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Photography of Brutalist Architecture:
With her photographic exploration of Brutalism, Viera Levitt
reveals the hidden beauty of this architectural style often
derided as gray, crude, soulless and austere. Her 'subjects',
located in both New England as well as in her native
Slovakia share not only architectural similarities, but also the
utopian impulse that ran through both sides of the 'Iron
Curtain'. — Viera Levitt
Free with museum admission.
Curator and photographer Viera Levitt, following her RISD
Graduate Studies' Artslink Residency and her internship in
the Photography Department at the Museum of Modern Art,
New York, moved to Rhode Island seven years ago from
Slovakia where she was the director of the contemporary art
museum. After 3 years as the Director of the CCRI Knight
Campus Art Gallery, she has, since September 2012, been
the Gallery Director for the University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth.
Her show at CCRI about its brutalist megastructure, "We
Talk About Architecture, Architecture Talks Back" won the
2011 New England Art Award in the Concept/Theme show
curator category and inspired her to photograph similar
objects through the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
Project Grant. Her photographs of Boston City Hall were
published in Nov/Dec 2012 issue of Art New England and
today, she continues her research of Brutalism through her
work at Paul Rudolph designed UMass Dartmouth.
From 1996 to the present, Viera has curated or co-curated
more than sixty exhibitions in Slovakia, the Czech Republic,
Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, and in the USA and has
lectured about contemporary art in Bratislava, Brno, Berlin,
Rotterdam, Hiroshima, New Delhi, Caracas, Nairobi, as well
as in New England.