2008 – 2013
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Curated by Donald Albrecht and Dianne Pierce August 29 — December 16, 2012 Russel Wright: The Nature of Design explores the work and philosophy of renowned industrial designer Russel Wright, whose former home in the Hudson Valley—Manitoga—is now a national historic landmark. The exhibition focuses on one of Wright's most pervasive preoccupations, which also has much relevance today: the relationship of humankind with the natural world. While examining Wright's entire career from the 1920s through the 1970s, this exhibition will focus on his work between 1945 and 1968, when Wright increasingly designed in experimental and innovative ways. |
 Ushio Shinohara, [two motorcycles with oiran], 2011 |
Shinohara Pops! The Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York
Curated by Hiroko Ikegami with Reiko Tomii August 29 — December 16, 2012 This exhibition examined 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.
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 Elisa Pritzker, Zipped Trunks, 2010 |
Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012 Curated by Linda Weintraub June 23 — November 4, 2012 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, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties. This year's exhibition 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? |
 Eugene Ludins, Pastoral, 1965, Estate of Eugene Ludins |
Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist Curated by Susana Torruella Leval February 11 — July 15, 2012 A retrospective view of the 70-year career of Eugene Ludins, a Woodstock painter. 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 Co. Director of the Federal Arts Program of the WPA, and an avid baseball player. 100+ paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, photographs and memorabilia, and two sculptures by Ludins' wife, sculptor Hannah Small, illuminated the life of an artist who was both unique and emblematic of his time. TO READ THE NY TIMES ARTICLE ABOUT THIS EXHIBITION, CLICK HERE. |
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Joe Concra, Study: Sudden Ray of Hope, 1994, anonymous gift, 1999.021.002 |
Reading Objects 2011: Responses to the Museum Collection Organized by Dorsky Museum Staff February 11 — July 15, 2012 Reading Objects 2011 is part of an ongoing, interdisciplinary series featuring works from the permanent collection of The Dorsky Museum. The works on display are accompanied by texts or other responses prepared by SUNY New Paltz faculty, staff and (new this year) students |
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 Anthony Panzera, AP 103, from The Leonardo Series, n.d, Collection the Artist |
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 This exhibition featured 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. |
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Linking Collections, Building Connections: Works from the Hudson Valley Visual Art Consortium Collections August 24 — December 11, 2011 Bringing to light over 150 artworks and the myriad of connections that link them together, this exhibition presents fresh perspectives on a century of artistic activity in the Mid-Hudson Valley. The exhibition gathers together paintings, sculptures, furnishings, prints, drawings, photographs, conceptual works, and documentation and ephemera from the permanent collections of the partner organizations of the Hudson Valley Visual Art Consortium Collections (HVVACC). |
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Charles Geiger, Out of Sight, 2010, courtesy the artist |
Hudson Valley Artists 2011: Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty Curated by Brian Wallace June 25 — November 13, 2011 Hudson Valley Artists 2011: Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty will feature selected works by artists living and working in the mid Hudson Valley who dare to address that most elusive of qualities: the beautiful. We sought a wide range of submissions that range from beautiful images and craftsmanship to works that question the idea and/or ideal of beauty. |
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Ken Landauer, Untitled (bed), 2009, Ink on paper, Courtesy the artist |
Thick and Thin: Ken Landauer and Julianne Swartz Curated by Brian Wallace April 9 – October 23, 2011 Ken Landauer and Julianne Swartz, independent artists and a married couple, have produced distinct bodies of work that complement one another in process, form, and effect but have never before exhibited or made work together. Landauer's drawings and objects play with scale and humor to provoke realizations about our expectations about representation and abstraction. Swartz's sculptures, installations, and architectural interventions shift our perceptions of space, form, and light. |
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Tim Davis, Lawn Jockey Leap Frog, 2010 (video still), courtesy the artist and Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY |
The Upstate New York Olympics: Tim Davis Curated by Brian Wallace March 30 – July 17, 2011
Tim Davis has developed a series of video and installation works and objects entitled The Upstate New York Olympics. A suite of 12-15 videos accompanied by bronze trophies and other commemorative objects, project documentation, and a small artist-designed publication. |
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The Illustrious Mr. X: Museum Collection as Character Study Curated by Greg Slick and Karlos Carcamo Volume I: August 18 – December 12, 2010 This exhibition endeavors to provide an alternative perspective on the museum's permanent collection by employing the conceit of personification. The exhibition gathers thematic groups of objects, each of which serves to bear the weight of representing a facet of a fictional life. The thematic groupings include family, relationships, food, music, travel, dreams, etc., and have the double purpose of organizing the display of selected objects and of supporting the exhibition’s overarching narrative, namely, the construction of a personality. The embodiment of personal traits is arguably what makes objects attractive, repulsive, even coherent to us. This exhibition looks at these inherent qualities to explore our personal and often complex connection to art objects and the associations that art engenders. |
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From Huguenot to Microwave: New and Recent Works by Marco Maggi Curated by Brian Wallace February 12 – April 15, 2011
Marco Maggi’s obsessively minimal yet coolly detailed artworks are studies in perception that reflect back, metaphorically and physically, on the viewer. This exhibition includes recent Plexiglas-and-paper objects, altered rulers and straight edges, aluminum-foil drawings, dropped-paper works, a video projection, and a new, large-scale installation work that intervenes in the gallery space itself. |
 Coverlet (made for Hylah Hasbrouck), 1834, Locust Lawn Collection/Historic Huguenot Street, photograph by Gilbert Plantinga |
Binary Visions: 19th-Century Woven Coverlets from the Collection of Historic Huguenot Street Curated by Leslie LeFevre-Stratton and Brian Wallace January 26 – March 18, 2011
This exhibition, selected from the extensive textile collections at Historic Huguenot Street, will feature thirty coverlets woven from cotton and wool on water-powered looms in small factories across the mid-Hudson Valley during the first half of the 19th century. |
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Beth Yarnelle Edward, Erin, Age 11, 1998, |
Thoughts of Home: Photographs from the Center for Photography at Woodstock Permanent Collection Curated by Wayne Lempka January 26 – March 18, 2011
This exhibition deploys photographs from the permanent collection of the Center for Photography at Woodstock—on extended loan to the museum—in a visual investigation of beauty, personal narrative, and memory. |
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Thomas Albrecht, News/Print (image from performance), 2007 |
Hudson Valley Artists 2010: Contemporary Art and Praxis Curated by Thomas Collins June 26 – November 14, 2010 Annual exhibition featuring works from artists living and working in the Hudson River Valley who demonstrate how creative practice can operate in service of theory to effect changes in the real world. |
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Andy Warhol: Private and Public in 151 Photographs April 10 – September 26, 2010 Elements of the public and private lives of Andy Warhol and members of his circle are on display in 151 Warhol photographs recently donated to the museum by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. |
 Carolee Schneemann, Exercise for Couples, 1972, gelatin silver print with hand coloring |
Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises February 6 – July 25, 2010 Over forty works spanning the career of pioneering painter, filmmaker, writer, and performance/installation artist Carolee Schneemann were featured in this edition of the Dorsky Museum’s Hudson Valley Masters exhibition series. |
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Renée Byers, from "A Mother's Journey," 2005 |
Renée C. Byer: "A Mother's Journey" and Selected Photographs January 30 – April 11, 2010
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Alberto Giacometti, Untitled, museum purchase |
Body, Line, Motion: Selections from the Permanent Collection January 30 – April 11, 2010 Guest curator, Amy Lipton This exhibition, part of an ongoing series of reinterpretations of the museum’s collections, includes works depicting human and animal forms that emphasize movement, dance, and ritualistic activity.
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Panorama of the Hudson River: Greg Miller July 11 – December 13, 2009, February 6 – March 28, 2010 A new, large, photographic panorama of the Hudson River commissioned by the Museum and modeled on earlier painted, engraved, and photographic views of the river.
TOP: Greg Miller, West Bank of the Hudson, 2009, BOTTOM: Hudson River Day Line, West bank of the Hudson at Poughkeepsie, from Panorama of the Hudson Showing Both Sides of the River form New York to Albany, before 1910 |
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The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th- Century American Landscape Paintings from the New-York Historical Society July 11 – December 13, 2009 Curated by Dr. Linda S. Ferber Forty-five 19th-century landscape paintings of the Hudson Valley area, with emphasis on works by artists of the Hudson River School. |
 Greg Miller, Saugerties Lighthouse, 2004 |
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The Hudson River—A Great American Treasure: Greg Miller September 19 – November 29, 2009 This exhibition presented twenty recent color photographs of Hudson Valley landscapes by Orange County, NY-based photographer Greg Miller. Depicting views of the river and environs from New York City's George Washington Bridge to the river's small upstate tributaries, Greg Miller's views of well-known-and less well-known-vistas capture the complexity of this important tourist destination, venue for trade and industry, and site of this country's first significant conservation efforts. |
 Hoegen&Stikker, Smoke no smoke (still), 2009 |
Inscription: Hoegen&Stikker (Philippine Hoegen and Carolien Stikker) September 19 – November 29, 2009 Inscription was an artist-residency-based multimedia investigation of perception, representation, and the Hudson River by Amsterdam-based artists Philippine Hoegen and Carolien Stikker. The exhibition was commissioned by the Dorsky Museum as part of an artist residency program celebrating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s exploration of the Hudson River. The exhibition, an artistic investigation of naming and perceiving that takes as its starting point the naming, mapping, and defining of the Hudson River, addresses fundamental questions about how we perceive and represent the world. |
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Hudson Valley Artists 2009: Ecotones and Transition Zones June 13 – September 6, 2009 The Dorsky's 2009 exhibition of work by emerging area artists surveys connections between culture and environment. Museum curator Brian Wallace selected 21 artists/artist teams from the mid-Hudson Valley and organized an exhibition featuring artwork, information, presentations, activities, and other projects connecting global issues such as sustainability, ecological awareness, and bioethics to our immediate surroundings. |
 Ben Bishop, The Birthday Party, 1968 |
analog catalog: Investigating the Permanent CollectionFebruary 14 - June 14, 2009 This exhibition presents objects from the The Dorsky's permanent collection displayed in a variety of groupings. Each of these groupings is designed to provide new perspectives on the works displayed and to draw attention to the strategies that museums use to present and contextualize objects. |
 Eva Watson-Schütze, Carl Eric Linden, ca. 1905 |
Eva Watson-Schütze: PhotographerFebruary 14 – June 14, 2009 Eva Watson-Schütze worked with Alfred Stieglitz, among other essential figures in the history of American photography, and in 1902, she became a founding member of the Photo-Secession, organized by Stieglitz to promote aesthetic photography. Watson-Schütze's rich, soft-focus platinum prints were featured in some of the major exhibitions of the time. Important examples of Schütze's photographs from all phases of her career are included in this exhibition. |
 Bradford, Graves, Dolphy 1, 1973 |
Bradford Graves: Selected Works February 14 - June 14, 2009
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 Maggie Sherwood, Village Cigars, n.d |
Taking a Different Tack: Maggie Sherwood and the Floating Foundation of PhotographyJanuary 24 – April 8, 2009 In 1969 photographer Maggie Sherwood impulsively bought a houseboat and renovated it to include a space where she could stage photography exhibitions. This was the genesis of the Floating Foundation of Photography, a regular program of group shows that began to receive significant critical attention by the early 1970s. This exhibition explores the energy and audacity of Sherwood and her circle as they invented a uniquely subversive course for the dissemination and use of photography at a key moment in its recent history |
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1996.010.012 |
Lilo Raymond: An Elegant and Natural LightOctober 11 – December 14, 2008 Lilo Raymond, a long-time resident of the Hudson Valley, has worked as a professional and fine art photographer for more than three decades. She began exhibiting her work in New York City in 1977 after studying with the renowned teacher David Vestal. Her personal work is defined by its sensitivity to light and often a unique high-key tonal range, which evokes an elegant vision and a quiet beauty. This exhibition is selected from photographs in the Dorsky Museum permanent collection and includes many recent acquisitions. |
 Zulma Steele, Byrdcliffe, ca. 1914, oil on board, Collection of the Byrdcliffe Art Colony of the |
Made by Hand: Drawings, Paintings, Photographs, and Prints from the October 11 – December 14, 2008 The Byrdcliffe artists' colony was founded in Woodstock, NY between 1902-1903 by Jane and Ralph Whitehead, Hervey White and Bolton Brown. Inspired by the philosophies of John Ruskin and William Morris, Byrdcliffe sought to create an idyllic life of self-sufficiency through the creation of handmade furniture, ceramics, jewelry, and textiles. The works on view in this exhibition are on extended loan to the Dorsky Museum from the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Arthur A. Anderson, and Douglas C. James. |
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A Muslim saint carried in a basket, ca. 1830, North India, opaque watercolor, Gift of Daniel J. Ehnbom, 1991.004 |
Reading Objects 2008March 29 – December 14, 2008Sara Bedrick Gallery Part of an ongoing interdisciplinary series featuring works from the Museum’s collection accompanied by texts written by University faculty and staff. |
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Stuart Klipper, Tabular Berg from the Astrolabe Glacier, Dumont d'Urville Sea Southern Ocean (in the immediate vicinity of the magnetic south pole), from the USCGC Polar Sea, Antartica, 1989 (from On Antartica, 1989), C-print, Gift of David A. & Helaine Dorsky, 2006.034.002 Defining Art:
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 Jamie Bennett, Florilegium 3, 2003, enamel, copper, gold, collection of Susan C. Beech |
Edge of the Sublime:
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Randy Green, Untitled, n.d., dye transfer print, CPW1995.090 |
All Hot and Bothered:
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Noongar Boodja:
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toy packaging, Courtesy the artist |
Hudson Valley Artists 2008: June 6 – September 7, 2008 Hudson Valley Artists 2008 takes Marshall McLuhan’s idea that the medium is the message and expands it to include all forms of artistic expression in which the medium is integral to the meaning of the finished work. From painting, sculpture, and photography to video, web projects, and installations, the artists explore the materiality of art-making and the meaning inherent in their choice of media. |
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Lewis Hine, Powerhouse Mechanic, 1920, gelatin silver print, |
A Discerning Vision: March 28 – June 22, 2008 Photographs from the collection of Howard Greenberg, featuring work by Consuelo Kanaga, Sid Grossman, Lewis Hine, Saul Leiter, and more. |
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Intimacies of Distant War February 8 – April 13, 2008 This exhibition, an attempt to put the current war on view and in context, brings together past and current work by Lida Abdul, Leon Golub, Daniel Heyman, An-My Lê, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann and others. These artists, in disparate but connected ways, investigate the intimate emotional impact of distant conflicts. |
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Allen Ginsberg, W.S. Burroughs (W.S.B. in |
Beat and Beyond: March 28 – July 6, 2008 Selected photographs by Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), American poet and leading apostle of the Beat Generation. Includes portraits of members of the "Beat" era of the 1950s and 1960s and self-portraits. |
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The Feminine Image: February 8 – April 13, 2008 A thematic exhibition of prints and drawings organized by SUNY New Paltz introduction to Museum Studies students Crystal Diaz, Jennifer May, Hannah Van Wely, and Einav Zamir. |
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BFA/MFA Thesis Exhibitions April 25 – May 20, 2008 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.
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Hudson River School Drawings from Dia Art Foundation January 23 – March 16, 2008 From a collection assembled by Dia Art Foundation artist Dan Flavin, this exhibition includes important drawings and oil sketches by John Kensett, Aaron Draper Shattuck, Sanford Gifford, Jasper Cropsey, and James David Smillie. The exhibition is organized by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. |
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Grace Bakst Wapner: A Scholar’s Garden January 23 – March 16, 2008 A selection of semi-abstract ceramic works based upon this Woodstock-based artist’s ruminations on natural forms as inspired by the ancient and contemplative “Scholar’s Rock” tradition in China. |
