A National Juried Exhibition June 16th – July 15th, 2021
Attleboro Arts Museum
86 Park Street, Attleboro, MA 02703
In-gallery exhibition:
June 16th–July 15th, 2021
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 10am-4pm
Closed Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
Admission and parking are free.
Donations are always appreciated.
Virtual Artist Talk: Friday, June 18th from 6:30pm – 7:30pm, EST.
Free and open to all.
Registration is required to receive a link to the talk:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcOqsqjgiHtQo1VFtSZ4LASiau0d63_Vv
Attleboro, MA – June 5th , 2021
In January 2021, the Attleboro Arts Museum posted an online national call-for-artists requesting artwork that reflected the undeniable or dabbled in the hypothetical. After coping with months of hardship and confusion activated by health, social and political issues, U.S. artists had ample fuel to explore and res pond to the organization’s Real or Imagined theme.
And that they did.
416 artists from Alaska to Florida digitally submitted 756 works of art for guest juror Clare Bell, Senior Director of Exhibitions at
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to review. After careful consideration, close to 100 works were selected to appear in the museum’s Ottmar Gallery .
“This year’s exhibition theme surfaced dreams, fears, struggles, comfort zones and points of curiosity. The experiences and restrictions of 2020/2021 have deeply impacted the visual arts community nationwide,” comments Mim Brooks Fawcett, the museum’s Executive Director and Chief Curator and author of the exhibition’s theme for this year. The museum has been mounting an annual exhibition of national work inspired by a range of unique concepts for nearly 15 years.
The public is invited to attend a Virtual Artist Talk for Real or Imagined on Friday, June 18th from 6:30pm – 7:30pm (EST). The work of all exhibiting artists will be recognized at the start of the event, six juror’s award winners will speak about their art and the Museum’s national juried exhibition theme for 2022 will be announced. The talk is free and open to all. Reservations are required to receive a link to join:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcOqsqjgiHtQo1VFtSZ4LASiau0d63_Vv
Artist Ashley Goodwyn of Madison, WI asks ”How do we know what we see is real? When we take a step, we have come to trust that the ground is there and hard. What happens if the ground does not hold our weight and we fall? We feel a moment of betrayal from our eyes or from the ground itself. I hope to have viewers of my work in a constant state of questioning reality. Can we trust what we perceive to believe?” Goodwyn has received a Juror’s Award for her dynamic installation entitled Phone Book
The Attleboro Arts Museum’s gallery hours for Real or Imagined are Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm.
The Museum is closed on Saturday, July 3rd. Admission is free; donations are always appreciated. All masked visitors are welcome.
Exhibiting Artists
Riki Ackerman
Merrimac, MA
Kristiina Almy
Sherborn, MA
Meg Aubrey
Corpus Christi, TX
Lisa
Bailey
Franklin, MA
Samuel Bazdresch
Saint Louis, MO
Vincent Benavidez
Pueblo, CO
Caitlin Berndt
Brooklyn, NY
Jen Blalock
Lumber Bridge, NC
Trudy Borenstein
Princeton, NJ
Chelsea Bradway
Southborough, MA
Frid Branham
Brooklyn, NY
Lynne Breitfeller
Emerson, NJ
Amy Broderick
Jupiter, FL
Emily Bujnoch
College Station, TX
Phone Book