Biggs Museum to host opening reception for three exhibits Feb. 2
The Biggs Museum of American Art will open three provocative exhibitions with a public reception from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 2.
The leading exhibition in this powerful trio is the museum's first one-woman show of works by Lewes-based artist Aina Nergaard-Nammack. The exhibition, titled My Countries, My Composers, explores the artist's interpretation of musical scores of key classical music composers from the three countries where she has lived: first Spain, then Norway and now the United States. The artist creates large abstract paintings influenced by the sounds and rhythms of her musical selections. Composers she channels within this body of work include: Aaron Copland, Isaac Albeniz, Enrique Granados and Edvard Grieg. This exhibition will be on view through Sunday, March 25.
Adjacent to Nergaard-Nammack's show, the museum will present its first group exhibition of works created by African-American artists of Greater Dover and Kent County. The exhibition, African American History Live, is a focal point of the Dover Citywide Black History Celebration taking place in several locations throughout the city during February. This celebration is hosted by the Delaware State News, with partners from throughout the county. The show will feature approximately two dozen artists in a wide variety of media including: painting, video, photography, fiber, sculpture and works on paper. The artists also represent a diversity of professional backgrounds ranging from Delaware State University faculty to students, and from craft artists to second-career painters. This exhibition will be on view until at least Sunday, March 4.
The third exhibition will be on display on the museum's third floor through Sunday, April 22. Performances: the Brandywine Photo Collective will showcase artist interpretations of the same photographic images. The iconic photographer Ansel Adams said every photograph is a performance in which light exposure, composition, color and any number of other tiny details can be arranged by the artist to create an original expression. In Performances, nine artist members of the Brandywine Photo Collective will interpret four photographic images through digital manipulation, post processing and creative printing. The exhibition then compares each artist's evolution of the members' source imagery.
"The Biggs Museum has a long tradition of cultivating the talents of individual artists and artist groups throughout the region," said museum Curator Ryan Grover. "We partner with hundreds of artists a year to showcase the most talented and diverse perspectives of the region."
This exhibition will be accompanied by a variety of innovative hands-on activities for families and children in the museum's drop-in art studio, the Child HELP Foundation Gallery. For more information, go to www.biggsmuseum.org or call 302-674-2111.
