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Art News:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 25, 2011
Contact:
Suzanne Grady,
Sara Pasti
Interim
Director of Communication & Marketing
Director, Dorsky Museum
(845) 257-3245
(845) 257-3846
Note to editors: Photos related to this press
release are available for download from the SUNY New Paltz
web site via the following links:
New
Exhibitions: The Upstate New York Olympics Thick and Thin
Continuing
Exhibitions: Illustrious
Mr. X, Vol. 2 From
Huguenot to Microwave
The Dorsky opens two new
exhibitions on April 8
NEW PALTZ – On Friday, April 8, the Samuel Dorsky Museum
of Art will hold an opening reception for two new exhibitions: The Upstate New
York Olympics: Tim Davis and Thick
and Thin: Ken Landauer and Julianne Swartz, from 5 to 7 pm. The
museum’s curator, Brian Wallace, organized both exhibitions.
ABOUT
THE EXHIBITIONS
The Upstate New York Olympics: Tim Davis
Combining his
ongoing interests in performance, photography, sculpture, and
poetry, Tim Davis has developed a series of video and
installation works and objects entitled The Upstate
New York Olympics. By turns uncanny, bold, ridiculous,
illegal, and downright dangerous, Davis’ “events” document, and
powerfully comment on, the artist’s concerns with the
fundamentals of performance art, personal expression,
regionalism, and the risks and rewards of the creative life. Bronze trophies and other commemorative
objects, project documentation, and a small artist-designed
publication accompany a suite of 12 to15 videos. The
Upstate New York Olympics opens on March 30 and runs
through July 17.
On
Thursday, April 28 at 7 pm in SUNY New Paltz
Lecture Center Room 100, Tim Davis will present a lecture and
slide show of his work.
Thick and Thin: Ken Landauer and Julianne Swartz
Ken Landauer
and Julianne Swartz, independent artists and a married couple,
have produced distinct bodies of work that complement one
another in process, form, and effect but have never before
exhibited or made work together. Landauer’s drawings and objects play
with scale and humor to provoke realizations about our
expectations about representation and abstraction. Swartz’s
sculptures, installations, and architectural interventions shift
our perceptions of space, form, and light. Together
and separately, their works address the ways we make sense of
the world. This exhibition includes a selection of recent and
new works. Thick and Thin runs through October 23.
On Sunday,
May 1 from 2-3 pm in The Dorsky Museum, curator Brian
Wallace will host a curator’s gallery talk on this exhibition.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Malawi-born Tim
Davis, a graduate of Bard College and Yale University – and a
recipient of the
Rome Prize from
the American Academy in 2007 – is an artist and poet whose
exhibition/publication
projects
include Permanent Collection and My
Life In Politics. Davis teaches at Bard College and is
represented by Greenberg Van Doren Gallery; his work is in the
collection of many institutions, including the Dorsky Museum,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirschorn Museum.
Ken Landauer
(Colgate University; Rhode Island School of Design) lives in
Stone Ridge, NY, and has exhibited installations, sculptures,
and other works at The Fields/Art Omi, at Socrates Sculpture
Park, with the Public Art Fund, and at AH Gallery. Julianne
Swartz has created solo projects for BBC 3, the Indianapolis
Museum of Art, and Josée Bienvenu Gallery; her work was included
in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and in other group exhibitions at
Tate, the New Museum for Contemporary Art, and the Aldrich
Museum.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM
The Samuel
Dorsky Museum of Art, located at SUNY New Paltz, is fast gaining
wide recognition as the premier public showplace for exhibition,
education, and cultural scholarship about the Hudson Valley
region’s art and artists from yesterday and today. With more
than 9,000 square feet of exhibition space distributed over six
galleries, the Dorsky Museum is one of the largest museums
within the SUNY system.
These
exhibitions are among a series of exhibitions and events
celebrating the museum’s tenth anniversary year. The Dorsky was
officially dedicated on Oct. 20, 2001. Since then it has
presented over one hundred exhibitions, including commissions,
collection-based projects, and in-depth studies of artists
including Robert Morris, Alice Neel, Judy Pfaff, and Carolee
Schneemann. Tenth Anniversary Year exhibitions 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.
For more information about The Dorsky Museum and its
programs, visit http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum, or call (845)
257-3844.
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Located in the
heart of a dynamic college town, ninety minutes from
metropolitan New York City, the State
University of New York at New Paltz is a highly
selective college of about 8,000 undergraduate and graduate
students.
One
of the most well-regarded public colleges in the nation, New
Paltz delivers an extraordinary number of majors in Business, Liberal Arts
& Sciences, Engineering, Fine &
Performing Arts and Education.
New
Paltz embraces its culture as a community where talented and
independent minded people from around the world create close
personal links with real scholars and artists who love to
teach.
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