About the show

Eyedart studio gallery invites art lovers and art haters to see an unorthodox exhibit in downtown Goshen. Regardless of ones interest or indifference to art, the exhibit is worth the visit.

“Contemporary American and Italian Artists on Paper”, featuring 42 works by 21 artists from Italy and the United States, offers a rare chance to view art created by internationally-renowned, master-status artists.

After an eight-week pause in Goshen, the traveling exhibit will voyage to galleries in Milan and Rome, Italy. Eyedart’s opening reception will take place on Friday, December 11th, from 7 – 9:30 p.m.

The exhibit is the brainchild of Scott L. Hatt, artist and curator from the Spurious Fugitive in South Bend, Indiana, and David Lester Learn. David spent over fifteen years living and traveling in Italy, cultivating relationships with some of the most respectable artists and galleries in the country

While it may seem that Midwestern and Italian artists could not be more disparate, Hatt and Learn saw more connections than divisions between the two groups. “In the twenty-first century, artists around the world are dealing with the impact of globalization on media, art, and technology,” says Hatt. “The exhibit exploits these similarities.”

Download the show press release (80kb .pdf file)

Show highlights

Pasquale ‘Nini’ Santoro (Italian, b. 1933, Rome), whose name is less familiar in Northern Indiana, is well known in art history books and in major art hubs throughout the world. Many museums around the world house his work including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Two other Italian artists with advanced careers are Aldo Bertolini and Marisa Facchinetti, both of whom have a concurrent show at the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, California.

On the American side, the show features some heavy-hitters including Fred Stonehouse (American, b. 1960, Wisconsin), Adam Benjamin Fung (American, b. 1979, Washington), and Timothy Vermeulen (American, b. 1960, New Jersey).

Stonehouse, a Milwaukee native, has shown his work all over the globe, and has shown at locations all over the States this summer, including the Philip Slein Gallery, in St Louis.

The Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, in Chicago, represents Adam Benjamin Fung.

A traveling show

The exhibit’s travels started in October, 2009, at the Thaddeus C. Gallery in La Porte, Indiana.

In December, 2009, the exhibition opens at the Eyedart studio gallery in Goshen, Indiana, and is on display through January, 2010.

Following the Eyedart visit, the exhibit travels to Italy! First to Associazione Culturale Spazio Tadini in Milan, then Galleria Arte e Pensieri in Rome.

Eyedart studio gallery hours

Wednesday – Friday
11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday
11 a.m. – 4 p.m.