SPRING 2008
WEST WING
April 25 - April 29
BFA I Thesis Exhibition
Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery & North Gallery
May 2 - May 6
BFA II Thesis Exhibition
Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery & North Gallery
May 9 to May 13
MFA I Thesis Exhibition
Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery & North Gallery
May 16 to May 20
MFA II Thesis Exhibition
Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery & North Gallery
SUMMER 2008
WEST WING
June 6 – September 7
Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery
North Gallery
Hudson Valley Artist Series 2008: The Medium is the Message
Each year the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art invites emerging and mid-career artists living in Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, Columbia, and Greene Counties to submit documentation of their work for this juried exhibition. Hudson Valley Artists 2008: The Medium is the Message refers to the phrase coined by philosopher Marshall McLuhan in 1964. McLuhan’s iconic term posits that the medium (in his case television) actually creates meaning. This year’s Hudson Valley Artist exhibition takes McLuhan’s notion and further expands it to include all forms of artistic expression in which the medium is integral to the meaning of the finished work. Guest Juror Denise Markonish, curator at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, will review all work submitted, including painting, photography, video, web projects, sculpture, installation, etc., and organize an exhibition of recent artwork that will explore the materiality of art-making and the meaning inherent in artists' choice of media.
Opening reception: Friday, June 6, 5:00-8:00pm
EAST WING
Howard Greenberg Family Gallery
June 27 – September 28
All Hot and Bothered: Photographs from the Center for Photography at Woodstock
Co-curated by Ariel Shanberg, CPW executive director, and Brian Wallace, SDMA curator, this exhibition features recent work by photographers, including Vagner Whitehead, Gloria Nimetz, and Paul Anthony, that explore connections between privacy and expressivity. The works are drawn from recent acquisitions to the permanent collection of the Center for Photography at Woodstock, which are on extended loan to the SDMA through a collection-sharing partnership established in 1995.
Opening reception: Friday, July 11, 5:00-8:00pm
Corridor Gallery
July 11 – September 28
Noongar Boodja: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Ecology and Culture
This exhibition features paintings by three Noongar artists—Athol Farmer, Troy Bennell and Graham Taylor—inspired by drawings of the so-called Stolen Generation of Aboriginal children who were incarcerated at the Carrolup Native Settlement in Katanning in Western Austrialia.
Opening reception: Friday, July 11, 5:00-8:00pm
