HUNTER
COLLEGE ART GALLERIES FALL 2003 – SPRING 2004 EXHIBITIONS
Date:
September 2, 2003
Contact: Deborah Sack (deborah.sack@hunter.cuny.edu)
Phone: (212) 772-4070
Art
Galleries: (212) 772-4991
SEPTEMBER
4 – OCTOBER 18, 2003
The exhibition Confabulations presents an assembly of emerging
and established sculptors who have "confabulatory" tendencies—i.e.
low-tech, loosely curbed appetites for hands-on, tactile configurations
of forms and materials. As object-makers, they produce sculptures
that possess colloquial and ephemeral qualities. And while made
from the most simplistic of means, the impact of these works far
exceeds the simplicity of their components thus acting as a reminder
that powerful work can be created through the most basic materials.
Made in a straightforward and direct manner, these ponderous sculptures
and drawings recall chance observations and fleeting thoughts. This
exhibition is curated by Peter Dudek, Hunter College adjunct professor
of art. Participating artists include: Jay Batlle, Jimbo Blachly,
Liam Everett, Robert Kocik, Anke Sievers, and Nari Ward.
This
exhibition will be on view at the Hunter College/Bertha and Karl
Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College West Building, southwest
corner of 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. Hours: Tuesday –
Saturday, 1-6 p.m. An opening reception will be held from 5:30-7:30
p.m. Thursday, September 4.
SEPTEMBER
30 – NOVEMBER 22, 2003
In the spring of 2001, Vincent Longo retired from Hunter College
after a distinguished career of almost 35 years as professor of
art. In his honor, the Hunter College Art Galleries will mount a
major retrospective of his work curated by Anthony Panzera, professor
of art. Vincent Longo: Reflections on Abstraction, Five Decades
of Paintings and Prints will review the artist’s entire
body of work. Longo is one of the last of the great abstract painter/printmaker
artists who emerged during the late 1940s and 1950s. The themes
he developed throughout his career move easily and gracefully from
prints to paintings and back again, one informing the other in a
consistent, cohesive body of work. The work, both beautiful and
compelling, reveals an intelligent and coherent vision. The balance
between the geometry of the grid and the visual randomness and lyrical
structures of color is perfect and startling at the same time. According
to the art critic Hilton Kramer, "The eye is constantly dazzled,
yet there is no fool-the-eye trickery. The craftsmanship is flawless,
but it is the gift for chromatic grace that moves us." (Hilton
Kramer, Exhibition Review The New York Times, October 8,
1976, Andrew Crispo Gallery.)
The
exhibition will be on view at the Hunter College/Times Square
Gallery, 450 W. 41st Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues).
Hours: Tuesdays - Saturdays, 1-6 p.m. A reception will be held from
6-8 p.m. Tuesday, September 30.
OCTOBER
30 – DECEMBER 13, 2003
Curated by Tracy L. Adler, Curator of the Hunter College Art Galleries,
Strange Worlds explores the social, biological and technological
realms of the imagination brought about by new technologies and
developments in science. In this exhibition, a selection of emerging
artists create parallel universes where aspects of a known world
collide with that of the artist’s own making. They often draw
upon advancements in photography, video, and the traditional arts
as a means of making statements about the development of the medium
itself. The resulting works reveal fanciful realms of futuristic
possibilities and evolutionary absurdities. These odd environments,
creatures, and objects hint at the potential of both science and
creativity.
In
the photographs of Charlie White, an otherworldly creature exits
as part of an otherwise banal suburban environment as both an atavistic
inner id and futuristic projection. In John Slepian’s interactive
installations, computer-animated creatures include references to
biological cloning and mutant creations. Alyson Shotz’s sculptures
and paintings incorporate recurrent natural and synthetic forms
that imply both the bucolic and futuristic. Yun-Fei Ji creates works
inspired by traditional Chinese scroll painting however his subject
matter includes bizarre narratives of strange villages inhabited
by absurd creatures. Dannielle Tegeder’s drawings and paintings
resemble engineering blueprints for the inner workings of an alien
world. Recurrent forms appear to perform particular functions providing
the foundation for an unfamiliar universe. Constant adaptation and
projected futures provide the basis for the exhibition Strange
Worlds.
This
exhibition will be on view at the Hunter College/Bertha and Karl
Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College West Building, SW corner
of 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. Hours: Tuesday – Saturday,
1-6 p.m. An opening reception will be held from 5:30 p.m. –
7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 30.
DECEMBER
17, 2003 – JANUARY 17, 2004
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.
The
exhibition will be on view at the Hunter College/Times Square
Gallery, 450 W. 41st Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues at
Dyer Street). Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 1-6 p.m. An opening
reception will be held from 6-8 p.m., Wednesday, December 17.
DECEMBER
18, 2003 – JANUARY 17, 2004
The Hunter College BFA Degree Show is held at the end of
each semester and presents recent work by graduating Hunter College
undergraduate art students. Hunter Art Professor Nari Ward will
organize the exhibition.
The
exhibition will be on view at the Hunter College/Bertha and Karl
Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College West Building, SW corner
of 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 1-6 p.m. An opening reception will be held
from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, December 16.
JANUARY
29 – MARCH 13, 2004
Art After Ideology: Sidney Tillim in Retrospect will bring
together a small selection of Sidney Tillim's paintings made over
the course of his 40-year career. One of the most original artists
and critics of American post-war art, Tillim made wild versions
of academic history paintings, experimental abstractions, and everything
in between. What unites the work is a deep affinity for both vulgar
American culture and colors, and the most sophisticated and rigorous
traditions of modernism. Curated by Katy Siegel, assistant professor
of art history and criticism, and contributing editor to Artforum,
the exhibition will coincide with the publication of an anthology
of Tillim's brilliant, idiosyncratic art criticism, forthcoming
from Routledge.
The
exhibition will be on view at the Hunter College/Bertha and Karl
Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College West Building, SW corner
of 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 1-6 p.m. An opening reception will be held
from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, January 29.
FEBRUARY
19 – APRIL 10, 2004
The changed relationship of the viewer in late 20th century sculpture
is the subject of a sculpture show entitled MOVED curated
by Hunter assistant professor of art, Stephen Davis. This exhibition
focuses on the variety of ways in which sculpture builds a physical
conversation with a body in space over a period of time. It concentrates
on work that requests an active viewer with a wide range of materials
and attitudes represented. Works by Frederick Kiesler, Tony Smith,
Mark diSuvero, Barry LeVa, Mowry Baden, Robert Grosvenor and others
will be exhibited.
The
exhibition will be on view at the Hunter College/Times Square
Gallery, 450 W. 41st Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues at
Dyer Street). Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 1-6 p.m. An opening
reception will be held from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, February 19.
MARCH
25 – MAY 7, 2004_
In the exhibition Tracing Tony Smith’s Tau, the
evolution of Smith's great work is revisited from its inception
in 1965 to its installation in the plaza on 68th Street and Lexington
Avenue at Hunter College in 1990. Drawings and maquettes for both
Tau and related sculptures will be shown and presented in context
with his other major works, especially Smoke, the large-scale environmental
piece installed at the Corcoran gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
in 1967. Curated by William C. Agee, professor of art history at
Hunter College, this exhibition aims to explore the artistic and
historical context for this seminal work. The catalogue will include
photo documentation, and interviews with artists and those who knew
him during his tenure as a highly influential teacher at Hunter
College (1962-1980), when Tau was conceived. The show will incorporate
the efforts of current long-standing faculty members Sanford Wurmfeld
and Robert Swain, retired professors Vincent Longo and Doug Ohlson,
and students as research assistants among others.
The
exhibition will be on view at the Hunter College/Bertha and Karl
Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College West Building, SW corner
of 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. Hours: Tuesday – Saturday,
1-6 p.m. An opening reception will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday,
March 25.
MAY
19 – JUNE 19, 2004
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.
The
exhibition will be on view at the Hunter College/Times Square
Gallery, 450 W. 41st Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues at
Dyer Street). Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 1-6 p.m. An opening
reception will be held from 6-8 p.m., Wednesday, May 19.
MAY
20- JUNE 20, 2003
The Hunter College BFA Degree Show is held at the end of
each semester and presents recent work by graduating Hunter College
undergraduate art students. Hunter art professor Gabriele Evertz
will organize the exhibition.
The
exhibition will be on view at the Hunter College/Bertha and Karl
Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College West Building, SW corner
of 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. Hours: Tuesday – Saturday,
1-6 p.m. An opening reception will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday,
May 20.
