Young Painter Prize 2014 is again looking for new talents in the Baltic States and seeks to present the most perspective and significant painters of the young generation. The selective exhibition of Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian painters’ art works will take place in Contemporary Art Centre, 24 September – 19 October 2014. The finalists will be presented in Lithuanian Artist’s Association Gallery in the end of October. This year’s Young Painter Price event will be enriched with the lecture of one of the most important art researchers Barry Schwabsky.
Barry Schwabsky is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the art critic for The Nation and his essays have appeared in Flash Art, Artforum, London Review of Books, and Art in America. His books include The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art, Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, Words for Art: Criticism, History, Theory, Practice, and several volumes of poetry, the most recent being Book Left Open in the Rain.
The talk will be held in English.
