A Little Grey For Color

Plains Art Museum</a> and the Red River Valley Writing Project have partnered to serve as the state affiliate for the Scholastic Art &amp; Writing Awards. The mission of the Awards is to identify teenagers (grades 7-12) with exceptional artistic and literary talent, and bring their remarkable work to a national audience.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>" />

Labovitz is a body of work by noted international and Minnesota-based artist Anne Labovitz. The exhibition includes sculpture, installation, drawing, and public participatory works created specifically for the <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/A-Little-Grey-For-Color/"/Organization/Plains-Art-Museum/15E28FA42549BFEB">Plains Art Museum</a>. These artworks are an examination and experimentation with light and color, creating installations of visual optimism. Each work reflects extensive research and interviews with health care professionals from the Fargo, West Fargo, Moorhead area. Labovitz’s process is manifested through the materiality, intense mark-making, abstracted text, and precise and intuitive color selection.</p><p>The interconnection of health and art provides space for creativity and the opportunity for us to consider ideas of wellness and emotive responses. The artist assembled the exhibition to be an active place for creativity, contemplation and conversation. Light, words, voices and text become mediums in the work.</p><p>The artworks are infused with words spoken by interviewees. This approach requires attentive and meditative concentration on and with the subject. Whole body listening, or what Labovitz calls Relational Listening, is a creative practice, rooted in the idea that it is a basic human need to be heard and feel seen. This process fosters a dynamic of emotional intimacy that is both provocative and visceral. The interconnection of health and art provided space for creativity and allowed Labovitz to consider ideas about wellness and how the audience might respond emotively to art and each other. Keywords gleaned from the research and interviews include connection, community, hope, love, and rest.&nbsp; These words can be found embedded in the artworks.</p><p>In what has become a signature element of many of Labovitz’s exhibitions, visitors will be offered an opportunity to participate and contribute to the content of the exhibit. The participatory Well-Being Wall II invites visitors to create their own artwork and exhibit it on the large grid wall.</p><p>This exhibition created specifically for the Plains Art Museum, will be informed by interviews with local healthcare professionals and organizations as well as creative research into the synthesis of Creativity and health. In addition to her solo exhibition, Labovitz large-scale, site-specific installation in the Ruth and Seymour Landfield Atrium will be unveiled.</p><p><br></p>" />