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"JACKSON POLLOCK: A CENTENNIAL RETROSPECTIVE," ON VIEW IN NAGOYA, JAPAN
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To commemorate the 2012 centenary of Pollock's birth, the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in Nagoya, Japan, is presenting an exhibition of more than 60 of his works, including all those in Japanese collections and loans from around the world. Organized by Aichi curator Tetsuya Oshima, the exhibition will be on view in Nagoya through January 22, after which it will travel to the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo from February 6 through May 10, 2012.
Among the outstanding overseas loans are Birth, 1941, from the Tate Gallery, London; Totem Lesson 2, 1945, from the National Gallery of Australia; Number 7, 1950, from the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Number 11, 1951, from the Daros Collection, Switzerland; and Number 7, 1952, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The show's highlight is Mural on Indian Red Ground, a 1950 masterpiece from the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, which has not been seen outside Iran since the revolution.
The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center is represented in the show by one painting, two prints, and artifacts from the house and studio, as well as a full-scale replica of the studio that features a photographic reproduction of the paint-spattered floor.
Our painting, Untitled (Composition with Red Arc and Horses), is an early work that illustrates Pollock's debts to Picasso, Orozco and Native American Art. It hangs in the first gallery, where the human skull from Pollock's studio is also on view. In the next gallery, shards of colored glass from the studio are displayed next to his only mosaic, made in the late 1930s for the WPA, in which the glass was used. At the exhibition's conclusion, paints, brushes and other studio materials, and the broken anchor that hangs in the house, are among the featured exhibits. In the lobby, a video takes visitors on a tour of the Springs property.
The MFA students of the Art Department announce open studios on November 2-3. The art studios at Nassau Hall at the South Campus of the Stony Brook campus will be open for viewing both Wednesday and Thursday from 9am-9pm. The opening reception will be on Thursday November 3rd, from 6:00-11:00 PM. Refreshments, funded by the Graduate Student Organization, will be served and live music performed by students from the Music Department.
Lisa Frye Ashe Wins The 2011 Herskovic Essay Prize
The Pollock-Krasner Study Center's second annual Herskovic Essay Prize for innovative scholarship by a graduate student on a topic related to Abstract Expressionism has been awarded to Lisa Frye Ashe, a student in the art history doctoral program at the University of Virginia.
The award comprises a $1,000 cash prize and publication of the essay in a forthcoming issue of Art Criticism, a journal of the Stony Brook University Department of Art, Art History and Art Criticism. It is supported by a generous gift from Drs. Thomas and Marika Herskovic, whose New York School Press publishes lavishly illustrated books on post-World War II American art.
Ms. Ashe's essay, "On Barnett Newman's The Wild," examines one of the painter's iconic works in terms of its physical properties, its significance in Newman's development, and how viewers respond to it, with special emphasis on "the conventions of displaying and viewing." She places The Wild in the context of what she describes as the "dialogue among painters that was taking place within, and in relation to, the limits of the small mid-century commercial gallery," especially the Betty Parsons Gallery, where both Newman and Pollock exhibited. The selection committee commented that "she mastered the literature but had something new to say," and praised her "original thinking, organization, and writing."
Lisa Frye Ashe received her Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Tennessee and her Master's degree in Art History from the University of Virginia, where she was a recipient of the 2005 Lindner Center for Art History's Master's Thesis Prize. She has been a teaching assistant and instructor at the university since 2006, and participated in the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center's summer lecture series in 2007. Her essay is based on research for her dissertation, "Scale, Size, and the Spaces of American Painting, 1948-1968." (08/11/11)
Michael Leja to speak on Pollock's Politics. In his introduction to the recently published book, American Letters 1927-1947: Jackson Pollock & Family, art historian Michael Leja points out that this collection of correspondence among members of the Pollock clan sheds new light on the life story of Jackson Pollock, the most renowned of LeRoy and Stella Pollock's five sons. Sunday, August 21 at 5PM. The Fireplace Project, 851 Springs-Fireplace Rd., East Hampton. Admission $5/Pollock-Krasner House members free. (08/11/11)
"Lee Krasner in East Hampton" will be this year's Annual Pollock-Krasner Lecture. The speaker is Gail Levin, Baruch College/CUNY Graduate Center, author of Lee Krasner: A Biography. Sunday July 17, 11 AM, The John Drew Theater of Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton. Details. (07/11/11)
Prof. Michele Bogart will lecture July 19 at the World Monuments Fund on "Civic Virtue and the Politics of Display, or How Anthony Weiner Shed Light on a Public Art Cause: Notes from One Preservation Archive." Details. (07/10/11)
SBU Undergraduate Nicole Saenz is part of the "Summer Highlights" exhibition at New Century Artists, 530 West 25th St (bet. 10th & 11th Aves), Suite 406. Show runs July 6 - July 30, Tues-Sat, 11-6. Opening reception 7/9 3-6PM. (06/24/11)
Prof. Nobi Nagasawa has been "selected to work with the Pittsburgh-based landscape architecture firm LaQuatra Bonci Associates to develop a pedestrian connection between Point Park University's campus Downtown and the newly constructed linear park along the Mon Wharf Landing." This from a "Newsmaker" piece in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 10, 2011. (06/12/11)
The IFC Center is screening !Women Art Revolution from June 2 to June 9. Schedule. Among the filmmakers and special in-person guests will be Prof. Howardena Pindell at 2:10 PM on Thurs 6/2, Sat 6/4 and Sun 6/5.
323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street, NYC. (06/02/11)
Stony Brook MFA Ying-He Liu's portrait of Bishop Catherine Roskam was unveiled at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York on Saturday, May 14, as part of the celebration of the 15th Anniversary of Biskop Roskam's Consecration. (05/21/11)
MFA student Luis F. Ramírez Cellis has been awarded a $15,000 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Graduating MFA Painters and Sculptors. The Joan Mitchell Foundation selects fifteen recipients each year in a nation-wide competition: nominated images are viewed for grant consideration through an anonymous process by a jury panel. (05/13/11)
Twist Art Gallery in Nashville is running a show In Twist Etc~ of work by Jason Paradis, adjunct instructor, from 5/7 to 5/28/11. 73 Arcade, Nashville, TN. Opening 5/7, 6-9 PM, part of the First Saturday Gallery Crawl. (05/05/11)
Feast, a show of new paintings by 2002 MFA Melanie Baker, will run at
Cristin Tierney from 5/6 to 6/18/11. Tuesday through Saturday, 10AM-6PM,
546 West 29th St., NYC. Opening reception Friday 5/6, 6-8 PM. (05/03/11)
Celebrating a Few Fertile Years in the Hamptons by Karen Lipson (New York Times, 5/1/11) covers a new show at the Pollock-Krasner House, "Conrad Marca-Relli: The Springs Years, 1953-1956." That's when Marca-Relli was next-door neighbor and friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, and when he perfected the collage technique that made him famous. Lipson quotes our colleague Helen Harrison, the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center: Marca-Relli's innovation was "the grandeur and import he gave to collages." The show runs from May 5 to July 30. (05/01/11) Extensive coverage ("Conrad Marca-Relli, The Artist Next Door," by Annette Hinkle) posted May 4 in the Sag Harbor Express. (05/06/11)
Stony Brook 2009 MFA Verónica Peña's show In My Bedroom, curated by Kristine Granger (MFA 2010) is running at the Oasis Gallery, Marquette MI from 4/2 to 4/30/11. (04/29/11)
MFA Fulbright student Pancho Westendarp presents a video response to Daniel Hernandez' reading from his new book Down & Delirious in Mexico City, sponsored by the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center in SSB N320, 2-4PM on 4/12. (04/12/11)
Public art and Prof. Michele Bogart are back in the news after Maine Gov. Paul LePage ordered the dismantling of a large mural in the state's Department of Labor lobby. In an AP bulletin, picked up by the Washington Post, she is quoted as saying: "If a politician comes along and says, 'I don't like it,' even though he has no expertise in art, he is abusing his power. People don't like politicians taking on the role of art critic." (04/09/11)
Prof. Anita Moskowitz is scheduled to participate in the Scholar's Day Workshop, "where a small group of distinguished curators, art historians, and guests is invited to spend a day in the galleries," on 5/9 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The event celebrates the publication of a new catalogue, Italian Medieval Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters. (04/08/11)
aRt and CHEmisTry exHIBit, the First Annual Site Specific Installation of Student Art for Chemistry, will be inaugurated with a reception on 4/13 from 3-4PM in the Atrium Gallery of the Chemistry Building. The installation features work from Prof. Nobi Nagasawa's Advanced Sculpture class, Fall 2010. (04/08/11)
New work by Jason Paradis, adjunct instructor, is half of the visual dynamic, opening 4/2 at the Saratoga Arts Center, 320 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY and running through 5/28. (03/29/11)
The 2011 SBU Philosophy and the Arts Conference (the fourth annual) will be held 4/1 and 4/2 at Stony Brook Manhattan, with Welcome and Opening Remarks from Prof. Emeritus Donald Kuspit and Closing Remarks from Prof. Zabet Patterson. MFA student Jamie Macauley and PhD student Charles Eppley will participate as Respondents in two of the sessions. (03/28/11)
Live Cinema lecture/performance by Sandra Gibson and Luis Recorder, Monday 3/28 at 2PM, Staller 3220. link to information on their visit to Carnegie-Mellon. (03/27/11)
Wednesday, March 23. The Daily News is running Prof Michele Bogart's Op-Ed "Civic Virtue, Queens monument, must be saved: Charges of sexism are an insult to our history" as the cover story on their Opinions webpage. (03/23/11) Addendum: "Art historian joins fight for statue" was the headline in the Queens Chronicle for April 21, 2011. Professor Bogart: "Women's groups looked at the work in a rather literal way and didn't take account of the fact that it was an allegorical personification of virtue triumphing over vice." (04/26/11)
Rival Sisters: Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism, a conference organized by Prof. James Rubin, runs Friday and Saturday 3/25-26 at Stony Brook Manhattan (387 Park Avenue South at 27th St.) Program. (03/22/11)
Stony Brook PhD Carla Macchiavello (2011) has curated Unlikely Savages, opening at AC Institute on 3/24 and running through 4/30/11. 547 West 27, 6th floor, Gallery 610. Opening reception 3/24, 6-8 PM. (03/22/11)
PhD Student Jennie Goldstein contributed twelve short essays to the catalogue for the exhibtion Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection at the Whitney, 2/10-5/1. Ms. Goldstein also will present "Collaboration, Movement, Projection: The Interdisciplinary Structure of Lucinda Child's Dance, 1979" at the Society of Dance History Scholars conference Dance Dramaturgy: Catalyst, Perspective and Memory, 6/23-6/26 in Toronto. (03/19/11)
The Daily News interviewed Prof. Michele Bogart for their March 8 article on the fate of Frederick MacMonnies' 1909 statue "The Triumph of Civic Virtue." (03/08/11) Prof. Bogart was also quoted in a report on Public Sculpture in New York City, broadcast by WNYC on March 19. (03/19/11)
Prof. Howardena Pindell was honored March 3 at the Museum of Modern Art, on the occasion of the premiere of Lynn Herschman Leeson's film: !Women Art Revolution: A Secret History. Prof. Pindell appears in the film. (03/08/11)
PhD student Jaleen Grove has been awarded the 2011 Rockwell Center Dissertation Fellowship by the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies. (03/03/11)
The new Simons Center for Geometry and Physics features a large-scale lobby installation, Earth, Air, Fire, Water by Prof. Toby Buonagurio. The Center's Art spaces (Exhibition Area, Artist's Studio) will be inaugurated in September. (02/28/11)
Takafumi Ide, Stony Brook 2008 MFA, and currently teaching in the department, has a solo show opening 2/28 (through 5/5) at The Gallery at Onondaga Community College. (Ann Felton Multicultural Center, 4585 West Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse, NY 13215-4585; Phone: 315.498.2622. Mon & Fri, 9-4.) More information. (02/28/11)
Valerie Hellstein, Stony Brook 2010 PhD, will appear on a Young Scholar's Panel: New Perspectives on Abstract Expressionism, at MoMA on Friday 2/25, 1-5PM. The panel is in conjunction with the show "Abstract Expressionist New York" which runs until 4/25. She will present a paper on "Abstract Expressionism's Countercultures: The Club, the Cold War, and the New Sensibility." Tickets for the panel here. (02/16/11)
Chris Vivas, Studio Art BA, Stony Brook, ceramicist, is an artist in residence (Open Studios) at the Museum of Arts and Design, 3 Columbus Circle, NYC, until the end of February. He will be working the next few Wednesdays from 9 to 6 (with a lunch break from 1:30-2:30). Look for an image of his work in 500 Raku, Lark Books, due out 3/1. (02/10/11)
The MFA Thesis Exhibition 2011 runs from 2/8 through 3/2 in the University Art Gallery, Staller Center. It features work by MFA degree candidates Hrönn Axelsdóttir, Nina Melissa Pascal, Luis F. Ramírez Celis, David Weiner, and Moira Williams. Hours: Tues-Fri 2-4, Sat 7-9, and in conjunction with Staller Center performances on 2/10, 2/12, 2/18, 2/27 and 3/2.
Reception: Sat 2/12, 7-9PM. (02/07/11) Snapshots from opening.
CAA MFA EXHIBITION including artists from the SBU MFA Program: Hrönn Axelsdóttir, Kathryn Cellerini, Luis F. Ramírez Celis, Dan Hess,
Auj Khan, Jamie Macauley, Alisha McCurdy, Jose Antonio Ojeda,
Nicole Robilotta, Kristina Stoyanova, Ezra Thompson, David Irving Weiner, Francisco Westendarp, Moira Williams.
    Catalog available at Blurb Publishing.
    Exhibition dates: 2/9-4/9/11
    Reception: Friday, 2/11, 6-9 pm
    Location: Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, 450 W 41 (bet. 9th & 10th) NYC
    (02/07/11)
Stephanie Dinkins, Nobi Nagasawa, Gary Schneider are part of
"Put Up or Shut Up," a show of work by NY-area MFA faculty members organized by Catherine Howe at the New York Academy of Art.
    Exhibition dates: 2/10-3/6 (12-7 daily, closed 2/25)
    Reception: Wednesday, 2/9, 6-9 pm
    Location: Wilkinson Gallery, NYAA, 111 Franklin St, NYC (02/07/11)
Professor Anita Moskowitz will co-chair (with Lynn Catterson) a session "Carved/Recarved: The Surface of Sculpture" on 2/11 at the CAA conference in NYC (schedule). (02/06/11)
Raymond Prucher (Stony Brook MFA, on the art faculty of American University in Dubai) will be bringing a group of his students to tour galleries and museums in NYC this spring. (02/05/11)
Max Liboiron (Stony Brook MFA) will give an Artist Talk on 2/11 at the CAA, in the Radical Art Caucus session on Environmental Sustainability in Art History, Theory, and Practice (schedule). Her title: "Trash Art and Creative Economies." Also:
   Residency 2/15-3/26 at Wave Hill in NYC; Open Studio 2/19, 2/26, 3/6, 3/20, 3/22, 1-4PM.
   Workshop on A citizen's guide to plastic pollution at the Trade School (32 Prince St, NY) on 3/30, 6-6:30 PM.
   Solo show at Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History (Nelson, BC, until 4/20); group show at the Refugee Reading Room (Philadelphia, until 2/25). (02/05/11)
MA student Bill Donovan will have an article titled "Saul Chernik" in the upcoming edition ("Book 5") of Beautiful/Decay. Subscriptions here. (02/05/11)
PhD student Travis English will present "I stood in front of the landscape like a cow:" Melancholy, Noncontemporaneity, and Weakly Utopian Resistance in Otto Dix's Interwar Landscapes, at New York University's Comparative Literature Department's Graduate conference Interwar/International: Reading the 1920s and 30s, to be held on March 4 and 5. (02/04/11)
MFA student Kathryn Cellerini will present her work at the
1st International Mokuhanga Conference, Kyoto & Awaji, June 7-11, 2011.
(See Artists' Presentations, page 9). (02/01/11)
Stony Brook PhD Brian Winkenweder (2004) and his co-editor, Dr. David Craven (Distinguished Professor of Art History, University of New Mexico) are hosting a book presentation and signing on Friday, February 11th at the Allan Stone Gallery, 113 East 90th St., NYC, 6:30-8:30 PM (details). The book is their recently published Dialectical Conversions: Donald Kuspit's Art Criticism (Liverpool University Press, 2011).
This reception follows a panel session Donald is chairing at the CAA Conference. [Mel Pekarsky has been invited to offer a few anecdotes about his years serving in the Art Department as Donald's colleague]. (01/26/11)