Synergies: Hybrid Art
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 […]
