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January 4 - January 29, 2011
The 10th Annual Art Inter/National Art Exhibition
Public Reception: Saturday, January 8th: 5 - 8 pm.
Free and open to the public.

The artwork selected for this year's Art Inter/National Exhibition is unified by the concept that nature and human nature are intertwined by a powerful connection. For many of the artists, inspiration is drawn from the scenery of their everyday lives. For artist Dorothea Sarteschi, her work is expressed through visions of her life. "It is an emotional roller coaster of pictorial drama of the most commonplace intimacies of life -- a visual phrase in living colour." Art is a vehicle to make these everyday things into something extraordinary. Artist Katria Foster explains, "The simple things make our lives comfortable, livable, and, in the end, tell the story of who we are."

Artist Ivan de Monbrison paints in black and white to represent human beings more as shadows than as fleshy bodies. He writes, "to represent ourselves is still a mirror to our own self, and the consciousness we have of it is reflected in the very image on the surface. In a world of technology, to choose to use still a very classical medium like painting is a way to set a bridge with the past resisting the facility of technology but with the will to represent the world with a modern eye." German artist Michael Dobbelt feels that art, specifically painting, "aims to express a social and environmental justice and consciousness."

Artist Scott Nelson Foster paints lower income housing structures because "these utilitarian dwellings express most succinctly the relationship between home, society, and the land. Encaustic artist Ariela Steif writes "in medieval folklore the spaces in the margins, those which are betwixt and between - the edge of the sea, between night and day, doorways and thresholds - were thought to be dangerous regions of power and transformation. These marginal spaces are reflected in the themes that her work explores: contradictory bodies that are endlessly in the 'act of becoming'."

This year, German born artist Nadim Sabella receives the "2011 Art Inter/National Best of Show" award for his photographic works, "In a Fog." Sabella's interests in archeology and the environment inspired his current body of work. He creates photographs that transform familiar places into the strange and mysterious landscapes that come to mind when he follows the climate change debate. The individual pieces are meditations on constant change, instability and man's inability to control the elements.
February  1 - February 26, 2011
Box Heart's 2011 Artist of the Year: Chung Fanky Chak
The Boxes
Digital Collage by Chung Fanky Chak
Public Reception: Saturday, February 5th from 5 - 8pm
Free and open to the public.

Last year, Chinese artist Chung (Fanky) Chak received the "2010 Art Inter/National Best of Show" award for his digital collage works. Chak's artwork intends to illustrate stereotypes among people as well as to help him understand his new home -- the United States. As a foreigner who came to the United States in his early 20s, Chak became fascinated by imagining what happens behind the beautiful windows of Broadway in New York City. Then while visiting Hong Kong in 2003, Chak began thinking about the nature of life in large cities, particularly in his native city.

Join us for the public reception of The Boxes on Saturday, February 5th from 5 - 8pm. It is free and open to the public.
2011 Participating Artists:
Exhibition Images:
View gallery images of this year's Art Inter/National Exhibition!

Join us for the public reception!
The Art Inter/National Exhibition: Saturday, January 8th,
5 - 8 pm.
Free and open to the public!
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