Upcoming Exhibitions
Along His Own Lines: A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher
Curated by Valerie Leeds
February 5, 2014 — July 13, 2014
Morgan Anderson Gallery, Howard Greenberg Family Gallery, and Corridor
Opening reception: Saturday, February 8, 5–7 pm
Eugene Speicher, Girl in a Coral Necklace, c. 1935, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in., 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.
Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos
Curated by Daniel Belasco
January 22 – April 13, 2014
Alice and Horace Chandler and North Galleries
Opening reception: Saturday, February 8, 5–7 pm
Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley, Still from Priapus Agonistes, 2013, HD video, sound, 15 min. 9 sec., Courtesy of Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York
Mary Reid Kelley's visually rich and intellectually stimulating video art converses with history. Fusing techniques of live performance and stop-motion animation, Reid Kelley creates poignant characters who declaim in droll verse, blending Homer and Cindy Sherman. Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos will be the first museum exhibition devoted to the finely crafted and researched costumes, objects, and drawings that Mary Reid Kelley creates for her videos, in collaboration with Patrick Kelley. These working objects reveal Reid Kelley as a master of the contemporary impulse to work across and synthesize art media.
1980s Style: Image and Design in The Dorsky Museum Collection
Curated by Daniel Belasco
February 5 — July 13, 2014
Sara Bedrick Gallery
Opening reception: Saturday, February 8, 5–7 pm
Barbara Kasten, Untitled, 1983-1985, Cibachrome on paper, 20 x 24 in., Gift of Monique Goldstrom, 2001.086.002
The 1980s had a look all its own. 1980s Style includes prints, photographs, and jewelry from the collection of The Dorsky Museum that exemplify the stark geometries and vibrant colors of the decade. The exhibition asks to what extent are bold shapes, bright colors, asymmetry, and cartoonish figuration the visual and formal manifestations of emotional turmoil and artistic activism? Featuring work by Tina Barney, Richard Bosman, Jackie Ferrara, Frank Gillette, Lisa Gralnick, Barbara Kasten, George McNeil, Judy Pfaff, Andy Warhol, and others.
