Water Street Gallery is upping their game with the announcement of their 2016 exhibition season: The Art of the Game. The season opens Saturday, May 7th with the highly anticipated exhibition Chess: The New Players, featuring 10 new artists to the gallery.
The gallery will host 7 exhibitions in 2016 that revolve around art experiences that are connected with a selected board game; including Chess, Scrabble, and Roulette.
The works curated for each exhibit will echo the visual connection to the particular game.
“We enjoy providing the artists with a theme for our exhibitions,” says Water Street Gallery owner Maryjo Lemanski. “It allows them to use that theme as a springboard for ideas to generate new work.”
The correlation between art and board games are many. Both form and content are key players in the game. Designing a work of art is strategy: knowing when to continue and when to quit. And there are rules to be followed…or not.
The role of the artist in making the connection between art and games lies in the fact that art is a source of play. Creating a work of art involves quick decisions, taking risks and playing well with others. All experiences that are shared with people who join in playing a board game.
This sense of play holds true for the viewer as well. Each work of art can be considered a ‘visual game’ where the the player or viewer begins by looking at one part of the piece of artwork and ends either at another place or right where they started.
Water Street Gallery invites you to come play with them this season. You will be glad you did!
For more information about the 2016 exhibition season and artists at Water Street Gallery, please visit www.waterstreetgallery.com.
