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Some things are binary: black and white, sea and sky, night and day. Some things aren’t binary: gray, horizons, twilight. Show us work that explores, in any media and all subjects that live in either the binary or nonbinary spheres.” Entries are open to all original 2-D or 3-D artwork. MFA will display selected works in their online Curve Gallery from April 15 through May 31, 2020. Show Chairs: Wil Scott and Richard Niewerth.
The Wallace Collection, London, London
A specialist in French painting, Dr Yuriko Jackall joined the Wallace Collection in 2018 from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC where she has been Assistant Curator of French Paintings since 2011. Her research focuses on materials and techniques in the eighteenth century, the history of collecting and formation of taste, and the art of Jean-Baptiste Greuze. In autumn 2017, she curated the acclaimed exhibition, Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures. This project was the first exhibition to focus solely on this aspect of Fragonard’s production and the first to unite the fantasy figures with the recently discovered drawing that elucidates them. She also co-curated an exhibition on Hubert Robert, France’s preeminent painter of ruins and architecture, at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, in the winter of 2016 and at the National Gallery of Art later that year. In summer 2017, she was curator of America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting, bringing together loans from forty-eight American museum collections across twenty-five states.
I would like to thank the Maryland Federation of Art for inviting me to consider this fascinating show. As the juror for ?Binary¿Nonbinary?, I had the great pleasure of considering an extraordinary array of submissions across a broad array of media, from black and white and color photography to collage to painting to sculpture. Addressing concepts of the opposite and the in-between was undoubtedly difficult and I applaud all of the applicants for their creative, flexible, and highly personal responses. The works that I selected challenged me and opened up new ways of thinking about this central theme. As fate would have it, I finalized this selection in self-isolation at a time when we are all faced with numerous challenges in our daily and professional lives, challenges to which artists are perhaps more vulnerable than most. Right now, it is all the more rewarding to see how art can incite us to engage with complex issues, to rethink received notions, and to reshape our perspective on the world around us. The artist’s voice is truly a powerful thing. It has been delight to discover such clear and assured voices — and to highlight them in Annapolis — over the course of this process.