Earthly Delights, curated by Susan Jennings, Ellen Letcher and Julie Torres, will present artwork of vastly varying sizes and media from 50 artists. The works will be installed directly on the gallery floor— without supports, pedestals, or work on the walls— to create an intimate and tantalizing installation without the hierarchy of placement. By exhibiting artwork on a level playing field, the curators hope to enable a grounding experience of attentive and active looking. Please join us for a stroll through this labyrinthine garden of work at equal footing.
The Artists: Adrian Meraz, Alexander Ross, Ashley Yang-Thompson/Miss Expanding Universe, Becca Van K,Carl D’Alvia, Christina Tenaglia, Claire Sherwood, Claudia Tienan, Colin O’Con, Courtney Puckett,Courtney Tramposh ,Dan Devine,Daniella Dooling, Elisa Lendvay, Elisa Soliven, George Spencer, Gelah Penn, Guy Walker, Jeff Starr, Jess Gaddis, Joan Grubin, Katharine Umsted, KK Kozik, Laura Kaufman, Leah Guadagnoli, Linda Stillman, Madison LaVallee, Matt Frieburghaus, Meg Lipke, Michael Tong, Michelle Segre, Millicent Young, Monique Luchetti, Nicole Cherubini, Nikako Kanamoto, Nurya Chana, Stuart Farmery, Stephen Maine, Susan Meyer, Susan Scott, Tamara Zahaykevich, Terri Moore, Will Simons
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Hudson Valley artists create concept of time travel in Dorsky Exhibit
Poughkeepsie Journal
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s ninth annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibit is open and this year, Anastasia James, curator of Exhibitions and Programs, asked artists to submit work that engages with the concept of time travel.
With more than 290 submissions, James selected 11 artists to exhibit their work in “Time Travelers.” In her curatorial statement, James wrote: “Physicists have long discussed the possibility of curves that form closed loops in space-time, allowing objects to return to their past.”
As visitors enter the gallery, there is a feeling of spaciousness with the selection of fewer artists.
Michael Berstein’s colorful pieces are strung through the ceiling struts and tied down with weights. Their bright colors and designs might remind viewers of the Quilters of Gee’s Bend.
Kyle Cottier creates work informed by architectural forms created out of found raw materials, such as wood, rope and stones. Two of his shaman-like pieces are featured on the central floor space of the main gallery.
Harry Leigh’s wall-mounted sculptural wood piece “Journey” is at the far end of the gallery — the dimly lit space creates a sense of reverence, as if visitors are entering a sacred space. The curved and linear wood structure reads as if it could be a deity from another time, aligning with the space-time continuum.
Alison McNulty, “Untitled (Hudson Valley Ghost Column 1)” was created from historic Hudson Valley-made Lahey bricks and originally installed on a working farm’s path to an animal’s watering hole. The hollow brick column is constructed with Cormo sheep wool instead of mortar, resulting in an artwork that pays homage to past industries that were the economic heart of the Hudson Valley.
Daniela Dooling also turns to obsolete techniques with her sculptural pieces created from vintage typewriters preserved in clear resin. Dooling’s works reference a personal history with a great-grandmother that typed more than 2,000 pages documenting messages she received from a peace envoy traveling on spaceships from Venus to Earth. The works are wall-mounted with what appears to be surgical steel armatures, giving the works the feel of entering a lab to see historic specimens that have in the past provided messages that could be important today.
Antonella Piemontese creates sculptural hand-sewn fabric masks. Her suite of works, “Twelve Angry Masks,” are installed in one line across the gallery wall. Each mask has individual characteristics, however, they feel foreboding since many of them have no way to see out. Piemontese provided background about her idea in making the masks that seems like the opening to a science fiction story that begins: “In a not so distant future, preserving anonymity will be essential to in-person human interaction.” If each person must choose which mask to wear, this foretells a future not yet in sight, but with historical references to ancient rituals.
Yvonne Muller’s beautiful abstract prints have meanings that can be teased out from the titles, such as, “Raven,” “Snake,” “Mouse.” Muller “challenges the viewer to think about whether time travel is something humans do or whether time, itself, travels around.”
Linda Marston-Reid is an artist, writer, and executive director of Arts Mid-Hudson. The column appears every other week in Enjoy! Contact her at 845-454-3222 or lmr@artsmidhudson.org
If you go
“Time Travelers” is on view at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, through Nov. 11. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday-Sunday (the museum is open only on weekends in August)
“Special Time Travelers” related events:
2-3 p.m., July 15: Gallery talk with exhibiting artists Alison McNulty, Antonella Piemontese, Harry Leigh and Tony Moore
First presented in 2011, carriage trade’s Social Photography exhibitions have catalogued the rapid transformation of cell phone photography over the last several years. From a novelty medium existing between the voice and text functions of flip phones, to the smart phone as near physical appendage capable of recording and transmitting every waking moment, the cell phone camera now plays a pervasive role in many people’s lives.
While Instagram tends to emphasize the medium’s social utility, carriage trade’s Social Photography exhibitions have tracked an alternate course, inviting participants and viewers to encounter these images in a format free of peer-generated tallies, while offering the option of a sustained look afforded by a gallery setting. Social Photography contributors are not limited to visual artists, and include writers, curators, musicians, students, etc., reflecting the accessibly and ubiquity of cell phone camera use.
Some of this years’ participants are: Peggy Ahwesh, Dennis Adams, Diana Al-Hadid, Liz Deschenes,Tracy Emin, Barbara Ess, Hal Foster, Ceal Floyer, Dan Graham, Beatrice Gross, Emily Hunt, Sarah Meister, Thurston Moore, Neil Jenney, Louise Lawler, Lee Ranaldo, Asad Raza, Walter Robinson, John Schabel, Molly Soda, Barry Schwabsky, Carol Szymanski, among many others.
Functioning as a benefit exhibition to help support upcoming programming at carriage trade, there is no particular theme guiding Social Photography VI apart from how the cell phone camera is most often used. Participants email images from their phones to carriage trade, which are then formatted, printed on 7″ x 5″ paper, and sold online and in the gallery during the exhibition.
Less a sanctioning of an evolving medium than a hybrid of a traditional exhibition format and the wider net of social media, Social Photography also functions as a means to sustain and expand carriage trade’s community, which exists in the combined spheres of online experience and the irreplaceable physicality of the exhibition space itself.
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“The Egg” opening at LABspace on Friday, August 1, 6-8 pm.
Featuring works by David Armstrong, Lisa Beck, Ayn Choi, Daniella Dooling, Jason Fox, Erik Hanson, David G Krueger, Justine Kurland, LoVid, Heidi Marben, Paul McMahon, Laurie Thomas, Jackie Saccoccio, Katy Schneider, Cindy Sherman, and Cynthia Zinser. Performance of my “Room 10 Rants” with Les LeVeque on Saturday, August 2nd at 7pm!
