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California-based mixed media artist Nancy Jo Ward is bringing her evocative portraits to the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum for Japan’s 23rd International Art Exchange Exhibition from June 15-20, 2024.
Ward creates rich, emotionally resonant figurative art using a hybrid approach that includes digital drawing, painting, and the use of gold and silver foils. Blurring the lines between pixels, paint, and algorithm, she shapes unique images that delve deep into the minds and hearts of her subjects.
Working with a lush color palette, the artist offers archival prints on aluminum, each hand-finished using acrylics, oils, and pastels. The dreamy, vibrant result is alchemic and graceful. Ward manifests poignant, vivid portraits that speak powerfully to the inner depths of her subjects’ spirits while inviting viewers to partake in an intimate and profound dialogue with her subjects. Her passion for color, texture, and movement meshes with a fusion of digital and analog techniques that push beyond conventional artistic boundaries.
Ward’s robust intersection of mediums results in hauntingly lovely works, whose delicacy and depth shape a profound, light-filled grace, one which encourages exploration and transformation within subject and viewer alike. Her images form compelling visual narratives based on contemporary female identities that express emotions ranging from loss and grief to comfort and contemplation.
For the Tokyo exhibition, she will be showing three of her mixed-media works: Taisha, Jesslyn, and Pantsuit Nation, each depicting a compelling female subject in nuanced rainbow shades.
The artist’s fluid and lustrous works will be showcased among those of 57 visual artists from the United States, including images from iconic artists Jackson Pollock and Prince Yisehak Fikre Sellassie. Ward considers it an honor to be included in a “celebration of diversity, cultural specificity, and individual expression of the human condition.” Her own work serves as an intrinsic part of this celebration.
A professor of art and design at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California, Ward received her Master of Arts with Distinction in Digital Fine Art from the University of the Arts London in 2018. Her hybrid portraiture work has been featured globally in numerous exhibitions; her experimental video Aura won an award at the 13th Concorso d’Arte Donne in Rinascita in Milan, Italy, in March of this year.
The exhibition will be held at: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1F Citizens Gallery 3, 8-36 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0007, Japan, from June 15-20. For more information about Ward and her artwork, visit NancyJoWard.com
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Located between the crystal-clear waters of the Mediterranean Sea and the iconic Casino, Monte Carlo Gems is excited to announce its worldwide debut at the esteemed Fairmont Monte Carlo on July 18th, 2024.
The international high jewelry exhibition, starring the best vintage and modern high jewelry pieces, watches, as well as emerging designers’ collections, will be held from July 18th to July 22nd at the Fairmont Monte Carlo, well-known for its position overlooking the Formula 1 circuit and the famous Monte Carlo hairpin turn.
The show dates have been strategically chosen by the founders as just before and after the show days there will be the renowned Monaco Auction Weeks, the perfect time and location to connect and network with potential clients within the refined international community of Monte Carlo.
On the first day of the exhibition, July 18th, there will be an exclusive private preview of the show with limited access only to exhibitors’ guests and VIPs invited by the board and press. There will also be an Opening Gala with a Cocktail Reception held in the Galerie Cristal, the terrace of the show that overlooks the beautiful Mediterranean Sea.
In the following days, there will be a full-schedule program of events, conferences, and private gatherings organized by Monte Carlo Gems. Following the exclusive private opening on the 18th, the B2C show will be accessible to the public and visitors from July 19th to 22nd.
During each day of the show, there will be a full-schedule program of conferences and interviews with different specialists in the jewelry field. The Monte Carlo Experience Program has been created by the MCG marketing team to let brands and clients mingle at cocktails, private gatherings, and dinners at prime locations to enjoy the city life of Monte Carlo from the most exclusive seats.
As we literally have all spotlights on this opening premiere, we couldn’t find a better claim than “All Lights On Us!” for the launch of Monte Carlo Gems. Nonetheless, the show aims to express cinema’s timeless elegance in its golden era, paying homage to the legendary Monte Carlo’s iconic image represented in some remarkable movies like “007 Never Say Never Again” and “Monte Carlo Grand Casino.”
The founders, jewelry insiders with many years of expertise within the field, aim to bring together connoisseurs, enthusiasts, and collectors from different nationalities to create an exclusive club signed off by the exceptional Monte Carlo trademark as the only and one-of-a-kind authentic international jewelry exhibition taking center stage in the Principality of Monaco.
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