Hunter Colllege Art Galleries
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery
68th Street & Lexington Ave.
West Lobby
New York, NY 10021
(212) 772-4991
Times Square Gallery/
MFA Building
450 West 41st Street
New York, NY 10036
(212) 772-4991 | Hunter College Art Galleries 2007 – 2008
Stealing Time
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery
September 6 – October 20, 2007
Co-curated by Hunter MFA alumni Christa Blatchford, Chad Nelson, and Pierre Obando, Stealing Time examines the scenario of the artist in the workplace. This show explores various forms of institutional and social critique, particularly what happens when work time and personal time intersect and overlap. Stealing Time comments on an array of issues within a contemporary labor context and features work by Harrell Fletcher, Josh Greene, Fritzia Irizar Rojo, Clifford Owens, John Pilson, Nick Stillman and Michael Zahn. This exhibition is accompanied by a color catalogue.
MAs Select MFAs
Times Square Gallery
October 4 – November 24, 2007
The exhibition MAs Select MFAs featuring work by students in the MFA program in Studio Art selected by MA students in Art History demonstrates the wide range of work produced by the MFA program at Hunter College and the growing curatorial expertise of the department’s MA candidates. Five student curators—Mara Hoberman, Nina Kong, Danica Lichtig, Michelle Sammons, and Jesse White—spent the spring 2007 semester examining major issues in curatorial studies in preparation for this project, guided by Dr. Juliet Bellow, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History at Hunter. This group was invited to visit the studios of artists who were interested in participating and qualified by passing their mid-program review. Displaying the work of twenty artists, MAs Select MFAs not only demonstrates the breadth of the Hunter College MFA program, but also the vibrant dialogue taking place among the department’s artists and art historians. The student artists featured include Peter Demos, Kerry Downey, Nicky Enright, Evan Gruzis, Michelle Hailey, Darren Jones, Jeemin Kim, Noah Landfield, Rachel Ostrow, Jiyoung Park, Claudia Peña, Shawn Powell, Ryan Roa, Ingrid Roe, Emma Spertus, Raphael Taylor, Courtney Tramposh, Patricia Valencia, Virginia Inés Vergara and Scott Wolfson.
Aesthetic Accomplishments, Political Commitments:
The Hunter College Collection of Puerto Rican Prints
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery | November 1 – December 8, 2007
Curated by Hunter College MFA alumnus and visual artist Miguel Trelles (MFA, 1995), Aesthetic Accomplishments, Political Commitments: The Hunter College Collection of Puerto Rican Prints presents a selection of Puerto Rican prints spanning 25 years (from 1958 to 1983) and representing a tenacious endorsement for indigenous cultural production and the quest for Puerto Rico’s independence.
The selected works, all part of the Hunter College Collection, exemplify how the practice of serigraphy—traditionally utilized as a silkscreen poster—became the currency of visual culture on the Island during the second half of the twentieth-century. This practice also built up an important repertory of images of historical figures and compelling symbols associated with independence. Aesthetic Accomplishments, Political Commitments highlights some of the towering figures of twentieth-century Puerto Rican art, artists and master printmakers such as Lorenzo Homar, Rafael Tufiño, Carlos Raquel Rivera, Myrna Baez, José Alicea, Antonio Martorell, José Rosa, and Consuelo Gotay, among others. This exhibition is accompanied by a color catalogue and is co-sponsored by The Hunter College Art Galleries, Hunter College Office of the Provost, Centro de Estudios Puertorrqueños and Rums of Puerto Rico.
MFA Thesis Exhibition
December 12, 2007 – January 12, 2008
Times Square Gallery
Held at the end of each semester, the Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition presents the work of graduating Hunter MFA candidates as a partial degree requirement. The exhibition offers the public an opportunity to see recent work of emerging artists.
BFA Degree Show
December 13, 2007 – January 12, 2008
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery
The Hunter College BFA Degree Show presents recent work by graduating Hunter College undergraduate art students. Professor of Art, Jeffrey Mongrain, will organize the exhibition.
Re-Orientations:
Islamic Art and the West in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
February 7 –April 26, 2008
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery
Curated by Ülkü Ü. Bates, Professor of Art History, with the assistance of graduate students in Art History from Hunter College and the Graduate Center, Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries presents a selection of over forty objects on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, many of which are on view for the first time. This exhibition examines a variety of stylistic modifications that occurred in Islamic art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During this time, cheaply produced goods from Europe, such as tableware, textiles and glassware flooded the markets of the Middle East. In addition to imitating Western goods by appropriating motifs and forms, the craftsmen adjusted the quality and style of their predominantly handmade objects to suit the changing local tastes and meet the demands of increasing numbers of Western travelers. Labeling the objects of this era “Western influenced,” collectors have largely ignored the Islamic arts from this era.
Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries is among the first exhibitions to investigate the artistic trends of that time in the Muslim world. Such changes in the arts are a prelude to the challenges Muslim peoples have undergone over the last few centuries: preserving local traditions and customs while safeguarding Islamic identity and absorbing Western modernity. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with extensive entries and scholarly contributions.
Panel discussion organized by Professor Joachim Pissarro and the Hunter College Art Galleries.
Elena Filipovic and Adam Szymczyk, the curators of the bb5, will speak about their upcoming biennial exhibition in Berlin.
Friday, March 7th
6:00pm
Room 1527, Hunter College North (Kossak Hall)
MFA Thesis Exhibition
May 14 – June 14, 2008
Times Square Gallery
Held at the end of each semester, the Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition presents the work of graduating Hunter MFA candidates as a partial degree requirement. The exhibition offers the public an opportunity to see recent work of emerging artists.
BFA Degree Show
May 15, 2007 – June 14, 2008
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery
The Hunter College BFA Degree Show presents recent work by graduating Hunter College undergraduate art students. Professor of Art, Jeffrey Mongrain, will organize the exhibition.
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