Gallery Talk with Cliff Evans & George Fifield

Introduction to the Special Exhibtion: Empyrean
Thursday, December 20, 7:00pm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Meet Cliff Evans, the artist behind the special exhibition Empyrean. Learn more about the ideas behind Empyrean during this informal conversation in the gallery with George Fifield, Director, Boston Cyberarts Festival.

Part of Gardner After Hours: "A Solstice Soiree" on December 20. FREE with admission. Pick up a complimentary ticket at the Visitor Information Desk on the day of the talk.

Cliff Evans (b.1977) was an Artist-in-Residence at the Gardner in 2006. He currently lives in New York and Boston and is a professor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

George Fifield is a media arts curator, writer, teacher and artist. He is the founder and director of Boston Cyberarts Inc., a nonprofit arts organization, which produces the Boston Cyberarts Festival. The fourth international biennial Festival occurred April 22 to May 8, 2005, and involved nearly a seventy-five exhibitions of visual arts; music, dance, and theatrical performances; film and video presentations and symposia at numerous arts and educational organizations throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Besides these traditional physical locations, the Festival website (http://www.bostoncyberarts.org) continues to be a major exhibition and reference site for artists working in new technologies.

Throughout the run of the exhibition, Cliff Evans will be joined in the gallery by new media luminaries from Boston and beyond for talks about the show and his use of new media. A complete program schedule is available online at http://gardnermuseum.org/calendar/events.asp?filtid=8.

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A new video projection by Cliff Evans, Empyrean turns a critical eye on contemporary American culture. Using images excerpted from the Internet the artist has created a five-channel animated digital projection which recalls the form of 15th-century northern European altarpieces. Evans challenges the viewer to confront issues of militarism, politics, consumerism and power in our society. Infused with the artist's wry sense of humor and his keen eye for color and juxtaposition, Empyrean is as engaging as it is disquieting.

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