Exhibitions

In 1989 Joachim Schmid coined the motto "No new photographs until the old ones have been used up!" This exhibition marks the first retrospective of Schmid's work, and indeed, in twenty-five years he has rarely shown images that he made himself. Instead, Schmid assembles related groups of found photos to reveal... See more 

For Martin Kersels, whose six-foot-seven-inch frame towers over most, size really does matter. His sculptures, photographs, and performances, though frequently funny and light-hearted at first reading, often reveal the awkwardness and embarrassment of quite literally not fitting in. Kersels’s most recent works take... See more 

If a robot could dream, fall in love, feel pain, and even make art, must we fear it as in Hollywood depictions or might we celebrate its dreams instead? In a future where this is possible, let us consider what a sentient elevator might think about, dream about, or sing about. What would the Elevator’s Music be?... See more 

As part of its mission, the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery provides Skidmore College students and faculty with first-hand experiences of original works of art and objects of material culture. The art works and artifacts on view here, drawn from the collections of the Tang and the Mount Holyoke... See more 

Twice Drawn returns in a new iteration, revisiting last spring’s eccentric survey of modern and contemporary drawing to explore how context affects our understanding of art. Drawings by more than one hundred artists in a range of styles, including many works seen in the first installation, hang thematically in a... See more 

Nina Katchadourian makes engaging and irreverent artworks that combine investigative practices with a more elusive, poetic logic. Incorporating sculpture, photography, video, and sound, her multilayered projects are propelled by deliberate attempts to observe, scrutinize, order, and disorder her surroundings. All... See more 

In our dreams, the familiar becomes strange and the bizarre is made believable. Fragments of recognizable settings, people, and events are woven into seamless narratives that are mysterious or unexpected, and yet somehow inevitable. These images can blur the distinctions between illusion and reality, offering a... See more 

Two drawings by over forty artists comprise this eccentric survey of the last half-century of modern and contemporary drawing. Artists included range from mid-century stalwarts like Philip Guston, Roy Lichtenstein, Lee Bontecou, and Ellsworth Kelly, to established draftsmen such as Robert Gober, Nancy Grossman, Brice... See more 

Billboard is a digital analysis of every number one single from the Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart from its inception in 1958 through the year 2000. Using a technique he developed called time-lapse phonography, R. Luke DuBois creates a spectral average of each song that generates a sustained chord of an average... See more 

And Therefore I Am takes its title from philosopher René Descartes's famous dictum, cogito, ergo sum - "I think, therefore I am." It presents contemporary art about the experience of human consciousness, thought, perception, and the working of the mind and brain. The exhibition features Janet Cardiff and George... See more