{"id":4743,"date":"2016-09-20T07:09:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T11:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2018-05-06T17:39:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T21:39:44","slug":"assunta-sera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/assunta-sera\/","title":{"rendered":"Assunta Sera"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7590\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4743-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/assunta.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/assunta.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/assunta.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_4744\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4744\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4744\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Leaving-the-Galaxy-Assunta-Sera.jpg?resize=333%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"leaving-the-galaxy-assunta-sera\" width=\"333\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Leaving-the-Galaxy-Assunta-Sera.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Leaving-the-Galaxy-Assunta-Sera.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assunta Sera with Leaving the Galaxy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.assuntasera.com\/\">Assunta Sera<\/a> was born in Ceprano, Italy and came to America when she was eight. She\u00a0received a BFA at Center for Creative Studies in downtown Detroit in 1980. In 1986,\u00a0Sera enrolled in the Masters in Fine Arts program at Brooklyn College with a\u00a0concentration in painting; she was awarded a Graduate Fellowship and completed her\u00a0studies in 1989. After graduation, Sera established herself in New York with her first\u00a0studio in Tribeca. During that time she worked as an adjunct professor at New York\u00a0University, Bloomfield College, and Montclair State University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Sera moved her studio to\u00a0the SoHo area in 1996, where she continues her work to this day.\u00a0Sera has exhibited nationally and internationally since the 1980\u2019s. Her work, which began\u00a0with the personal, has expanded in an outward trajectory to encompass architectural\u00a0subjects, aerial landscapes, and images of the cosmos. She has always worked on the\u00a0divide between realism and abstraction, encouraging their coexistence by focusing on\u00a0space, color and light. She is recognized for her work as a colorist and unique ability to\u00a0divide space with both color and form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After an unexpected visit to the New York Museum of Natural History, a show entitled\u00a0Passport to the Universe at the Rose Center for Earth and Space initiated a fascination\u00a0with the interplay of the ideas of modern science and the challenge of representing those\u00a0ideas in the medium of painting. For the past decade, Sera\u2019s focus has been the cosmos\u00a0and the asymmetries of the world of matter, the galaxies and black holes. She is\u00a0particularly interested in the current investigations on dark matter and dark energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Using\u00a0geometrically shaped canvasses and organic forms, Sera\u2019s oil paintings can be seen\u00a0singularly or clustered. Rather than impose the geometric regularities so often exhibited\u00a0in modern painting when shaped canvases are used, Sera intuitively explores the known\u00a0and unknown with organic forms. The end results are complex, colorful, intricate visions.\u00a0Her work is unique and important.\u00a0Sera\u2019s recent work was on exhibition in 2016 at a three-person, mixed media show,\u00a0curated by Michele Perron, at the Center Galleries, Detroit, Michigan. Works on paper\u00a0using the asymmetric, cosmological theme were exhibited at a solo show at the\u00a0Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The book she mentioned in the interview is,\u00a0McInerney, Terence (2016), <em>Divine Pleasures: Painting from India\u2019s Rajput Courts<\/em>, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4745\" style=\"width: 629px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4745\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/On-the-Precipice-Assunta-Sera.jpg?resize=629%2C822&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"on-the-precipice-assunta-sera\" width=\"629\" height=\"822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/On-the-Precipice-Assunta-Sera.jpg?w=588&amp;ssl=1 588w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/On-the-Precipice-Assunta-Sera.jpg?resize=230%2C300&amp;ssl=1 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Precipice, Assunta Sera, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/assunta.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listAssunta Sera was born in Ceprano, Italy and came to America when she was eight. She\u00a0received a BFA at Center for Creative Studies in downtown Detroit in 1980. 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