Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967–1978

Curated by Harper Montgomery, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professor of Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, February 7th, 6–8pm

Please note that the galleries will be closed, Tuesday, February 12th, in observation of Lincoln's Birthday.

THE BERTHA AND KARL LEUBSDORF ART GALLERY

Hunter College, West Building at the southwest corner of 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, New York, NY

Exhibition runs February 8 – May 5, 2013

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Diego Barboza, Artur Barrio, Luis Benedit, Mel Bochner, Donald Burgy, Luis Camnitzer, Sigfredo Chacón, Eduardo Costa, Jaime Davidovich, Iole de Freitas, Antonio Dias, Juan Downey, Felipe Ehrenberg, Rafael Ferrer, Anna Bella Geiger, Rubens Gerchman, Víctor Grippo, Leandro Katz, Joseph Kosuth, David Lamelas, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Marta Minujín, Hélio Oiticica, Clemente Padín, Claudio Perna, John Perreault, Liliana Porter, Alejandro Puente, Carlos Rojas, Ed Ruscha, Bernardo Salcedo, Lawrence Weiner, Horacio Zabala

Eco’s concept of the Open Work—an artwork that could not be completed without the viewer’s participation—was highly useful for Latin American conceptualists from the late 1960s through the late 1970s because it named the collaborative and performative emphasis of their artworks. Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967–1978 displays the capacious nature of conceptualism by exhibiting 91 books, video, sound works, prints, drawings, installations and photography by 36 artists working in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, New York, London, Los Angeles, Montevideo and Caracas. Although not a historical survey, the show presents a collective desire to use the body to destabilize systems of representation shared by artists from Latin America working in conceptual modes from 1967 to 1978.

Open Work in Latin America, New York and Beyond includes some ninety works that have been generously lent to Hunter College from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University, Henrique Faria Fine Art, Document Art Gallery, Alexander Gray Associates, Daros Latinamerica Collection, Thria Collection, Luis Camnitzer, Jaime Davidovich, and Liliana Porter.

Hunter College is deeply grateful to the following donors, whose generous support has made this exhibition possible, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and The Bershad Exhibition Fund.

For more information about related events, including lectures by Dan Quiles, Gabriela Rangel, and performances and screenings organized by students at Hunter College, and for information about Hunter College’s Department of Art and Art History and its initiatives supported by the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, go to: www.latinamericanartathunter.org

Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966 - 2013 

Curated by William C. Agee, Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor of Art History with assistance from the following graduate students: Rotem Linial, Bridget McCarthy, Thesesa Andrea Morrison, Joan Reuteshan, and Nicoline Strom-Jensen

Organized by Susan Crile with Lisa Corinne Davis

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, February 15th, 6–8pm

EXHIBITION DATES: February 15 – April 20, 2013

HUNTER COLLEGE / TIMES SQUARE GALLERY

450 West 41st Street (between Dyer and 10th Avenue), New York, NY 

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 1-6pm

Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966 - 2013 celebrates the work of Sanford Wurmfeld, the Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus and the Hunter College Art Department Chair from 1978-2006. Wurmfeld is an internationally known painter and a fixture in the New York art world.  For decades he has created abstract paintings about color and its affects on human mood and visual perception.  Drawing inspiration from Georges Seurat, Josef Albers, Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, and his mentors and colleagues from Hunter College, among others, Sanford Wurmfeld illustrates the psychological effects of color on large-scale canvases.  He has pursued a near-scientific inquiry into the perceptual and experiential effects of color while remaining an intuitive painter.  With over 60 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and films – many of which have never been exhibited – Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966 - 2013 presents the most comprehensive retrospective of his large-scale works from over his fifty-year career.  The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to explore Wurmfeld’s groundbreaking examination of three-dimensional color as well as his legacy as a painter.  

Hunter College is deeply grateful to the leadership support from the following exhibition sponsors: The President’s Office, Hunter College; The Bershad Exhibition Fund; The Evelyn Kranes Kossak Painting Fund; and The Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Foundation. We thank, for their major contributions, Phyllis and Joseph Caroff, Lucille D. & Theodore Kaufman, Golden Artist Colors, Inc., New Berlin, NY, Phyllis L. Kossoff, John Leubsdorf, Joan Masket and Sherman Pincus, Jacqueline J. Sferra Rada, Anita Shapolsky, and the Judith and Stanley Zabar Fund.  We are also grateful for the many generous gifts to the exhibition from Sandy Wurmfeld’s former students, colleagues, friends and family, including those who contributed through our Facebook campaign.