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A CONVERSATION WITH HEATHER HUTCHISON AND BARBARA ROSE at 11 JANE STREET SOUTH GALLERY, SAUGERTIES NY Sunday, August 18, 2019 6:30pm Amidst the exhibition “Heather Hutchison: In Praise Of Shadows” at 11 Jane Street Art Center South Gallery in Saugerties NY, world renowned art historian, art critic and curator Barbara Rose will discuss with artist Heather Hutchison her most recent works, which are somewhere between painting and sculpture and incorporate unconventional media. These minimalistic works are inspired by, and refer back to the ever-changing and fragile, yet sublime, state of the natural world. This new body of work represents a departure in media and methods for the artist, who for over 30 years, has utilized ambient light as her primary material, and is now amplifying that light with a combination of new translucent and reflective materials. Barbara Rose is a curator and has published many works of art history and art criticism. Most recently the books which accompany the European museum exhibitions Rose curated, “Monochromes From Malevich To The Present”, and “Painting After Post Modernism Belgium-USA”. In 1967, Rose wrote the important work of art historical scholarship, “American Art Since 1900: A Critical History”, followed by, "The Golden Age of Dutch Painting" (1969); "Lee Krasner"(1983); and "Autocritique: Essays on Art and Anti-Art" (1989). Barbara Rose has published seminal pieces of art criticism, including: “Abstract Illusionism”, Artforum, October 1967; the essay “ABC Art”, in Art in America, where she described the fundamental characteristics of minimal art. The College Art Association of America awarded Rose the Distinguished Art Criticism Award in 1966 and 1969. Her accomplishments as editor, museum director, and producer of films about artists span decades. She currently contributes to The Brooklyn Rail, as well as other International publications.   A Saugerties resident for over 20 years, Heather Hutchison’s work is held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Hutchison has had many solo gallery exhibitions and has been included in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, the Montclair Art Museum, the Smithsonian, and the Knoxville Museum of Art, as well as having been included in the 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC in 1995, where she first met Barbara Rose, who was on a review panel there. Hutchison has been a recipient of the Gottlieb Foundation Individual Artist grant (2019, 2011), the Pollock-Krasner award (2012) and a SOS Grant from NYFA (2009). Her work has been discussed in The New York Times, Artnews, Art in America, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and other fine publications and media. ABOUT  11 JANE STREET 11 Jane Street Art Center is a fully renovated artist-owned 19th Century brick warehouse dedicated to mid-career artists creating new work and works in progress, artist residencies, performances, exhibitions, community projects, lectures and classes. Founder and director Jennifer Hicks. 11 Jane St. Art Center: art incubated!  email [email protected] www.11JaneStreet.com https://www.facebook.com/11janest/ This solo exhibition is guest curated by Cross Contemporary Art at 11 Jane Street's South Gallery. Gallery Hours: Sat and Sun. 12-5pm or by appointment: 845-399-9751