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Below is a selection of current art exhibitions featuring Cooper Union alumni.
ONGOING EXHIBITS THROUGH 2013
Nikolai and the Others. Scenic design by Marsha Ginsberg, A '83
Nikolai and the Others
Mitzi Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center
Spring 2013 (through June 15, 2013)
Written by Richard Nelson Directed by David Cromer It's 1948 and during a spring weekend in Westport, Connecticut a close-knit group of Russian emigres, including choreographer George Balanchine, composer Igor Stravinsky, conductor Serge Koussevitsky, painter/set designer Sergey Sudeikin and composer Nikolai Nabokov, gather to eat, drink and talk. Scenic design by Marsha Ginsberg, A '83.
Lucien Smith, A Clean Sweep, Installation View, Main Gallery
Lucien Smith
Suzanne Geiss Company, 76 Grand Street, NYC
11:00 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. from now until June 22
When Mayor Rudy Giuliani took office in 1994, artist Lucien Smith, A '11 was just five years old. In his latest exhibition, “A Clean Sweep,” the now 24-year-old multimedia innovator and Cooper Union graduate goes in search of remnants of the gritty New York that were lost during the gentrification of the Giuliani era. The show is broken up into three parts: a group of free-standing brooms collected from New York City streets to symbolize the cleanup effort; 43 Polaroids of the city; and a short film narrated by writer Glenn O’Brien that will make you feel like you still live in the best city in the world. — By Araceli Cruz
Caroline Woolard (A'07). Was that you or the house? Performance at Watermill Center, 2009.
Artists Experiment
MOMA, New York City
Winter - Spring 2013
Artists Experiment is a new initiative in the Department of Education that brings together contemporary artists in dialogue with MoMA educators to conceptualize ideas for developing innovative and experimental public interactions. Caroline Woolard (A '07) collaborates with other artists and the public to create alternative economies and systems of support. Following these models, her collaborative project “Trade School,” has received global attention and is being replicated all over the world. You’ll see her this spring in MoMA’s Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building as she collaborates with us on our next MoMA Studio in May and June, 2013.
Paul Thek, Nude, Astride Zebra, c.1965 Vintage gelatin silver print 17 x 14 in.
Paul Thek And His Circle In The 1950s
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, 26 Wooster Street, NYC
April 12, 2013 to July 7, 2013
On April 12, 2013, the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art will open a groundbreaking new exhibition: Paul Thek And His Circle In The 1950s, which for the first time, examines the iconic American artist as a young man, placing him within a group of friends and lovers that provided an adoring audience and creative influence for his earliest works. The exhibition will cover the period of this artist's work from 1954 to 1964, presenting a rare insight into the world of Paul Thek, not previously explored in any other major exhibition of his work. It is co-curated by the internationally renowned expert on gay art, Jonathan David Katz, and by the notable set designer Peter Harvey, with whom Paul Thek had an early romantic relationship and a life-long friendship.
15th Annual Botanical Art Exhibit
Filoli, Woodside, California
April 16, 2013 to June 16, 2013
This beautiful exhibit has long been an essential part of the Filoli Botanical Art Program’s mission to interpret and preserve this historically significant art form. Filoli has been a leader in the renewal of this art form, which combines the observational skills of the scientist and the sensibility of the artist. Part of our commitment is to sponsor an annual nation–wide juried exhibition to showcase the best of botanical art. Artworks selected this year will be displayed in the Visitor and Education Center while select pieces from our three major florilegia collections: the Filoli, the Banks’ and the Highgrove, will be displayed in the historic house. Featuring work by Jeannetta vanRaalte, A '60.
Work by Avery Singer, A '10
The Artists
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany
April 26, 2013 to June 8, 2013
Solo-show for Gallery Weekend Berlin by Avery Singer, A '10.
Maximum Everything
Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
May 2, 2013 to June 8, 2013
Work by Zak Smith, A '98. Opening reception on Thursday, May 2 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Library of Babel, Lucy Kirkman, A '90
Library of Babel
That That, Dallas, TX
June 7, 2013 to June 21, 2013
Opening reception: Friday, June 7, 2013 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
The exhibition by Lucy Kirkman, A '09 presents imagined artifacts recovered from the infinite library described by Jorge Luis Borges. These partially dismembered books, thrown into the void, have followed some wayward path to the surfaces of her paintings. In Kirkman's paintings, book pages propagate and echo from piece to piece. Kirkman, borrowed from Yves Klein: "I begin, quite without emotion, by seizing Ariadne's thread, which for me is impalpable sensibility, new matter, and new dimension, before entering into the labyrinth of sentimentality." The assembled story, as a web of literary and art historical references, encourages your translation.
The Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time
The Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time
2013 Whitney ISP Studio Exhibition, NYC
May 31 - June 16, 2013
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The studio exhibition presents work made by participants in the 2013 Whitney Independent Study Studio Program: Ben Thorp Brown, João Enxuto, Ryan Garrett, A '06, Cassandra Guan, A '11, Adelita Husni-Bey, Caroline Key, Per-Oskar Leu, Erica Love, Sean Micka, Dawit L. Petros, Michael Poetschko, Monica Rodriguez, Jessica Vaughn, and Constantina Zavitsanos. The exhibition remains on view from May 31–June 16 at {TEMP}, 57 Walker Street (between Broadway and Church). Gallery hours are Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6 pm. Admission is free.
Part of Cipher Crit Salon
Cipher Crit Salon
The IMC Lab + Gallery, New York, NY
June 5, 2013 to June 28, 2013
The IMC Lab + Gallery and SOL’SAX present The Juneteenth Jubilee Cipher Crit Salon. The Cipher Crit Salon is a series of public discussions of video and performance art. Artists will present their time-based work followed by a short talk where the artists will contextualize their work, then the audience will be invited to intellectually digest the work through a public discussion with the artist. Featuring a weekly artist talk by Marina Gutierrez, A '81.
Private Collection
Studio DTFU, Dallas, TX
June 14, 2013 to June 29, 2013
Studio DTFU, the curatorial project of Justin Hunter Allen, A '10 and Lucy Kirkman, A '09, is thrilled to present a solo show of works by fellow alum Travis Iurato. PRIVATE COLLECTION is comprised of works on paper, combining drawing and collage, selected from DTFU's collection. From the Ancient to the Contemporary, from Folk to Conceptual Art, using scavenged materials and the artists painterly hand, PRIVATE COLLECTION follows a correspondence between Brooklyn and Dallas.
Untitled 4-16-2013 Collage on Canvas 30 x 30
The 24th National & International Juried Exhibition
Virdian Artists Gallery, 548 West 28th St/547 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001
July 2-July 20, 2013
Opening Reception Thursday, July 18, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
This exhibition was juried by Elizabeth Sussman, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Featuring work by Edith Hillinger, A '64.
The Cat Show
White Columns Gallery, Chelsea, NY
June 14, 2013 to July 27, 2013
White Columns is proud to present ‘The Cat Show’ curated by writer and artist Rhonda Lieberman, and developed in partnership with the Social Tees Animal Rescue, who will offer cats for adoption during ‘The Cats-in-Residence Program' to be held in the gallery on June 14/15 and July 19/20. Freecell is contributing a piece to this show in collaboration with Gia Wolff (Assistant Professor Adjunct). This is a fascinating exhibit as it is combined with real cats looking to be adopted roaming throughout the exhibit.
Edith Hillinger, MITTSU, 2012, collage on canvas, 33" x 33"
Edith Hillinger Solo Exhibition Fusion: A Collision of Cultures
Offramp Gallery, 1702 Lincoln Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103
June 23 – July 28, 2013
Offramp Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of collages by San Francisco area artist, Edith Hillinger, A '64 Fusion: A Collision of Cultures from June 23 - July 28, 2013. There will be an opening reception on Sunday, June 23 from 2-5pm and a closing reception on Sunday, July 28 from 2-5pm, with an artist's talk at 3pm. Fusion is Hillinger's first solo exhibition at Offramp Gallery.
Settlements: Selected Works 2002 - 2013
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
May 18, 2013 to July 30, 2013
Pioneer Works is pleased to present Settlements by Ernesto Caivano, A '99. The exhibit is a survey of selected works from 2002-2013. Ernesto Caivano’s work has been the subject of solo shows at White Cube in London, Richard Heller in Los Angeles and at MoMA PS1, where his site-specific mural In the Woods (2004) is permanently installed. Ernesto Caivano has also been included in notable group exhibitions such as No New Thing Under the Sun (2010) at the Royal Academy in London, The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now at the Museum of Modern Art (2006), Greater New York 2005 at MoMA PS1, and the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
Untitled 5-7-2013 Collage on Canvas 30 x 30
Risk
Berkely Art Center, 1275 Walnut Street, Berkeley, Ca 94709
June 27 – August 25, 2013
Opening Reception, Saturday June 29 6:00 to 8:00 p.m
This group exhibition was juried by Apsara DiQuinzio, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Berkeley Art Museum and by Kimberly Johansson director of Johansson Projects. Selected artists include Leigh Barbier, Michael Berens, Paper Buck, Natalya Burd, Nuala Creed, Arthur Comings, Diane Ding, Jessica Eastburn, Joel Frudden, Danielle Gherardi, Rebekah Goldstein, Adrienne Heloise, Dana Hemenway, Joshua Highter, Edith Hillinger, A '64, Kelly Inouye, Becky Johnson, Carter Johnston, Jennifer Kaufman, Maria Kazanskaya, Jeff Kramm, Cathy Lu, Michael Martin, Nadja Miller, Benjamin Moss, Alex Nichols, Eva Nicolait, Johanna Poethig, Amanda Quiroz, Zachary Roberts, Stephanie Robison, Blayre Stiller, Sam Vaughan, and Leah Virsik.
The Artistry of Angelo Perrone: Mixed Media Paintings
The Inn at Newtown, Newtown, CT
June 27, 2013 to August, 2013
Angelo Perrone, A '63 has been painting in mixed media for the last 50 years. His recent studies called "Impressions of Nature" celebrate his love of natural beauty. Angelo is especially involved with the changes of seasons in our New England area. Elements seen in his paintings are leaves, grass, and natural elements instead of the usual brush in the Plein Aire manner. The public is invited to the opening reception at the Absolut Gallery on Thursday, June 27 between 6 and 8 pm. The opening party will feature, live entertainment, free hors d'oeurvres and themed cocktails served courtesy of Executive Chef Carlos Marquez and Absolut Vodka.
‘Archaeology of the Digital’ Exhibition, Courtesy of Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA)
‘Archaeology of the Digital’ Exhibition
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Canada
May 7, 2013 to October 13, 2013
The ‘Archaeology of the Digital’ exhibition will feature the work of Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Shoei Yoh and Chuck Hoberman, A '79 while examining the foundations of digital architecture at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. Curated by architect Greg Lynn, the exhibition along with the related publication are conceived as object-based investigations of four pivotal projects by the featured architects that established distinct directions in architecture’s use of digital tools. The event delves into the genesis and establishment of digital tools for design conceptualization, visualization and production.
Public Hearing at MoMA PS 1
Expo 1: New York
MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, NY
May 12, 2013 to September 2, 2013
James N. Kienitz Wilkins's, A '07 film, "Public Hearing" US premiere in "EXPO 1: New York". The Cinema presents a program of moving images culled from a range of genres and disciplines, including cinematic works, video games, and user-generated online content, that relate to EXPO 1: New York’s ecological and sociopolitical themes.
[Un]Seen
Fountain Gallery, NYC
May 23, 2013 to July 10, 2013
A group exhibtion featuring: text-based pieces by Simon Evans, Nelson Fernando Figallo, AR '03, and Matthew Higgs; representational work by Pedro Pascoinho, Leo Fitzpatrick, and Robin Taylor; a sound installation by Kristin Oppenheim; sculpture by Dove Bradshaw; and photographs by Berenice Abbott, Iaeden Hovorka, and Francesca Woodman, Davida Adedjouma, Maya Deren, Ann Fischman, John Hadley, Bruno Jacob, Greg Johnson, Ed Loftus, Katie Paterson, Joseph Russo, and Deborah Standard.
Work by Kyle Hamilton, A '94
Memories of Warsaw: Paintings and Drawings Kyle Hamilton
The Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
June 15 – July 28, 2013
Opening Reception ~ Saturday, June 22, 2013 (7:00 - 9:00 p.m.)
Kyle Hamilton, A '94 will have a one-woman show of paintings and drawings titled Memories of Warsaw in the Malloy Gallery of the Trenton City Museum. The expressionist urban landscape depicted is dark, vertiginous, post-apocalyptic – sometimes inhabited by the figure of a young girl as witness.
Extra Terrestrial by Amelia Bauer (A'01)
Spontaneous Interventions, photo by Gordon Douglas
Spontaneous Interventions
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Friday, May 24 - Sunday, September 1, 2013
Opening May 24, Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good features 84 urban interventions initiated by architects, designers, planners, artists and everyday citizens that bring positive change to neighborhoods and cities in addition to a pop-up installation in Millennium Park. Exhibit designed by Freecell for the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (August 2012). Cooper alumnus, John Hartmann, AR '00 is Principal of Freecell.
Extra Terrestrial
Ongoing
Phillips de Pury & Company is carrying an edition of prints from the Extra Terrestrial series by Amelia Bauer (A'01).
Installation view of Serving the Mother Goddess by James Hicks (AR'94)
Serving the Mother Goddess
Ongoing
James Hicks (AR'94) was the design consultant for this exhibit focused on the exuberance, beauty and joy of the Mother Goddess religion.
Singular Visions
Ongoing
Presenting highlights from the museum's holdings, each with its own gallery space, Singular Visions includes art by Eva Hesse (A'57, Dec.), George Segal (A'44, Dec.) and Tom Wesselmann (A'59, Dec.).