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Artist Reception: "Nature Revisited" at littlebigspace

In its inaugural exhibition littlebigspace is pleased to present Nature Revisited, a group exhibition of three accomplished artists, whose work uniquely references the natural world through an unorthodox approach to sculpture. 
 
Mathieu Gregoire creates large public projects and intimate temporary installations with found and fabricated objects. He has exhibited nationally and has permanent works at the California Center for the Arts, Portland’s Waterfront Park and, as a team member, at Denver’s Mile High Stadium. Gregoire has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Gregoire has also managed the commissioning and acquisition of many permanent works at the University of California San Francisco’s new Mission Bay campus, as well as for the Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego, where he is a Lecturer in Visual Arts.

Helen Lessick is an artist and arts catalyst working in permanent, temporary and ephemeral media. An artist of ideas, Lessick has received fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Bonnie Bronson Foundation and grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation and Art Matters, Inc. She has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. Lessick’s public art commissions are seen in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and Hollywood. Her artists’ books have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, Getty Research Institute and Sackner Archive for Visual and Concrete Poetry in Miami Beach. She writes and consults on public art policy, programs and collections across the country. 

Carol Newborg has been exhibiting installations and wall-based work inspired by natural forms for over 30 years in California and beyond. Her most recent exhibits include installations in Berkeley, and at the Marin Arts Gallery and Gallery Route One in Pt. Reyes, an artist-in-residency at the de Young, and installations at the SFMOMA Artist Gallery. She has taught in community arts, including prisons, schools and Oakland Children's Hospital, and co-organized a statewide art exhibit which opened on Alcatraz in August featuring work from the Prison Arts Project at San Quentin and Arts-in-Corrections.

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Nature Revisited

Mathieu Gregoire, Helen Lessick, and Carol Newborg

September 10 through October 8, 2011
Opening Saturday September 10, 3 to 6 pm
Open by appointment / contact: littlebigspace@gmail.com 

littlebigspace 
 is an alternative space for the visual arts dedicated to presenting work by artists from various locales.
1341 Thousand Oaks Blvd. 
Albany, CA 94706 
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