An Exhibit of Works by New Masters

Main Gallery + Drawing Room + Parallel Space Gallery

Opening Friday, August 13, 6-9p.m.
Exhibit run: August 13 - September 10, 2010



This 4th Annual Master Pieces sets out to present the best works by the best new Masters in 2010.

An annual offering, the Master Pieces project continues to reveal the intensity and professionalism of students working towards their terminal academic degree in the field of art or design.

 This is a chance for the community to engage with and better understand master artists at the start of their careers, to reach across a sometimes impossibly wide chasm between society at large and high-end academic pursuit in the visual arts. Manifest sets out to provide a neutral-ground sampling of important and very current creative research.

Often the most exceptional work comes out of these artists' immersion in their culture of study and intellectual pursuit. Manifest's goal, therefore, is to select works that in the truest sense of the word are contemporary masterpieces - works that set the standard of quality that the artist is expected to maintain throughout his or her professional career. The exhibit catalog for this show will serve as a visual documentation of these artists' own benchmarks for years to come.

This 4th annual Master Pieces was open to submissions by current graduate students, or those who received their MFA/MA degree after July 2009.

This will be the first time an exhibit at Manifest spans all three exhibit spaces. (The gallery was increased to 1000 square feet of exhibition space in September 2009 with the addition of the Parallel Space.) Nearly one-half of the works in Master Pieces 4 will be sculptural in nature. Other works include printmaking, painting, drawing and photography. Six of the artists are current graduate students. The remaining seven received their Master's degree earlier this year.

For this exhibit 113 artists representing 65 colleges or universities in 28 states and three countries submitted 303 works for consideration. Twenty-seven works by 13 artists were selected for presentation in all three galleries at Manifest.


OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, August 13, 6-9 p.m.
(refreshments will be served, sponsored by Café MoCA, What's For Dinner, and the Echo Restaurant)

WALK on WOODBURN: The restaurants, shops, and galleries on historic Woodburn Avenue will also be open during the evening of the opening reception.