Wednesday, November 4, 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: Wafaa Bilal, multi-media, performance artist
Iraqi born artist Wafaa Bilal has exhibited his art world wide, and traveled and lectured extensively to inform audiences of the situation of the Iraqi people, and the importance of peaceful conflict resolution. Bilal's 2007 dynamic installation "Domestic Tension" placed him on the receiving end of a paintball gun that was accessible online to a worldwide audience, 24 hours a day. Newsweek called the project “breathtaking” and the Chicago Tribune called the month-long piece "one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time," and named Bilal its 2007 Artist of the Year. Bilal has exhibited worldwide including in Baghdad, the Netherlands, Thailand and Croatia; as well as at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Museum and various other US galleries. His residencies have included Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California; Catwalk in New York; and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In fall 2008 City Lights published “Shoot an Iraqi: Life, Art and Resistance Under the Gun,” about Bilal’s life and the Domestic Tension project.