Farm Projects

Steve Novick - What, exactly has been lost

On Display June 21 - July 1

Opening Reception: June 22, 5:00-7:00 pm

In his first solo exhibition with Farm Projects, Steve Novick presents a series of elliptical sculptures that fuel meditations on temporality, language, consumption, and nature. Borrowing from the vocabulary of modernism, Novick crafts objects that subvert ideas of pure abstraction with humorous riffs on shape, color, and form. Work featured in “What, exactly, has been lost” incorporates found elements, objects, and materials; cleaning and refinishing aside, these are generally used as is, with occasional painted interventions. Simple items, and parts of more complex ones, are fitted together both deliberately and speculatively, via a process of trial and error. While modernism is the springboard for this body of work, other influences—cartoons, folk art, surrealism, minimalism— become evident in the work’s straightforward use of materials, simplicity of form, and tendency towards anthropomorphism.

Artist talk: Steve Novick will have a discussion with Bailey Bob Bailey on Saturday, June 22, from 5-5:30

About the Artist  Steve Novick was born in 1966 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1988, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1991.

Novick has exhibited his work in solo shows in Boston, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, and has participated in group shows in New York, Boston, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Montreal. His work has been reviewed in the New York Sun, the Newark Star-Ledger, and the Boston Globe.

A recipient of Pollock-Krasner and Massachusetts Cultural Council grants, he is Professor of Art & Design at Suffolk University.