Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
shines with new works, curator
There are a lot of new
things to see at the Samuel
Dorsky Museum including
two exhibitions and a new
staff member.
“Anxious Objects:
Definition and Divergence in
Contemporary Craft” is on
display in the West Wing’s
Chandler and North galleries
through Aug. 13. This juried
exhibition features various
craft media works by emerging
and mid-career artists
from the region who have not
had a major one-person exhibition,
and are not currently
represented by a commercial
gallery. Gretchen Keyworth,
director/chief curator of the
Fuller Craft Museum in
Brockton, Mass., serves as
show juror.
Meanwhile, beginning July
1, “Museum, Mission and
Meaning: Selected Works
from the Collections” will
open in various East Wing
galleries. The show, which
also runs through Aug. 13,
will feature works that
demonstrate the growth and
development of museum’s
collections. Included in the
show will be a survey of 19th
and 20th century American
prints, drawings, paintings,
and sculpture selected from
the permanent collection in
the Morgan Anderson Gallery.
The Howard Greenburg
Family Gallery focuses on the
museum’s extensive photography
holdings. On view in the
Corridor Gallery will be
examples from the museum’s
rarely seen world study collection,
including Chinese and
Japanese woodblock prints,
Australian bark paintings, and
pre-Colombian art and artifacts.
In the Sara Bedrick Gallery,
and also taking place from
July 1 to Aug. 13, will be
“Kaaterskill,” an exhibition of
landscape photographs by
local artist Susan Wides.
The museum’s free
“Conversations” series continues
over the summer with
three different sets of Anxious
Objects artists at 11:30 a.m.
on Wednesday July 12, 19,
and 26. For more information
on current and upcoming
exhibitions and programs,
visit the SDMAWeb site at
www.newpaltz.edu/museum/.
Exhibits are not the only
new things that can be found
at the museum. In early June,
Brian Wallace joined the
staff as museum curator. His
responsiblities include organizing
temporary exhibitions,
assisting in the development
and presentations of the permanent
collection, and working
with campus departments.
Wallace is at work on an
October 2006 show, “Self
Portraits From the New
Millennium,” that includes
collaborative self-portraits by
Lilla LoCurto and William
Outcault, artists applying new
technological methods to traditional
art forms.
Wallace earned his bachelor’s
degree in history and art
history at Ithaca College and
his master’s at the Center for
Curatorial Studies and Art in
Contemporary Culture at Bard
College in Annandale-on-
Hudson.
Wallace is eager to collaborate
with his colleagues at the
museum, including Neil
Trager (Director), Wayne
Lempka (Art Collections
Manager) and Judi Esmond (Museum Educator).
Wallace has experience
presenting art in public spaces
and that is something he
would like to explore here
with help from such entities
as the Department of Art
Education and such communications
venues as the campus
television and radio stations.
"I am delighted to welcome
Brian Wallace to the SDMA
team. He comes to us with an
impressive record of curatorial
projects and museum experience,
which will enhance all
aspects of our public programming
and service to the
campus," said Trager. |
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JUNE 19, 2006
Volume 4, Issue 12
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