The New Bedford Art Museum presents Synergies: Hybrid Art, a juried exhibition of 19 artists working in all media. This exhibition highlights work that merges artistic disciplines, materials, and technologies to create innovative forms of expression. The exhibition is juried by Amy Lemaire & Nicolas Touron, an artist duo based in Brooklyn, NY, whose collaborative practice explores materiality, form, and the intersection of natural and constructed environments. Working across diverse media, their work bridges the disciplines of sculpture, glass, and installation, creating immersive visual narratives that challenge perception and engage the senses.
JUROR’S STATEMENT
Synergies: Hybrid Art brings together artists whose works operate through combination, transformation, and emergence. As collaborating artists and jurors, we were consistently drawn to practices that move beyond fixed categories—works existing between disciplines, materials, technologies, and ways of thinking. What emerged through the jurying process was not simply a survey of contemporary making, but a portrait of artists actively redefining artistic boundaries.
To us, synergy suggests more than interdisciplinarity. It describes the moment when separate elements converge to create something newly alive—something that could not exist independently. Across the exhibition, materials, ideas, processes, and traditions intersect in unexpected ways: hand skills merge with digital technologies; craft intersects with conceptual inquiry; physical materials interact with virtual environments; and diverse visual languages coexist within new systems of meaning and production.
Many of the selected artists work at the edges of established disciplines, where categories become permeable and new forms emerge through experimentation, hybridity, and exchange. Rather than functioning as oppositions, dualities—human and technological, material and virtual, local and global— generate new possibilities for imagination, inquiry, and critical reflection.
The exhibition reflects a contemporary moment defined by accelerated technological change, ecological awareness, and the constant recombination of information, histories, and forms. Artists are uniquely positioned within this landscape, not only responding to change but envisioning new relationships between systems, materials, and futures. Ultimately, Synergies celebrates artists who embrace uncertainty, cultivate resonance across seemingly disparate worlds, and create space for new forms of connection and emergence.
