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Nassau County Museum of Art presents "Robert Hite: Imagined Histories"

In the Contemporary Gallery and

the Art Space for Children

Through September 4, 2011

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Sculptures sited among Hudson Valley landscapes and dramatic black and white photographs are featured in Robert Hite: Imagined Histories, an exhibition in the museum’s Contemporary Gallery and Art Space for Children on view through September 4. Hite is a sculptor, painter and photographer. A native of Virginia, he now lives and works in Esopus, in NY’s Hudson Valley. His work, always reflective of nature and of the surrounding landscape, reveals the influence of the rich Southern narrative tradition and his Hudson Valley surroundings. Hite has studied and photographed rural dwellings in Central and South America, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean and the Southern United States.

From 2006 to 2010, Hite installed and photographed a series of mixed/media architectural sculptures called Imagined Histories: Hudson Valley Landscapes. The exhibition includes sculpture and black and white photographs from the series. The works for the exhibition have been selected by Elaine Berger for the museum’s Contemporary Collectors Circle and by Museum Director Karl E. Willers, Ph.D.

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Nassau County Museum of Art is located at One Museum Drive (just off Northern Boulevard, Route 25A, two traffic lights west of Glen Cove Road) in Roslyn Harbor. Hours for Arnold & Joan Saltzman Fine Art Building (main building) are 11 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Hours for the Art Space for Children are 12 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission to the main building is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors (62 and above) and $4 for students and children (4 to12) and includes same day admission to the Art Space for Children. Members are admitted free. Admission to the Art Space for Children only is $5 for adults and $4 for students, children (aged 4 to 12) and seniors (aged 62 and above); children under 4 and members are free. There is a $2 parking fee on weekends (free for members). The Museum Gift Shop is open during museum hours.

Call (516) 484-9337 for current exhibitions, events, hours and directions or log onto nassaumuseum.org.

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