2010 Exhibitions

Elevator Music 17
Peter Edwards: Specter

October 9, 2010 - February 27, 2011

Elevator Music 17 features a new sound and light based sculpture by sound artist and instrument builder Peter Edwards. See More

Filed Under: Elevator Music

The Jewel Thief

September 18, 2010 - February 27, 2011

The Jewel Thief will combine works by over fifty contemporary artists with eccentric arrangements to explore new ways to think about and experience abstract art. See More

Filed Under: Group Exhibitions

Eye Rhymes

September 7, 2010 - January 2, 2011

Eye Rhymes will introduce viewers to the intersections of text and image while serving as a classroom space for the fall 2010 Scribner Seminar, Ways of Seeing: Image, Text, Illumination. See More

Filed Under: Faculty Curated, Student Curated

Opener 21
Suzanne Bocanegra: I Write the Songs

July 17, 2010 - January 2, 2011

This exhibition will feature a range of work, including wall works, sound and video installations, and a new work that combines live dance and recorded sound See More

Filed Under: Opener Series, Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions

Opener 20
Paula Hayes: Understory

July 17, 2010 - April 17, 2011

Paula Hayes creates living art that intimately connects people with the natural environment. See More

Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions

For You

June 12 - August 22, 2010

A unique open call exhibition of artwork created by artists who have passed away, but whose work and memory continue to impact individuals in the greater Capital Region. See More

Filed Under: Group Exhibitions

Skidmore Senior Art Majors Exhibition

May 14 - May 22, 2010

Forty-seven senior studio art majors will be displaying their work as a capstone to their studies at Skidmore College. See More

Filed Under: Group Exhibitions

Elevator Music 16
Head Rhythm 1 and Plaything 2, 1999

May 14 - September 19, 2010

Composer and sound installation artist, Maryanne Amacher makes works that explore the physical phenomena of sound and human auditory perception. See More

Filed Under: Elevator Music

Text Messages

May 1 - May 23, 2010

Featuring pieces from the Tang’s collection and on extended loan, this show presents a wide range of contemporary works in which the word is the image. See More

Filed Under: Group Exhibitions, Student Curated

Opener 19
Los Carpinteros

April 10 - August 7, 2010

Havana-based collective Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters) create surrealist-inspired sculptures, large-scale installations, and drawings. See More

Filed Under: Opener Series

Fred Tomaselli

February 6 - June 13, 2010

Ever the idiosyncratic collector, artist Fred Tomaselli amasses actual pills and plants along with a range of images—among them flowers, birds, and anatomical illustrations—carefully cut from books and magazines. See More

Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions

Power Play

February 6 - April 26, 2010

Drawing from the Tang’s permanent collection, Power Play explores ways in which play and humor have functioned since the eighteenth century to expose and disarm structures of power. See More

Filed Under: Group Exhibitions

African Pots and Gender

November 14, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Thirteen African pots from the Tang's permanent collection, organized according to three gender-specific themes. Curated by Prof Lisa Aronson's Art History class Topics in Gender and Visual Culture: Africa. See More

Filed Under: Faculty Curated, Student Curated

Opener 18
Arlene Shechet: Blow By Blow

September 26, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Shechet's new works shift away from her earlier explorations of iconographic Buddhist imagery toward more abstract forms. See More

Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions

Opener 17
Nicole Eisenman: The Way We Weren't

September 26, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Simultaneously playful, biting, and raunchy, Eisenman challenges cultural and social norms associated with gender and sexuality, popular culture, and the current art scene in a new series of paintings. See More

Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions

Type A: Barrier

September 26, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Type A, the collaborative team of Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin, takes inspiration from Jersey barriers in an exploration of the ways structures are forcing people to forfeit their physical freedom in the cause of public safety. See More

Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions

Lives of The Hudson

July 18, 2009 - March 14, 2010

Lives of the Hudson explores the long history of one of America’s greatest rivers, surveying the natural river, the imagined river, the human river, and the working river. See More

Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated

Elevator Music 15: A Sound Map of the Hudson

July 18, 2009 - March 14, 2010

An aural journey spanning from the source of the Hudson River. See More

Filed Under: Elevator Music

Amazement Park: Stan, Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek

June 6, 2009 - April 25, 2010

Work by the influential filmmaker/artist, his daughter and son, in a year-long, changing exhibition. See More

Filed Under: Group Exhibitions