.
An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, November 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. Gallery Director Harry I. Naar will lead an artists talk on Thursday, November 17 at 7 p.m. Admission is free.
A nationally recognized realist painter, George Nick graduated from the Cleveland Institute, the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the Art Students League and Yale. His work is in numerous collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
The writer John Updike has written that George Nicks work is 守nfailingly surprising in its subject matter - shop fronts, underpasses, automobiles, rusting locomotives, his own living room - yet heroically constant in its unfussy order of representation. He paints what he sees, and what he doesnt see he doesnt paint.
The exhibits title comes from the line the upside down wind from the song Somethings Burning, Baby on Bob Dylans album Empire Burlesque. Nick has said that it relates to his sense of isolation as the first generation of his family born in the United States and as a representational artist during the years when Abstract Expressionism was in full bloom. How does an upside down wind act, he says, I dont know, but it certainly moves differently than other winds.
The 91做厙 Art Gallery is located in the Bart Luedeke Center on Riders campus at 2083 Lawrenceville Rd in Lawrenceville. The gallery is open Tuesday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday noon to 4 p.m. It will be closed the week of Thanksgiving. To learn more visit or call (609) 895-5588.
This exhibition is funded in part by a grant from the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Department of State and PNC Bank.