Anya Antonovych Metcalf
There is a Crack in Everything
The Hub, Nassau, Bahamas
May 29 – June 16, 2009
Preview: 28 May, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Reception: 29 May, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Talk: 4 June, 6:30 pm
STATEMENT
The mixed media paintings and drawings that comprise the exhibit There is a Crack in Everything are based on photographs of distressed surfaces in Nassau – peeling paint on dilapidated buildings, rusted garbage cans, old machinery. Because the photographs flattened the subject, I was able to focus on a spiritual quality of color and on expressive mark making rather than on texture. The subject as a fact quickly lost significance, and the works become abstract as they were translated from photographs, to drawings, and finally, to paintings. I have borrowed the title from the refrain in Anthem, a song by Leonard Cohen: “There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.” I interpret this to mean that imperfection can be a form of revelation. These lines reinforce the premise of Cohen’s novel Beautiful Losers: that there is a beauty and a brokenness in everyone. It is this sprit that I hope to communicate in my most recent body of work.
EDUCATION
1998-2004 - B.A. English Literature, minor History and Philosophy of Science: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Summer 2006 - Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, Brittany, France
Summer 2005 - Sotheby’s Institute, London, England
Spring 2003-04 - Dominican University, River Forest, IL, United States
Summer 2003 - Dominican University in Florence, Italy
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
May – Jun 2009 - There is a Crack in Everything, The Hub, Nassau, Bahamas
Sep – Oct 2008 - Paradiso, Popopstudios Centre for the Visual Arts, Nassau, Bahamas.
May 2008 - Surf n Turf (open studio), Popopstudios Centre for the Visual Arts, Nassau, Bahamas
Jun 2006 - The Sea Bleeds, La Mairie, Pont Aven, Brittany, France
Mar 2006 - Stills, Independent Radio Gallery, Chicago, IL
Apr 2004 - Works on Paper, Leadway Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
May 2009 - Art Benefit for the Brooklyn Waldorf School, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Oct – Nov 2008 - Sugar, Popopstudios Centre for the Visual Arts, Nassau, Bahamas
Jun – Sept 2008 - Scrimmage, Popopstudios Centre for the Visual Arts, Nassau, Bahamas
May 2008 - Bahamas International Film Festival Auction,
Popopstudios Centre for the Visual Arts, Nassau, Bahamas
Mar 2008 - Transforming Spaces, Popopstudios Centre for the Visual Arts, Nassau, Bahamas
Oct 2007 - Bahamas International Film Festival Auction, Popopstudios Centre for the Visual Arts, Nassau, Bahamas
April 2007 - Art Auction, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Oct – Dec 2006 Blue Sky Black Earth: Meditations on the Meeting of Sky and Land traveling exhibition), Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL; McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
Jun 2006 - Group Exhibit, CIAC (Centre international d’art contemporain), Pont Aven, Brittany, France
Upcoming Exhibitions
Arjuna “AJ” Watson
Muse
One Night Only
Friday, June 19, 2009
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Valèrie Leuba
July 3 – July 20, 2009
Preview: July 2, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Members Only)
Reception: July 3, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Talk: July 9, 6:30 pm
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