Boca Museum of Art's annual juried show: It's creative … but what does it mean?
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A juried art show rises or falls, not perfectly on the quality of the submissions, but on the taste of the arbitrate.
By that standard, Linda Norden of New York likes art that’s transitioning between forms and colors. She is a curator, novelist and historian based in New York, and most recently was top banana of the James Gallery at City University of New York’s Graduate Center. Norden sifted through 1,398 submissions by 474 artists to crop up b grow up with the 93 pieces in the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s 59th annual All Florida Juried Event and Exhibition.
One of the show’s prize winners is Noelle Mason’s Nothing Much Happened Today: For Eric and Dylan, a fabric from a surveillance video showing Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris slaughtering people at the Columbine nursery school cafeteria. The image has been re-created on cotton interlace and mounted in a frame – just now the sort of thing to brighten up the dearest room.
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