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February Issue 2003
Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC, Features Exhibition by Nancy Burson
From Feb. 9 through Apr. 20, 2003, the Weatherspoon Art Museum of UNC-Greensboro in Greensboro, NC, will host the exhibit, Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson. The Weatherspoon is the final stop of a national tour. The exhibition is a mid-career retrospective survey of Burson's photographic and media work, which addresses fundamental questions on perception, identity, beauty, and race. Featured will be more than 100 photographs and multimedia artworks spanning the artist's 20-year career, including the celebrated computer installations The Age Machine, The Human Race Machine, and The Couples Machine. These machines enable viewers to scan their own faces and create digitally altered images of themselves at a different age, as a different race, with a disability, and with other composite variations. In a manner much more personal than simply art about race, these experiential projects engage viewers with startling, sometimes eerie, altered images of themselves.
Burson began to develop interactive artwork in 1982, and ever since, her work has appealed to popular and scientific audiences as well as to the contemporary art world. Her revolutionary computer program (which she patented in 1981 and is still in use today) has enabled the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to help locate kidnapping victims. Burson will speak about her work at the exhibition on Feb. 9 at 2pm.
Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson has been co-organized by the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, and Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston. It is made possible, in part, with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation.To date, the exhibition has received national media coverage on MSNBC (cable news network and web site) and National Public Radio, as well as local television and newspaper coverage in New York City and Houston, TX. The exhibition should attract a broad cross section of educational and ethnic backgrounds, and age groups.
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