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Steven Salzman: Facebook Formatted (and other works)
Contemporary
Art Meets Social Networking in
New Exhibition at Nassau County Museum of Art
March 31-July 8, 2012
To encourage
dialogue and broaden the audience for his work, New York artist Steven Salzman uploads his boldly colored, geometric digital
images to Facebook in the three-part horizontal rectangle format seen on Facebook pages. His playful, yet insightful paintings,
prints and collages draw inspiration from advanced physics and astronomy. Steven Salzman: Facebook Formatted (and other
works) will be on view in Nassau County Museum of Art’s Contemporary Collectors Gallery from March 31 through July
8, 2012. The exhibition is organized for the museum’s Contemporary Collectors Circle by Elaine Berger.
Several works on display reveal Salzman’s long fascination with an unusual variety of materials to create minimal
abstractions of great subtlety and mesmerizing refinement. One series is composed entirely of striped plastic drinking straws.
The artist meticulously cuts and glues hundreds of plastic straws onto rectangular boards; each of these compositions may
take weeks to complete. This use of an ordinary, familiar material becomes a modernist pun in which the viewer is encouraged
to “drink in” or “slurp up” the visual results.
Salzman’s interest in a type
of paint known as “interference pigments” is seen in several large canvases in this exhibition. These paints contain
reflective particles that produce a “lenticular” effect. This means that, depending on the light source and the
viewer’s position, colors shift to their spectrum opposites — reds to greens, yellows to purples, blues or oranges
and vice versa. The overall design can also shift from milky whites to sparkling vivid hues. These star-like compositions
can be seen as referring to the light from celestial bodies and man’s fascination with space, time, and motion.
Steven Salzman is presenting a talk at the museum in which he discusses his art,
techniques and influences. Formatting for Facebook will be offered on Saturday, May 12, at 3 p.m. Admission
is $15 ($5 for members) and includes museum admission. Register at nassaumuseum.org/events.
Educational
programs at the museum are made possible through the generosity of The New York State Council on the Arts with the support
of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the DeWitt Wallace Fund for Youth, a donor-advised fund at the
Long Island Community Foundation, Bank of America, David Lerner and Associates, and Nassau County Museum of Art Ball and Benefactors
Dinner. Additional generous educational support is provided by Capital One Bank, Milton & Sally Avery Foundation, North
Shore Autism Circle, The Ridenour Endowment Fund and TD Bank Foundation.
Nassau County Museum of Art, governed
by a privately elected Board of Trustees, is chartered and accredited by New York State as a not-for-profit, private educational
institution. The museum’s exhibitions and programs are made possible through the support of Nassau County under County
Executive Edward P. Mangano and the Nassau County Legislature, as well as memberships, admissions, special events, private
and corporate donations, and government and foundation grants.
Nassau County Museum of Art is located at
One Museum Drive (just off Northern Boulevard, Route 25A, two traffic lights west of Glen Cove Road) in Roslyn Harbor. The
museum is open Tuesday--Sunday, 11 a.m.--4:45 p.m. Docent-led tours of the exhibition are offered at 2 p.m. each day; tours
of the mansion are offered each Saturday at 1 p.m.; meet in the lobby, no reservations needed. Admission to the galleries
in the Arnold & Joan Saltzman Fine Art Building is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors aged 62 and above and $4 for students
and children aged 4 to 12. Members are admitted free. There is a $2 parking fee on weekends (free for members). The Museum
Store is open Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Media Contact: Doris Meadows, dorismeadows@optonline.net
or (516) 609-9696.
Public Information: nassaumuseum.org or (516) 484-9337
Steven Salzman:
Facebook Formatted (and other works)
Photos
Steven Salzman
The History Of The Universe: From The Big-Bang To Ellsworth Kelly, 2012
Digital print on paper
Collection of the artist
Steven Salzman
The Large-Hadron Collider,
2012
Digital rendering
Collection of the artist
Steven Salzman
The Golden Age,
2005.
Interference acrylic on canvas
84 x 60 inches
Collection of the artist
Steven Salzman
Straws!, 2000.
Plastic straws on panel
14 x 11 inches
Collection of the artist
Steven Salzman
Straws! V, 2002.
Plastic straws on panel
20 x 16 inches
Collection
of the artist For more photos goto our area events page. To view our local photo journal go to 
Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum Mother & Daughter Yoga by the Sea Saturday, May 12 from 11am-12pm Moms and daughters of all ages can celebrate Mother’s
Day among the trees, ocean, and sky and learn yoga poses inspired by the sea, such as the Fish Pose. An instructor from Harbor Lights Yoga of Huntington
will run this outdoor program. Bring a mat/towel. Location: Program takes place outdoors by Cold Spring Harbor park (Shore Road and Route 25A)Directions available on museum website. Inclement Weather: Program takes place at the Museum (301 Main Street).
Cost: $12 Adult/Child Pair; $5 Additional
Child.Members $10 Pair.
RSVP Required 631-367-3418
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