Please join us for a discussion with artist Shay Arick on October 7th, at 6pm in the NARS Main Gallery.

The talk will focus on Shay’s recent project titled, Second Nature. Arick started practicing a new method of sculpting during the Covid-19 pandemic while he was quarantined in the mountains in Israel. He collected flowers and weeds from the fields nearby, dried them, and later cut the stems, connected leaves, and assembled the various parts into new kinds of “engineered” plants.

Shay Arick is an Israeli visual artist based in Brooklyn. Arick is a recipient of Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Arts Award and the Eileen Cooper Award For Creativity, the America-Israel Award For Excellence in Sculpture and is a HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts Artist Grant recipient, among others. He received support through many residencies and fellowships, including The International Sculpture Center, MASS MoCA, Kadist Art Foundation, Wassaic Project, Residency Unlimited, NARS Foundation, The Watermill Center Summer Residency, Ox-Bow, and New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. His work has been shown in venues such as Haifa Museum Of Art (Haifa),Y Gallery (New York), Watermill Center (New York), San Francisco International Arts Festival, Southern Exposure (San Francisco), SOMarts (San Francisco), Subterranean Arthouse (Berkeley), Ground For Sculpture (New Jersey), ZiZspace (Tel Aviv), Binyamin Gallery (Tel Aviv), Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), OnSpace (Beijing), Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing) among others.