Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Panorama of the Hudson River: Greg Miller
Monroe-N.Y. artist Greg Miller exhibits a complete photographic panorama of the Hudson River, including both banks and stretching from Manhattan to Albany. The panorama will be paired with a 1912 photographic panorama developed for the Hudson River Day Line Steamer Company.

Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th Century American Landscape Paintings from the New-York Historical Society
To commemorate Hudson 400 celebrations, the museum has organized "The Hudson River to Niagara Falls" - an extraordinary exhibition of 45 landscape paintings from the New-York Historical Society. These beautiful paintings highlight 19th century views of specific sites along the Hudson River from Manhattan through the Hudson Valley and on to Niagara Falls by way of the Erie Canal. Artists represented in the exhibition include Samuel F. Morse, George Inness, Jasper F. Cropsy, Asher B. Durand, John F. Weir, Thomas Cole Albert Bierstadt, and others.

The Hudson River: A Great American Treasure
Opening reception for Greg Miller's "The Hudson River: A Great American Treasure" - large color photographs of mid-Hudson Valley landscapes.

Riverbank: Philippine Hoegen and Carolien Stikker
During their residency at New Paltz, Amsterdam-based artists Philippine Hoegen and Carolien Stikker have created a film projection based on film, videotape, and audio recordings made in the evocative wetlands and tidal areas along the Hudson River.
Stikker and Hoegen explored the Hudson River and environs, especially the flow of water that constitutes the archetype or the idea of the word "river" and our attraction and need for it.

Art Lecture: Chad Curtis, ceramist
Chad Curtis is an artist and technologist living and working in Philadelphia. Curtis' work, drawing inspiration from from both digital technology and homebrew DIY makers, examines the effects of high technology on the relationship between human beings and the natural environment. Despite the negative connotations often associated with this relationship, Curtisʼ work remains playfully optimistic invoking the alluring possibilities of bright and glossy colors, flawless polished Plexiglas and curvaceous, tactilely inviting forms. Curtis holds a MFA from Alfred University and has exhibited internationally including: Margins: A Nontraditional Approach to Clay, The Icehouse, Phoenix, AZ (2009); Archaeology of Wonder, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (2008); Primary, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, MI (2008); Scope Hamptons, East Hampton, NY (2007); CIRCA Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2007); One Part Clay: Ceramic Avant-garde & Mixed Media, Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City, NY (2006); Scope Miami, Miami Beach, FL (2006); and SOFA New York, New York, NY (2005). Additionally, his work has been included in such publications as: "Ceramics Art and Perception," "Neue Keramik," "Seramik Turkiye," and the recent books "Breaking the Mould: New Approaches to Ceramics" and "Tangible: High Touch Visuals." Currently, he is an assistant professor at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia.