Upcoming Exhibitions
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
 Andrea Frank, Plant #1, 2012 |
Thomas Albrecht / Robin Arnold / Jamie Bennett Steven P. Bradford / Rimer Cardillo / Amy Cheng / Bryan Czibesz / François Deschamps / |
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.
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.
Hudson Valley Artists 2013: Screen Play
Curated by Daniel Belasco
June 22 — November 10, 2013
Alice and Horace Chandler and North Galleries
Screens, whether in pockets, cars or public spaces, have become a nearly ubiquitous interface. For Screen Play, artists are encouraged to submit work that responds to or uses screens as a material, process, or metaphor. Screens as varied as carpets and textiles, painted canvases, projected images, and digital monitors serve as poetic and practical means to translate experience from one realm to another. Philosopher Vilem Flusser wrote that the screen "assembles experience, processes it, and disseminates it." Screens are surfaces upon which we project memories, stories, and desires, or are physical materials that selectively record them.
This year's 7th annual exhibition of work by artists from the mid Hudson Valley, Screen Play, will be organized by Daniel Belasco, The Dorsky Museum's newly appointed Curator of Exhibitions and Programs.
Anonymous: Tibetan Contemporary Art
Curated by Rachel Weingeist
July 20 – December 15, 2013
Losang Gyatso, Jokhang #2 (from the series "Signs from Tibet"), 2008
Anonymous seeks to explore the tension between an ancient culture's unbroken artistic tradition of anonymity and the personality-driven world of contemporary art. By examining attitudes towards attribution in shifting cultural contexts, we ask the question: how do practitioners in the emerging field of Tibetan contemporary art react to and reinterpret their predecessors' anonymous past, and what role does anonymity play in the changing landscape of contemporary Tibetan culture?
Along His Own Lines: A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher
Curated by Valerie Leeds
February 5, 2014 — July 13, 2014
Eugene Speicher, Girl in a Coral Necklace, ca. 1935, oil on canvas, Private Collection
New York painter Eugene Speicher (1883-1962) was one of the foremost American realists of his generation, closely associated with George Bellows, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, and Rockwell Kent. Born in Buffalo, NY, Speicher first garnered national recognition in the 1910s for his incisive portraits of actors, artists, and friends, which were collected by many prominent American museums. Splitting his professional time between New York City and Woodstock, NY, Speicher expanded his repertoire to include still life, nudes, and landscape. Along His Own Lines will be the first Speicher museum survey since 1963. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue will explore Speicher's role in the Woodstock art colony and the New York art world and reevaluate his place in the canon of early twentieth-century American art.
