Newtown Yardley, PA Announcement
Making Portraits Exhibit, Anne Reid '72 Art Gallery at PDS Sept 9 - Oct 2
Andre Veloux, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, legos
Princeton, NJ: Making Portraits is a new public exhibition in the Anne Reid '72 Art Gallery at Princeton Day School featuring eight contemporary artists working in portraiture: Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura, Ray Brown, Quinton Covington '21, Mario Moore, James Thomas, Andre Veloux, Shoshannah White and Anna Williams '15.
Mario Moore, who received an M.F.A. in painting from the Yale School of Art in 2013, and was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University during the 2018-2019 academic year. We are honored to have on loan at Princeton Day School a self-portrait by Mr. Moore. Currently, he has an exhibition at Princeton University of portraits of blue-collar workers on the Princeton campus, which he created during his Hodder fellowship. The portraits compel dialog about social justice, perceptions and realities of individuals in our society and their representation in American painting. His work builds on themes from Thelma Golden's groundbreaking exhibit in 1994 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, "Black Men: Representation of Masculinity in Contemporary Art," which showcased 29 artists including Leon Golub, Jean-Michael Basquiat and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Shoshannah White is an interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, ME, who received her B.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design. The Anne Reid '72 Art Gallery is fortunate to have on loan sixteen of her photographic and encaustic portraits, some of which have been featured in The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes by Christopher James. Her evocative and environmentally-based art works have been awarded grants and funding through organizations including the Taconic Foundation; Arts New Brunswick, Canada; the Kindling Fund, a SPACE Gallery re-granting program funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation' and the Maine Arts Commission, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
White has completed private and public commissions including eight public art installations – often incorporating photography into architectural and sculptural form. She has had numerous exhibitions nationally since 1969, including work in exhibitions at the Portland Museum of Art, Whitney Artworks in Portland, ME, Bates College and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. White is represented by Corey Daniels Gallery in Wells, ME, Pilar Graves in Los Angeles, CA, and by Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto, Canada.
Andre Veloux is a British artist who creates captivating two and three-dimensional wall hanging artworks through Lego™ bricks. His feminist-themed work expresses social commentary on gender, gender equality, women's rights and women's empowerment. The Anne Reid '72 Gallery is thrilled to feature two large Veloux portraits of Michelle Obama and Ruth Bader-Ginsburg in this exhibit. Veloux's art is in private collections worldwide and has been shown in numerous exhibitions in the US, including SCOPE Miami Beach. He recently began a series of live art events, the first of which took place at Princeton University earlier this year. He is represented by the Krause Gallery in New York City.
The five other portrait artists in the exhibition are Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura, Ray Brown, James Thomas, PDS alumna Anna Williams '15 and current PDS student Quinton Covington '21.
The exhibit at the Anne Reid '72 Art Gallery at Princeton Day School, 650 Great Road, Princeton, NJ, runs from September 9 through October 2, 2019. The gallery is free and open to the public during hours when school is in session. A reception open to the public will be held on Friday, September 13 from 6:00-7:15pm.
Princeton Day School is an independent PreK-Grade 12 school on a 106-acre campus in Princeton, enrolling about 950 day students who attend from across the central NJ and nearby PA region.
Please contact Director of Communications Melanie Shaw at 609-924-6700 x1280 with any questions or email mshaw@pds.org.
