Tell Me Another Story, a Viewing Room from the K. Caraccio Collection

 I had the privilege to curate a Viewing Room from the K. Caraccio Collection. Tell Me Another Story

Curated by Nadia Martinez

Works by Vladimir Adreenkov, Arun Bose, Isabel Bigelow, Lamar Briggs, Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, Kathy Caraccio, Hugh Kepets, Stephen Lorber, Takahiro Maruno, Louise Nevelson, and Doris Seidler.

This selection of prints from 1954 to 2017 walks a fine line between figurative and abstraction, where colors, shapes, textures, and compositions create narratives, allowing our imagination to construct our own stories.

A door that just closed or it’s about to open, a full moon, or a cold afternoon. Would he cross to the other side? What is behind that opening?

Visit the Viewing Room HERE https://www.kcaracciocollection.com/tellmeastory

Catalog Here

Curatorial Project: Together Exhibition

I was one of the recipients of the Connecticut Artists Respond Grant Program supported by the Connecticut Office of the Arts.


The Connecticut Office of the Arts recognizes that artists help through challenging times and is committed to investing in artists' ability to provide respite through inspiration, connection, and education. The Connecticut Artists Respond Grant Program provided funding to artists and teaching artists to support the creation and presentation of free and accessible on-line arts-based experiences, learning opportunities, and services to audiences across Connecticut - and beyond - using the World Wide Web.


I created an open call for artists for a virtual exhibition titled Together, and the selected artists were invited to participate in a workshop.

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Exhibition Catalog Here

TOGETHER

Virtual Exhibition

September 3 to October 1, 2020

Curated by Nadia Martinez

During these past months, we have experienced the power of coming together and staying together while staying apart. The artwork selected for this exhibition express in different ways unity, connection, integration, and togetherness.


Together
Sometimes it’s a collaboration
Sometimes it’s is a tribute to someone you admire or care for
Sometimes it’s a necessity
Sometimes is something that we see and make us think of unity and togetherness
Sometimes are the circumstances
Sometimes are the connections we make
Sometimes is a wish
Sometimes it’s so much more.

The Exhibition is made possible with the support of the Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts.

More information here http://www.nowaboutart.com/news/togethervirtualexhibition

Curatorial Project - Street Level

Street Level
October 25, 2018 - January 18, 2019

Opening reception Monday, Oct 29, 5-7pm

Maritime Garage Gallery
11 N Water St. Norwalk, CT

“Street Level ” brings to life the notion that public art can transforms walls, buildings, and neighborhoods into outdoor galleries. Local artists exhibiting include Bobbie Bernstein of Westport, Tara Blackwell of Stamford, Sonia Bombart of Weston, Milan Chilla of Rowayton, David Kaplan of Greenwich, Al Coyote Weiner of Fairfield, and Gregory Ziebell of Norwalk.

Press Release

View exhibition's catalog Here

The Maritime Garage Gallery is part of the Parking Authority’s “Art in Parking Places” placemaking initiative, an effort to support art in parking spaces.

Curatorial Project - A Reverence for Nature

A Reverence for Nature
June 13 - September 28, 2018

Opening reception Wednesday, June 13, 5-7pm

Maritime Garage Gallery
11 N Water St. Norwalk, CT


Worth A Thousand Words, curated by Nadia Martinez, features works of art that communicate complex ideas in images. The 32 pieces in the exhibit show artists’ stories, emotions, concerns, memories, and ideas about life, nature, hope, world events, humanity, etc. Exhibiting artists include local artists Day Moore from Milford, Bobbie Bernstein of Westport, Gregory Ziebell of Norwalk and Carol M. Battin from Stamford.

Press Release
View exhibition's catalog HERE

The Maritime Garage Gallery is part of the Parking Authority’s “Art in Parking Places” placemaking initiative, an effort to support art in parking spaces.

Curatorial Project - Worth a Thousand Words

 

Worth A Thousand Words
January 29 - May 11

Opening reception Monday, Jan. 29, 5-7pm

Maritime Garage Gallery
11 N Water St. Norwalk, CT

Worth A Thousand Words, curated by Nadia Martinez, features works of art that communicate complex ideas in images. The 32 pieces in the exhibit show artists’ stories, emotions, concerns, memories, and ideas about life, nature, hope, world events, humanity, etc. Exhibiting artists include local artists Day Moore from Milford, Bobbie Bernstein of Westport, Gregory Ziebell of Norwalk and Carol M. Battin from Stamford.

The Maritime Garage Gallery is part of the Parking Authority’s “Art in Parking Places” placemaking initiative, an effort to support art in parking spaces.

Press Release

View exhibition's catalog HERE

Curatorial Project - Memories of Our Town

Curatorial Project 2017

Memories of Our Town

Sept. 26, 2017, to January 5, 2018

Opening reception Tuesday, Sept. 26, 5-7pm

Maritime Garage Gallery

11 N Water St. Norwalk, CT

Opening at the City of Norwalk Parking Authority’s Maritime Garage Gallery, opening Tuesday, Sept. 26, 5-7pm. 

The show, curated by Nadia Martinez, features a variety of mediums that represents the unique memories of the place we call home

Press release

Exhibition's catalog

Curatorial Project - Indecipherable Messages

Indecipherable Messages

May 20 - June 18, 2017
Curated by Nadia Martinez

Miranda Arts Project Space
6 N Pearl St. Suite 404 E
Port Chester, NY 10573

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 20th, 2017
6:00 - 8:00 pm

Press Release

Miranda Art Project Space is pleased to present Indecipherable Messages, a group exhibition curated by Nadia Martinez, featuring works by Teresa Waterman, Esther Rosa, Michelle Bratsafolis, and Kathryn Cameron. They are working across medium including paintings, mixed media, sculptures, and installations.

Every artwork in this exhibition is a form of expression that reflects a rotation of ideas, beliefs, concerns or exchanges among all those things within an artist’s mind. At first, the viewer might not be able to find meaning behind the marks or gestures that comprise an artwork or understand the circumstances that gave rise to its creation. The artist’s hand does not necessarily reveal a particular structure or order; however, a combination of intention and instinct often result in balance, a harmony of contrast, and rhythm within each piece. This process, unique to each artist, is a like a hidden language or code of expression; Indecipherable Messages whose meanings can be revealed only by their creators.

Curatorial project - Exchanges on Paper

Exchanges on Paper

Curated by Nadia Martinez

March 20th to April 28th, 2017


Miranda Art Project Space
6 N Pearl St. Suite 404 E
Port Chester, NY 10573


Reception: Saturday, April 15th, 2017
6:00 - 8:00 pm

Miranda Art Project Space is pleased to present Exchanges on Paper, a group exhibition curated by Nadia Martinez, featuring works by Teresa Waterman, Esther Rosa, Michelle Bratsafolis, and Kathryn Cameron. All the artists in this exhibition work with paper in various forms, using different techniques to bring their visions to fruition.


Exchanges on Paper highlights the significant role and variety of forms paper has taken over time in the world of fine arts. This show features a range of disciplines including drawing, alternative photography, sculpture, and painting. Each discipline is represented through the use of various media and techniques including encaustic, cyanotype, metal leaf gilding, casting from paper pulp, and painting with mixed media. Age-old methods are combined with contemporary sensibilities so that ideas and materials converge, resulting in a transformation of traditional media into modern artistic expressions. Time is the invisible thread that unifies all the artworks in the exhibition. Its passage is a catalyst acting upon the materials chosen at the start of each process, nudging them forward, sometimes resulting in a wholesale change of the raw materials used, and sometimes effecting a more subtle alteration.

Press Release

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Louder Than Words - Exhibition Catalog

This is the catalog of my first curatorial exhibition in NYC. Louder Than Words brought together a group of 17 artists from 12 countries who use different media to communicate their emotions, concerns, memories and ideas about life, nature, hope, decay, politics, world events, and humanity. The pieces contained in this exhibition spoke for themselves, louder than any words that could describe them.

Flying Colors - Zorya Fine Art and YMCA event

Zorya Fine Art most recent exhibit, “Flying Colors,” and the collection of Zorya Nadia prints inspired by ancestral Ukrainian embroidery and curated by artist Nadia Martinez.
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Exhibition: Louder Than Words

Curatorial Project 2017

Louder Than Words

Pop-up exhibition

Saturday, January 28, 2017

1 PM - 5 PM

121 Varick St, 

New York, NY 10013

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Louder Than Words brings together an international team of artists who use different mediums to express their emotions, concerns, memories and ideas about life, nature, hope, decay, politics, world events and humanity. The pieces contained in this exhibition speak for themselves, louder than any words that could describe them.

Press release

Artists:
Touba Alipour, Kakeru Asai, Ghislaine Boreel, Dennis Bourke, Michelle Bratsafolis, Walter Brown, Kathryn Cameron, Monika Camillucci, Osmeli Delgado, Michele Rave Grassani, Micaela Kramer, Hazel Manheimer, Cecilia Nelson, Esther Rosa, Poramit Thantapalit, Sarah Tse, Teresa Waterman

Images left to right: Kakeru Asai, Micaela Kramer, Michele Rave Grassani, Esther Rosa, Sarah Tse, Poramit Thantapalit

Flying Colors, Ilona Sochynsky

My curatorial debut, Flying Colors and exhibition of paintings by Ilona Sochynsky at Zorya Fine Art, Greenwich, CT.

Sochynsky invites you to let your imagination go with her new series of paintings titled "Fugues."

The juxtaposition of colors and shapes helps to create an illusion that stimulates the eye and the mind. Like individual melodies that form a larger musical composition--a fugue or a symphony--her paintings engage in an exciting dialogue, building on the foundations of contrast, rhythm, balance, and harmony.  Each piece is like a small window that explores a different world or possibility, each one is an emphatic achievement.

Flying Colors is an exhibition that combines strength and perseverance. We are putting our colors up to signify our triumphs and victories.

I have currently embarked on a new series of circle paintings titled “Fugues”. Using the circular form I attempt to interweave fragments and textures into a contrapuntal composition, whose basic structure consists of themes stated successively in different voices. With these paintings I aspire to create a state of harmony and to provoke a dreamlike state of altered consciousness in the viewer.  -  Ilona Sochynsky