Autumn 2009

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Studio Student Exhibition: Painting, Sculpture and Drawing
Curators: Maurizio Pellegrin & Joy Moser
November 30-December 11, 2009; Reception: Friday, December 4, 4-7 pm

Arts Administration & Student Advocates for the Arts (SAA) Exhibition Gala Week
Curators: Jonathan Lewis & Daria Pennington (SAA & ARAD)
December 14-18, 2009; Reception: Friday, December 18, 4-7 pm


CURRENT EXHIBITION

Cross Cultural Conversations in the Arts - Bridging Discourses
Curators: Judith M. Burton & Olga Hubard
November 16-25, 2009; Reception: Friday, November 20, 4-7 pm



PAST EXHIBITIONS

Visions in New York City - Short Film Festival
Curator: Maurizio Pellegrin; Assistant Curator: Heather Van Uxem Lewis
November 2-13, 2009; Reception: Friday, November 13, 6-9 pm


Myers Prizes 2009-2010
Curator: Razia Sadik -  October 21-30, 2009; Reception: Friday, October 30, 5-8 pm


Collective Clarity: An Interactive Installation of screen-prints from the Printmaking Studio
Curators: Mahbobe Ghods and the MIV Group -  October 5-16, 2009; Reception: Friday, October 16, 6-9 pm




The Dow Collection
Curator: Razia Sadik - September 21-October 2, 2009; Reception: Friday, September 25, 4-7 pm





RECENT EXHIBITIONS

Spring 2009

Latin American Art presented by ALAS (Association of Latin American Students at TC)
Senior Curators: Marcelo De Stefano and Javier Iturralde de Bracamonte
June 9-19, 2009; Reception: Tuesday, June 9, 6-8 pm


Student Teacher Exhibition
Curator: Renee Darvin and Student Teachers - May 4-18, 2009; Reception: May 8, 5-8 pm

Burkina Faso: Portraits by Patricia Blanchet  (exhibition canceled)
Curator: Kristine Roome - May 4-18, 2009; Reception: May 22, 5-8 pm

Student Spring Exhibition: work from the studio classes of Printmaking, Photography, Sculpture and Exploratory Investigation
Curators: Harrigan Bowman, Judith Burton, Dona Clovis, Mariah Doren, Mahbobe Gowds, Maurizio Pellegrin, Jerry Vezuzu - April 20-May 1, 2009; Reception: April 24, 5-8 pm

Lines: Advanced Studio Exhibition
Curator: Maurizio Pellegrin - April 6-19, 2009; Reception: April 10, 6-8 pm

Harlem Expressions: TRUCE youth Artists Explore Community
Curators: Kim Elniski, Laura Vural - March 23-April 3, 2009; Reception March 27, 5-8 pm


Italian Works on Paper: Part 1
Curator: Maurizio Pellegrin - March 2-13, 2009


Adolescent Voices: The work of students from the Frank Sinatra High School
Curator: Judith M. Burton - February 16-27, 2009; Reception: February 20, 5-8pm


Tribal Art from Africa - in collaboration with Bangally African Expo, New York
February 2-13, 2009;  Reception: Fri, February 6, 5-8pm


Children's Artwork from the Rita Gold Early Childhood Center
January 19-30, 2009;  Reception: Fri, January 23, 5-8pm


Autumn 2008

Student Work:  Fall Student Exhibition painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media
December 1-12, 2008;  Reception: Fri, December 5, 5-8pm


Richard Jochum: Intersections & Interstices
November 3-28, 2008;  Reception: Thurs, Nov 6, 6-9pm; Myers Gallery Talk: Thurs, Nov 20, 4-5pm


South Asian Imaginarie: Art, Video and Music from South Asia
Symposium, Exhibition and Concert - Oct. 30-Nov.1, 2008


Chinese Flavor: A Collection of Zheng Qinyan's Landscape Paintings and Calligraphic Works
September 29-October 10, 2008; Reception: Friday, October 3 (5-8pm)


Centered Vision, Collected Conversation
Recent Drawings and Paintings from Independent Studio Work
September 15-27, 2008; Reception: Friday, September 19


The Ziegfeld Collection
Monday, September 8-Friday, September 12, 2008


Summer 2008

Dividing Lines - the question of gentrification in East Harlem - works from the Heritage School
July 31, 2008; One-day Exhibition and Reception: Thursday, July 31


Spring 2008

"We Heart Art!" Presented by the Rita Gold Preschool Artists
Monday, Feb. 19-Friday, Feb. 23; Reception Friday, Feb. 23 - Curated by Dana Frantz

The School
The Rita Gold Early Childhood Center serves to promote the growth and development of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their families through three inter-related practices: supportive early care and education for young children, Tran disciplinary preparation for graduate students, and ongoing research to improve practice and inform theory in child and family development and care. Founded in 1982 as the Center for Infants and Parents and located at Teachers College, the Center now provides inclusive and culturally responsive care for infants, toddlers, preschool children, and their families who are affiliated with Columbia University.

The Artists
The artists of the Rita Gold Early Childhood Center “We Heart Art!” Show all hail from the Rita Gold preschool classroom.  They are all between the ages of three and five.  Their artwork is the result of six months of work in the art studio during which their artistic voices have grown immensely.  Their engagement in the program is the result of personal choice; each child determines his or her level of involvement in the art class and these rich works of art result from their independence and sense of agency in the art classroom as well as in the program as a whole.  These are their individual artistic voices and demonstrate to the viewer their unique way of interpreting and existing in the world.

The Accessible Arts Program
The Accessible Arts Program is a curriculum based upon the voice and understanding of the child and the development of an empowered visual literacy in the preschool years.  It was adapted for the Rita Gold Early Childhood Center to support the constructivist learning of this child-centered curriculum.  In the program students are exposed to a wide range of artists and art images.  All art experiences are begun with a conversation which encourages students to use their own understanding of the world to navigate the art they are viewing.  They learn to explore, discuss, and imagine about the works done by other artists and to respond with their own works of art.  This focus on conversation and imagination empowers the students to speak about the broader range of art as a whole, and to reflect in thoughts, words, and art to the world around them.  The objective of this program is to provide a foundation of independence, artistic confidence, and aesthetic literacy which students will be able to harness and apply as they explore the visual world.


"Short Stories"
Photographs 1890-2006
curated by Maurizio Pellegrin
Catalogue available.


The photographs in this exhibition have been produced over the course of many decades.  Many cultures, stories and poetics are unveiled in these works. Each of them is very personal and important, and very strongly devoted to the partial contribution to what is known as the philosophical debate of the world. For example, years of silence and noise are revealed by the enigmatic, historical portrait of Mayakovsky by Aleksandr Rodchenko, who shot this photograph during the twenties. It is as if the glance of the poet in the portrait was reviewing the history of time while investigating the future.

Different attitudes, different generations and different issues inspire the photographs here. This exhibition sole ambition is to let the viewer dream around and about a selection of works of more than 30 artists, at a time when great institutions have already presented important photography shows, and so many artists in this field have already been celebrated. In the current selection, the viewer will encounter black and white, and color photographs based on image manipulation, manipulation of the real photographic surface, portrait, landscape, body, conceptual elements, abstraction, social statements and more.

Issues of presence, absence, space, time, conflict, superimposition, analogy and visionary variety, in both a real or virtual context, have been explored by these artists. Some of them record the structure of events, others suggest an archaic aura, mechanical images or aestheticist models. Still other works navigate in the subjectivisation of the photograph, and in some cases, in a sort of intrusive realism or in the speed of a simple snapshot.  Years of silence and noise have given rise to these photographs where at the end, a small suspended time is a reason for living.

Maurizio Pellegrin
New York, December 2006


LIST OF THE ARTISTS:
Anonymous 1890 - Anonymous 1950 - Giovanni Anselmo - Karl Blossfeldt - Alighiero Boetti -
James Casebere - Antonia Contro - Thomas Joshua Cooper - Mark Curran - Douglas Davis - Andrea Frank - Valeriy Gerlovin and Rimma Gerlovina - Rick Hards - Candida Höfer - Sangbin IM - Martin Kipppenberger -
Mark Klett - Marcus Leatherdale - David Levinthal - Jeannette Louie - Chema Madoz - Matt Marello -
Allan McCollum - Domingo Milella - Nzingah Muhammed - Ugo Mulas - Ferhat Özgür - Désirée Palmen - Giuseppe Penone - Florio Puenter - Aleksandr Rodchenko - Paolo Mussat Sartor - Joyce Tenneson -
Leonid  Tsvetkov - Gillian  Wearing - William Wegman

Monday, Mar.19-Friday, Apr.13, 2007

Reception Mar.30

 

Monday, Apr.16-Friday, Apr.20

Curated by Shervone Neckles

Curated by Renee Darvin - Monday, Apr.23-Friday, May 4

 

Monday, May 7-Friday, May 18