Pratt in Venice painting faculty Mario Naves is featuring work in a group exhibition, MAGIC, at Metaphor Projects in Brooklyn.

MAGIC is a group exhibition which highlights the intangible power of art to connect and heal after our months of Covid lockdown. Metaphor Projects is an artists-run non profit space for contemporary art and culture.

Mario Naves is an artist, critic and teacher. His art is a form of painting disguised as collage. His criticism abjures the marketplace for what meets the eye. His teaching encourages burgeoning artists to question just what it is exactly they’re getting into and how to do it well.

His work is represented by Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea.  It has been written about in The New York Times, Art in America, The New York Sun, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, ArtCritical.com, Abstract Art Online and other venues. He has been the recipient of awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, The E.D. Foundation, the George Sugarman Foundation, The National Academy of Design and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

His writing has been published in Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, Smithsonian, ARTS Magazine, New Art Examiner, Tema Celeste and The New York Observer, where his column, “Currently Hanging”, appeared on a weekly basis from 1999-2009.  He currently write reviews of contemporary art for The New Criterion.

MAGIC
Metaphor Projects
382 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
December 4, 2021–January 16, 2022
Opening Reception: December 4, 2021, 5–8 PM
Closing Reception: January 16, 2022, 5–8 PM