Friday, June 26, 8pm--Big Orbit Gallery presents MONSTERS OF NATURE AND DESIGN 111, a performance by CRAIG SMITH (London, UK) and COLIN BEATTY (Boston, MA) with GARY NICKARD, REINHARD REITZENSTEIN and THE VORES. MND III, which takes place on the grounds of the Bruchfield-Penney Art Center, coincides with the closing of Craig Smith's exhibition, Training Manual for Relational Art, currently on display at Big Orbit Gallery (through June 28).
Craig Smith is a London-based media artist whose art practice and research focuses on the process, aesthetics, and ethics of human-to-human interactivity in contemporary art. Smith’s practice includes the production of photography, performance art, video, writing and lectures. He has been featured at an international range of venues including the PS1MOMA Contemporary Art Institute, The Tate Modern, The George Eastman House, The Hudson River Museum and galleries including Galerie Schuster Photo (Berlin), RARE Art (New York), The Kent Gallery and White Columns (New York).
Colin Beatty is an artist and healthcare consultant—currently, as the US Healthcare Provider Practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ and is based in Boston. Colin obtained his M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, additionally holds a Maters degree in Fine Arts from Stanford University, an EMT certification from UCLA medical, was a studio participant of the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, and has been an exhibiting artist of a range of media including painting, sculpture, installation, ongoing participation in works organized by Craig Smith, and more recently, self production of parafictional performance work in such venues as banking institutions, government healthcare agencies, and national regulatory groups. Colin's hobbies include doing well on standardized tests, thinking, drawing with pencils, and watching Craig find lost keys.
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