The New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art will present HEADS, a public art exhibition featuring more than 50 new large-scale paintings by Romanian artist, Dumitru Gorzo, on view August 19 – October 14, 2012 in downtown Red Bank, New Jersey, with support from the Romanian Cultural Institute and RCI New York. This is Dumitru Gorzo’s first museum exhibition in the United States. Curated by the art critic, independent curator, art historian, and president of the International Association of Art Critics, Dr. Marek Bartelik, Gorzo’s series of 4’ x 8’ paintings commissioned exclusively for this exhibition focuses on expressive, allegorical, strange, satirical, and futuristic heads. The exhibition will effectively transform the historic town on the Navesink River into an open museum portrait gallery. Dumitru Gorzo’s methods of working have ranged from street prankster, to performance artist, to studio painter and sculptor—effectively evading any strict categorization
Dumitru Gorzo was born in 1975 in Ieud, Romania. He received an advanced visual arts degree from the National University of Fine Arts in Bucharest. Gorzo’s methods of working have ranged from street prankster, to performance artist, to studio painter and sculptor—effectively evading any strict categorization. In 2006 he was the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, which traveled to the Brukenthal Art Museum in Sibiu, Romania. The artist lives and works in Bucharest and New York.
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