Upcoming Exhibitions
Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist
Curated by Susana Torruella Leval
February 11 — July 12, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, February 10, 2012, 5-7 pm
Eugene Ludins, Self Portrait with Pipe, 1928-31, Private Collection
This important exhibition offers a retrospective view of the 70-year career of Eugene Ludins, a Woodstock painter of realistic and allegorical landscapes and insightful portraits. Beginning with his residency at the Maverick colony in Woodstock in 1929 and until his death 1996, Ludins was a leading member of the Hudson Valley arts community, Ulster County Director of the Federal Arts Program of the WPA from 1937-39, and an avid baseball player. Sixty paintings, thirty drawings, sketchbooks, photographs and memorabilia, and two sculptures by Ludins’ wife, sculptor Hannah Small, illuminate the life of an artist who was both unique and emblematic of his time.
Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012
Curated by Linda Weintraub
Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery
June 23 – November 4, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 23, 2012, 5-7 pm
Each year The Dorsky Museum invites artists to submit proposals for its annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition series, which is open to artists from Columbia, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties. This year’s exhibition, Dear Mother Nature, will be organized by Linda Weintraub, author, educator, curator and founder of the art publication Artnow. She invites artists to answer the question, “What would you send Mother Nature? A trophy? Condolences? A love letter? A care package? A medal of honor? Or a warning?"
Russel Wright: The Nature of Design
Curated by Donald Albrecht and Dianne Pierce
Morgan Anderson, Howard Greenberg Family and Corridor Galleries
August 29 – December 16, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 2012, 5-7 pm
Organized by the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in partnership with Manitoga: The Russel Wright Design Center in Garrison, NY, this exhibition focuses on artist/craftsman/landscape designer Russel Wright’s work and philosophy. Striving for an egalitarian ideal of high-quality modern design for all, Russel Wright and his wife Mary revolutionized the American home and the way people lived in it. Russel’s inexpensive, mass-produced dinnerware, furniture, appliances, and textiles were not only visually and technically innovative, but were also the tools to achieve the Wrights’ concept of ”easier living”—a uniquely American lifestyle that was gracious yet informal and that brought man and nature into harmony.
Shinohara Pops! The Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York
Curated by Hiroko Ikegami with Reiko Tomii
Sara Bedrick Gallery
August 29 – December 16, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 2012, 5-7 pm
This exhibition examines the 50-year career of Ushio Shinohara, an indispensable player in the field of global art history. Born in Japan in 1932, Shinohara was active in the Tokyo avant-garde art scene. From 1958-64, a critically important period of postwar Japanese art, he was a notorious regular of the annual Yomiuri Independent Exhibition and a founding member of a short-lived avant-garde group Neo Dada. Known for his Mohawk hairdo, he invented Boxing Painting, his version of “true” action.
