Current Exhibitions
BFA/MFA Thesis Exhibitions
April 26 – May 21, 2013
Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery

At the end of each semester, students graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts or Master of Fine Arts degree exhibit artwork created as part of their thesis projects in the museum's west wing. Exhibitions are designed and installed by the students, under the supervision of the Curator of Exhibitions and the museum Preparator. Works from the following are included: Ceramics, Graphic Design, Metals, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, as well as multi-media installations.
BFA I
ceramics: Bri Murphy / Amanda Scotto
metal: Allison Geist
painting & drawing: Jennifer Curtis / Kimberly Marra / Jane McCambley / Diana Naccarato / Dylan Robinson / Carmen Siu / Simeon Youngmann
photography: Michelle Cambi / Linda Edwards / Sara Hulse / Sienna Klaas Puleo / Shelley Weresnick
printmaking: Christina Bartonicek Sebastian Bauer
BFA II
ceramics: Shannon O'Leary
metals: Katie Johnston
painting & drawing: Katie Berka / Chloe Brittenham / Megan Porpeglia
photography: Caroline AdamsClark / Alex Fabiano / Donald Hyatt / Jun Li / Peter Nicholson / Kate Truisi / Benjamin Warner / Safia Zouioueche
printmaking: Keri Sheheen
sculpture: Kat Cas / Sarah Grange
MFA I
ceramics: Geoffrey Booras / David Kaufmann
metals: Cameron Andersen / Lynn Batchelder / Missy Graff / Shoji Miyazawa / Hyun Kyung Park
printmaking: Jon Irving / Todd Martin / Marena Mitchell
MFA II
ceramics: Julianna Brazill / Jason Farnsworth / Rebecca May Verrill
painting & drawing: Faheem Haider / Dina White
printmaking: Carmen Doyon / Clarissa Plank
sculpture: Jesse Birden / Priscilla Dobler / Maureen McCourt
Fields of Vision: Work by SUNY New Paltz Art Faculty
Curated by Carl Van Brunt
April 13 – June 23, 2013
Morgan Anderson Gallery, Howard Greenberg Family Gallery, and Corridor Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, April 12, 5-7 pm

In our post-modern society, the art world is both more connected and more fragmented than ever before. New York City, once the capital of that world, is now just one of a network of regional centers spanning the globe. And close-up, contemporary practices appear to be a mash-up of disparate concepts, political agendas, media, and styles. Fields of Vision explores how art and design being made by full-time Department of Art faculty at the State University of New York at New Paltz fits into this local/global picture.
See also: http://wwww.newpaltz.edu/art/fieldsofvision.html
The Dorsky Collects: Recent Acquisitions 2008-2012
Curated by Wayne LempkaJanuary 23 – June 23, 2013 **(Closed 3/23 – 4/12, 2013)
Sara Bedrick Gallery
Opening reception: Saturday, February 2, 2013, 5–7 pm

Like all museums, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art depends on the generosity of others when it comes to expanding its permanent collection. This exhibition focuses on a representative selection of both two- and three-dimensional artworks created by artists from around the world which have come into the museum's collection from 2008 through the present year.
George Bellows: Selections from the 'War Series' Prints
Curated by Wayne Lempka
Seminar Room
April 13 – June 23, 2013

George Bellows, Base Hospital, 1918, Gift of the Collection of Arthur Anderson, 2002.079.006
In the spring of 1918, the American painter George Bellows began a series of lithographs that focused on atrocities committed during the First World War. Profoundly affected by a 1914 articles in the New York Times, Bellows resolved to give visual expression to what he had read. The lithographs on display pay tribute not only to Bellow's participation in the 1913 New York City Armory Show, whose centennial is celebrated this year, but also to the ensuing influence this ground breaking exhibition had on Woodstock's artists.
