Start your weekend off with NOMA! Join artist Adam Mysock for a special discussion on the exhibition Visions of US: American Art at NOMA. After the discussion, stick around for a film screening on Chuck Close, one of the artists featured in the exhibition.

• 5-8 pm: Art on the Spot
• 5-6 pm: NOCCA Choir
• 6-8 pm: Opera On Tap!
• 6:30 pm: Artist Perspective with Adam Mysock: “On Seeing and Being”
• 7:30 pm: Film: Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress

About “On Seeing and Being”

On Seeing and Being is a conversation lead by local painter Adam Mysock, who will explore how our responses to images can help us develop a better understanding of our own identities.  Reflecting on his own recent paintings and several more historical works in Visions of US: American Art at NOMA, Mysock will tackle how factors such as scale, time, and duplication influence the relationship an audience has with an image, an image has with its audience, and an audience has with itself.

About Opera on Tap!

New Orleans Opera’s popular “Opera On Tap” series was the first official franchise of an organization based in New York City. There are now chapters in Chicago, LA, San Francisco, Denver, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Atlanta, and Boston. The group performs regularly throughout the metro area including French Quarter Fest and on The Steamboat Natchez.

About Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress

Since 1969, when Chuck Close first exhibited his series of black-and-white portrait heads, his paintings have fascinated the public. Working mostly from instant photographs, Close paints in a style that vacillates between representation and abstraction. His colossal heads, at first severe and confrontational, explode with painterly energy, mesmerizing the viewer with their mosaic-like surfaces. Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress traces the artist’s evolution and follows Close into New York’s contemporary art community.