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PAINTER + POET: George Nama and Charles Simic at the Boston Athenæum
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In an exhibition curated by David Dearinger, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, The Boston Athenaeum presents PAINTER + POET: George Nama & Charles Simic. The exhibition will feature works by artist George Nama inspired by and which illuminate the poems of Charles Simic.
The collaboration between the two artists began years ago and has resulted in the exhibit which includes sculpture, etchings, gouaches and artists books from Nama. Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator who has been awarded with the Wallace Stevens Award, a Pulitzer Prize, two PEN Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship. His career has spanned the length of five decades, most recently releasing a collection of poems entitled That Little Something (2008). George Nama specializes in interpreting the works of writers, having previously tackled Yves Bonnefoy, and Alfred Brendel, and now Simic. Versatility is Nama’s forte, working in multiple mediums of create art across a spectrum of insight. His works—often featuring expressive abstracted figures—are held in major institutions such as the Boston Athenæum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library, and Yale University Art Gallery.
PAINTER + POET: George Nama and Charles Simic Feb. 10, 2010 through April 10, 2009, in the Athenæum’s Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery, located at 10 ½ Beacon Street on Beacon Hill near the State House. Admission is FREE and open to the public. Gallery hours are Mondays and Wednesdays 9 a.m. – 8 p.m., Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. For more information, call (617) 227-0270 or visit www.bostonathenaeum.org.