FREEDOM STORY

FREEDOM STORY

 

Past, Present, Future

May 7th to June 12th, 2018

Opening reception: Thursday, May 10th from 5 to 7 pm 

         

 

 

Basha Ruth Nelson

www.basharuthnelson.com 

 

 

 “…I’m delighted to be able to have your portfolio in our files…”  wrote renowned architect Cesar Pelli

 

 

Sculptor and installation artist Basha Ruth Nelson received her Master of Arts Degree from New York University [NYU]. Her sculptures and works on paper are exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, and are held in public and private collections including the Hudson Valley Center For Contemporary Art [HVCCA]/Riverfront Green Park, Peekskill, NY; Woodstock Artists Association and Museum [WAAM], Woodstock, NY; Brooklyn Art Library, NY; Coral Springs Museum & Cultural Center, Coral Springs, FL; New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, NYC; Woodstock Historical Society, Woodstock, NY; US Embassy, Nassau, Bahamas.

 

Her solo exhibitions include the Noho Gallery, 60 Washington Square East Galleries and the Julio Valdez Project Space in New York City, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY, The Desanti Plaza Public Sculpture Project, Hartsdale, NY, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY, Pritzker Studio & Gallery, Highland NY, Flemington Gallery of the Arts, Flemington, NJ and US Embassy, Nassau, Bahamas. Group exhibits in Florida include North Miami Museum and Art Center, Continuum Gallery, Grove House, in Palm Beach and Norton Gallery & Museum of the Palm Beaches. In New York, the Woodstock Historical Society, Woodstock, Akin Museum, Pawling and Hammond Museum, North Salem. Among international group exhibits, her work was showcased at the NY Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, the Biennale in Florence, Italy, the Matinee Art Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas and Procida, Italy.

 

Awards include the Lorenzo Il Magnifico Sculpture Award from the Biennale in Florence, Italy and the Welfred McGibben from the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, FL. Her work was published in The Sourcebook of Architectural & Interior Art, 20th Edition; New Art International; Gallery Guide; Who’s Who in American Art (since 1991); numerous newspapers and magazines from local to international. She lives in Ulster County and her studio is at the Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory in Poughkeepsie, NY.

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                      

FREEDOM STORY

Past, Present, Future

its abstract idea, its concrete necessity in current times.

 

Basha Ruth Nelson creates art as an integral way to make visible her feelings about freedom and to find those feelings in others. Nelson presents this exhibit in search and discovery of thoughts, feelings, and emotions both personal and social.
She separates the materials in her work from their common uses, thrusting them into new relationships, new concepts; making rules and breaking them.   
Nelson invites visitors to be active participants within her art installation by expressing her own experiences, their ideas and dreams of freedo.  By inviting people to be creators with her, she breaches the wall between artist and viewer.

 

She opens the dialogue around the past, present and future of freedom.

What happened? What did we learn? What do we do?

We say, “never again” … instead let’s say “never again” and…this is what I can do.

 

One person at a time,

One action at a time

Creation a better world.

 

Creating our Freedom Story.