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Kahlil Gibran
NEW ENGLAND
SCULPTURE SERVICE
Telephone 617-884-9292
214 Arlington Street
Fax
617-884-2666
Chelsea, Massachusetts 02150
nesculpture.com
Contact: Marjee Levine
1/26/12
Tel: (617) 884-9292
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Email:
marjee@nesculpture.com
The Gallery at New England Sculpture Service is proud to announce their
current exhibition:
CELEBRATION
A retrospective collection of work by artist
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
(1922-2008) was a painter and sculptor born in Boston’s South End where
he lived all his life. A student of
Karl Zerbe at the School of the Museum
of Fine Arts, Gibran first received
acclaim as a magic realist painter in the late 1940’s when he exhibited
with emerging artists called the "Boston Expressionists". Named a
"master of materials" as both artist and restorer, Gibran turned to
sculpture in the mid-fifties.
Featuring his work in The Boston Globe
magazine, author Gregory McDonald concluded, “Removing the confusion,
the mysticism from the name Kahlil Gibran, leaves a sculptor of
extraordinary poetic power, utterly concerned with his art, with the
double nature that is utterly human, as paradoxical as himself, and, a
man with a singular future”. This artist’s insatiable curiosity and
technical prowess combined to make him an original, standing alone and
defying labels.
Recipient of two
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships in
1959 and 1960, along with a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award
in 1961, Gibran exhibited his sculpture in museums and galleries
throughout the nation. In 1964 his piece,
Young Trunk, received the Grand
Prize at the Boston Arts Festival, followed by the John Gregory Award
for Sculpture from the
National Sculpture Society and the gold
medal for excellence at the International Show of Religious Art in
Trieste, Italy.
Highlighting the rich history and artistic mastery embedded in his art,
this exhibition, aptly titled
Celebration,
is exactly that: a multi-media retrospective that celebrates Kahlil
Gibran, his work, and the fundamental nature of life that influenced
him.
Rebecca Reynolds, former Assistant to Jonathan Fairbanks, Curator
Emeritus of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine
Arts, has summarized his work, "In essence Gibran’s art mirrors his
personal search for truth, what the artist characterizes as an almost
medieval predilection for humanity’s great dramas dealing with life and
death”. This show allows us all an amazing opportunity to interact with
and experience a wide variety of Gibran’s works as part of a whole, the
combined strength of which is ethereally powerful.
Celebration
is currently on display in The Gallery at New England Sculpture Service,
Boston’s full-service art foundry. Since opening in 1991, NESS has
established itself as the only commercial art foundry in Massachusetts,
serving most New England sculptors and many from all over the United
States.
There will be a reception
Saturday,
February 25th from 2:30 -5:30 pm.
This special viewing is open to the public from Feb. 25th thru Sept. 15,
2012 and will include guided tours of the foundry describing the
lost-wax casting process.
NEW ENGLAND
SCULPTURE SERVICE
214 Arlington Street
Chelsea, MA
02150
(617) 884-9292
Please see the website for more info and
directions:
www.nesculpture.com
NOTE: There is
some parking available, but please consider public transportation (the
Chelsea stop on the Commuter Rail is less than a block from the
building).
For more on Kahlil Gibran go to his website:
http://www.kahlilgibran.org
If you would like more information about this event please call Marjee
Levine at (617) 884-9292 or email
marjee@nesculpture.com
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