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Rider University Art Gallery Hosts George Nick Exhibit

Works by painter George Nick will be on display at Rider University's Lawrence Township campus between Nov. 3 and Dec. 11.

Editor's Note: The following is a news release issued by Rider University.

The Rider University Art Gallery will present an exhibit by painter George Nick, entitled “The Upside Down Wind” Thursday, Nov. 3 through Sunday, Dec. 11.

An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 3, from 5 to 7 p.m.  Gallery Director Harry I. Naar will lead an artist’s talk on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m.  Admission is free.
 
A nationally recognized realist painter, George Nick graduated from the Cleveland Institute, the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the Art Students League and Yale. His work is in numerous collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

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The writer John Updike has written that George Nick’s work is “…unfailingly surprising in its subject matter - shop fronts, underpasses, automobiles, rusting locomotives, his own living room - yet heroically constant in its unfussy order of representation. He paints what he sees, and what he doesn’t see he doesn’t paint.”

The exhibit’s title comes from the line “the upside down wind” from the song “Something’s Burning, Baby” on Bob Dylan’s album Empire Burlesque.  Nick has said that it relates to his sense of isolation as the first generation of his family born in the United States and as a representational artist during the years when Abstract Expressionism was in full bloom.  “How does an upside down wind act,” he says, “I don’t know, but it certainly moves differently than other winds.

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The Rider University Art Gallery is located in the Bart Luedeke Center on Rider’s campus at 2083 Lawrence Rd. (Route 206) in Lawrence Township.

The gallery is open Tuesday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday noon to 4 p.m.  It will be closed the week of Thanksgiving.  To learn more visit www.rider.edu/artgallery or call (609) 895-5588.

This exhibition is funded in part by a grant from the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Department of State and PNC Bank.

To learn more about this exhibit go to www.rider.edu/artgallery.


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