Meet Artisit Cristi Rinklin at the Currier's First Thursday LIVE Musical Evening August 2

Beginning at 6 pm Thursday, August
2,join artist Cristi Rinklin and Currier Museum of Art Assistant Curator Nina
Bozicnik in the gallery as they speak aboutDiluvial, Rinklin’s immersive
installation created specifically for the Currier. The presentation will be
followed by a concert of works developed by renowned composer Shirish Korde in
response to Rinklin’s imagery of nature’s dynamic forces.

Accompanied by a tabla player and a
hand percussionist, soprano Deepti Navaratna and cellist Jan Muller-Szerwas
will perform Korde’s works based on Indian rhythms and ranging from the
contemplative to the energetic. The museum will be open until 8 pm for extended
“First Thursday” hours. Free for members, $10 for non-members and includes
complimentary light refreshments. (Seating in the gallery will be limited.)

Visitors will be absorbed in an
imaginary landscape of dazzling color and light when they enter Rinklin’s new
environmental artwork created specifically for the Currier. The Boston-based
artist combines hand-painting and digital technologies for Diluvial,
which was inspired by a floor-to-ceiling wall of windows in the gallery and the
museum’s collection of 19^th century American landscape paintings.

Rinklin is Associate Professor of
Drawing and Painting at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA and exhibits
internationally. In 2010, she was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council
Fellowship for Drawing. She is represented by Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston.

This exhibition is part of the
Currier’sContemporary Connections series, which features new work by
early- and mid-career artists from New England, made in direct response to the
museum’s collection and architecture.

On view through September 9,Diluvial
is sponsored by Bank of New Hampshire and supported by the Gloria Wilcher
Exhibition Fund and a research and publication grant from the College of the
Holy Cross. Additional support provided by The McFarland Center for Religion,
Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross, ICL Imaging, and Project
Supporters at United States Artists Projects

The Currier Museum of Art is located
at 150 Ash Street, Manchester, NH. Open every day except Tuesday. Museum
admission: adults $10; seniors $9; students $8; children age 17 and under are
always admitted free. More information: www.currier.org or call 603.669.6144 x108.