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CONTACT: Stacia Smith
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Bas to be Featured in Exhibition at FAU BOCA
RATON, FL (March 2, 2004) -- Florida Atlantic
University's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters presents Miami artist
Hernan Bas in an exhibition running from Tuesday,
March 9 through Saturday, April 10, 2004 in the Schmidt Center Gallery on FAU's
Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
There will be a reception on Saturday, March 27 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Bas
is prominent among young Miami artists who have been identified with the city's
rising presence in the contemporary art world. His work is being recognized in
New York's Whitney Art Museum's Biennial Exhibition. This museum serves as a barometer
of contemporary art in America.
Bas installation
fills the Schmidt Center Gallery. There is a projected two-channel video that
fills one corner of the gallery, a sculptural tableau in the center of the gallery,
two photographs and a single painting. The black and white images in the videos
prominently feature a scene at the beach with several young men wading and swimming
with makeshift shark fins strapped to their backs. These humorous images are interspersed
with portrait-like images of the artist and other androgynous young men. The ocean
theme of the video is referred to in the installation's single painting which
features an octopus and sea shells.
During
the last four years, Bas has had four solo exhibitions at the Frederic Snitzer
Gallery in Miami, a solo exhibition at North Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art,
and has been presented in several Florida and New York City gallery exhibitions.
The Schmidt Center Gallery
is open to the public Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from
1 to 5 p.m. Group tours are encouraged and can be arranged at alternative hours.
The University Galleries 2003/04 programs are made possible in part by Florida
Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, Florida Arts Council and the
National Endowment for the Arts; FAU Student Government, through student activity
fees, and contributions from Friends of the University Galleries. For further
information, call the University Galleries at 561-297-2966 or visit www.fau.edu/galleries. -FAU-
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