In a true example of an artistic alliance, the faculty of the San Jacinto College South art department have joined forces with The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake to present a national juried exhibition titled Opposites Attract.  Over four hundred works of art were entered from thirty five states and Ireland. The works will be submitted to juror William Stover of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, who will choose work for exhibition and awards.

   Opposites Attract will feature works in all media, whose form or subject matter deals with high contrast.  Light and dark, male and female, up and down, young and old, in and out - the dynamic created when opposites are coupled will be explored.

   William Stover, Assistant Curator for the Department of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will serve as the juror of Opposites Attract. In addition to his working on the development and expansion of the contemporary collection, his recent projects at the MFA include the exhibitions John Currin Selects, the first American museum exhibition of British artist Cerith Wyn Evans, and Laura McPhee: River of No Return.

   Formerly, he has worked as the Curatorial Administrator/Publications Manager at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; Exhibitions Associate at the Independent Curators International overseeing traveling exhibitions, such as Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, Painting Zero Degree, do it, and At the Threshold of the Visible, among others; and Educations Programs Assistant at the Carnegie Museum of Art.  In addition, Stover ahs been an independent curator, organizing exhibitions including Alternative : Alternative, an exhibition held at Roebling Hall in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which examined the role and history of SPOT, an alternative space in New York City; at A Remove at the Center for Photography at Woodstock; Buying Time: Nourishing Excellence, an exhibition of work by the 2000 NYFA Painting Fellows; and Stepping Back, Moving Forward: Human Interaction in an Interactive Age, which was recently on view at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

   The opening reception for Opposites Attract will be held at The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake, located at 2000 NASA Parkway across from the Johnson Space Center on Thursday, February 14, 2008.  The artist awards will be presented, music and catering will be provided, and a staged reading from William Shakespeare's “The Taming of the Shrew” will be performed by Café 21 Theatre.  Admission is free.