Current Exhibitions
The Leonardo Series: Drawings by Anthony Panzera Based on the Work of Leonardo da Vinci
Organized by the staff of The Dorsky Museum
January 18 — April 15, 2012
Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, February 10, 2012, 5-7 pm
Anthony Panzera, AP 127, from the Leonardo Series, n.d., collection the artist
This exhibition features 65 drawings by Anthony Panzera based on Leonardo da Vinci's notes and drawings on the human form retrieved from some 7,000 pages of Leonardo's notebooks. Panzera's drawings and additional information sheets illustrate entries from Leonardo's notes on the relative proportions of the head, torso, leg, foot, arm, hand, and whole body, and exemplify the humanistic orientation and intellectual concerns of Leonardo da Vinci.
Reading Objects 2011: Responses to the Museum Collection
Organised by the staff of the Dorsky Museum
February 11, 2012 — July 12, 2012
Sara Bedrick Gallery
Re-opening Reception, Friday, February 10, 5-7 pm
Reading Objects 2011 is part of an ongoing, interdisciplinary series featuring works from the permanent collection of The Dorsky Museum. The artworks are accompanied by texts or other responses prepared by SUNY New Paltz faculty, staff and (new this year) students.
Exhibitions such as Reading Objects is one of a number of ways that The Dorsky Museum is able to periodically display selections from its permanent collection of over 5000 objects. Like the majority of museums, The Dorsky has many fine examples of art works from diverse cultures and time periods that never see the light of day. It is these works—the ones that are housed in the dark recesses of museum storage—that this Reading Objects exhibition highlights.
Garry Winogrand, New York City, New York, 1969, gift of Ronald Lesser
