*FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE                                                                   February 
7, 2011 *

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*/ New Exhibition:From Huguenot to Microwave 
/*

*/ Continuing Exhibitions:Thoughts of Home 
Binary Visions 
Illustrious 
Mr. X, Vol. 2 /*//


  *The Dorsky opens Marco Maggi exhibition with preview reception on
  February 11th***

*NEW PALTZ -- *The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (The Dorsky) opens an 
exhibition of work by artist Marco Maggi on Friday, Feb. 11 with a 
curator's gallery talk from 4 -- 5 p.m. and a preview reception on from 
5 -- 7 p.m. The exhibition/From Huguenot to Microwave: New and Recent 
Works by Marco Maggi/, curated by Dorsky Museum curator Brian Wallace, 
will run from Feb. 12 -- April 15.

This event is the first in a series of events and exhibitions 
celebrating the museum's tenth anniversary year. Formerly known as the 
College Art Gallery, The Dorsky first opened to the public in April 2001 
and was officially dedicated on Oct. 20, 2001.

The Tenth Anniversary Year exhibition program will highlight The 
Dorsky's focus on the art and artists of the Hudson Valley, a unique 
region that has served as a source of inspiration and nourished artistic 
creation and innovation since the time of the Hudson River School painters.

*About Marco Maggi*

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.

Maggi's use of materials, techniques, and references evokes, but never 
makes explicit, the connections between culture, power, and the image 
that are the subject of much recent contemporary art. Surveillance 
mirrors are decorated --- and their ostensible users' gazes disrupted 
--- by skeins of tiny lines. Eyeglass lenses are augmented with --- and 
compromised, functionally, by --- similar webs of spidery cuts. A long 
series of stacks of paper cut with elaborate care divides one half of 
the gallery from the other while it mimics the operation of a printing 
press and, at one metaphorical remove, the production of art itself --- 
and at another remove, that of artists themselves. Time-lapse video 
collapses the life-cycle of an apple --- a humble New Paltz specimen 
(and visual simile for the town) --- into a cosmically concise epigraph 
for life itself.

The artist's works reveal the attention to detail, focus on process, and 
openness to chance developments and accidental outcomes that are so 
common (and so necessary) to printmaking, Maggi's primary focus as a 
student and a continued thread in his work to date. Visual and physical 
swapping, the employment of support materials as central components, the 
leakage of imagery onto peripheral sections, an intensity of production 
that is too well-organized to be obsessive but too extensive to be 
immediately believable: these are the hallmarks of an artist who has 
both submitted to and mastered the rich technical and metaphorical 
landscape of the print medium.

Maggi has made several new works for the exhibition and lent other, 
recent, works; a private collector from the Boston area and the artist's 
New York gallery have lent the remaining works.^

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1957, Maggi lives and works in New 
Paltz, N.Y., and Montevideo. His work has been exhibited extensively 
throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Maggi earned an 
MFA at SUNY New Paltz in 1998.

Maggi represented Uruguay at the 25^th Bienal de São Paulo; he has been 
the subject of solo exhibitions at Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York; 
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 
Kansas City; Centro Cultural Reina Sofia, Montevideo, Uruguay; Centro 
Colombo Americano, Bogota, Columbia; and Syracuse University's Lubin 
House Gallery, New York. His work is in numerous private collections as 
well as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New 
York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of 
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture 
Garden, Washington, D.C.; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, São Paolo; and 
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City.

*Continuing Exhibitions*

The opening event on Feb. 11^th will also celebrate the re-opening of 
three exhibitions continuing from 2010:

*/Thoughts of Home: //Photographs from the Center for Photography at 
Woodstock Permanent Collection/*
Curated by Wayne Lempka
*Through March 18*
//
*/Binary Visions: 19th-century Woven Coverlets from the Collection of 
Historic Huguenot Street/*

Curated by Leslie LeFevre-Stratton and Brian Wallace

*Through March 18*


/*The Illustrious Mr. X: Museum Collection as Character Study, Volume 
II*/**
Curated by Greg Slick and Karlos Carcamo*
Through July 17*

For more information about The Dorsky Museum and its programs, visit 
www.newpaltz.edu/museum , or call (845) 
257-3844.

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