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Photos available.
MEDIA CONTACT: Stacia Smith
561-297-2971, ssmith@fau.edu
Hernan Bas to be Featured in
Exhibition at FAU
BOCA RATON, FL (March 2, 2004)
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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.
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