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Topping

Thomas Hunter Project Space
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
August 4 – 31
Opening Reception: August 4, 6-8pm

Sarah Mihara Creagen and Jason Rondinelli are proud to present Topping, an exhibition that draws upon the lifecycle of plants as a means to explore queer sexuality. The term topping in queer culture is most commonly associated with dominant sexual roles, but in the realm of horticulture topping is as an aggressive form of pruning. The drawings and sculptures in this exhibition inhabit a precarious juncture, where BDSM and sexual health practices are presented through a humorous botanical lens.

Sarah Mihara Creagen has created narrative drawings that take inspiration from personal experiences, botanical illustrations, and gardening manuals. Sarah is interested in methods of close looking found in botanical sciences and how it relates to sexual health exams. She uses specific horticultural terms as a jumping off point for narratives that ricochet between sex, humor, and anxiety.

Jason Rondinelli’s sculptures operate in the lineage of homoeroticism’s relation to floral imagery and take a particular look at the messier side of it. Here he presents abstract forms whose concave surfaces are inspired by the act of grinding flowers with a mortar and pestle. The heads of roses, and other foliage are macerated into the absorbent wooden surfaces staining the exterior over time. This action produces a plethora of associations related to sex, power, or marking the body with perfume and love potions. The bone-like sculptures accumulate a history of aggressive floral offerings that expose the vulnerability of the form.

What is Here is Open: Selections from the Treasures in the Trash Collection

Featured on Gothamist

Hunter East Harlem Gallery
2180 3rd Avenue at 119th Street
New York, NY

Through September 14

Participating Artists: Tomie Arai, Dominique Duroseau, Maria Hupfield, Coronado Print Collective (Pepe Coronado, Leslie Jiménez and Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez), Shellyne Rodríguez.

For over 30 years, Nelson Molina worked for the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) as a sanitation worker. His regular pick up routes were in Manhattan 11, a district bordered by 96th Street to 106th Street between First and Fifth Avenues. While he worked, he found many objects; some that needed repair and others that were fully intact.

As hundreds and hundreds of objects amassed, Molina created the Treasures in the Trash Collection inside DSNY’s garage. The result of Molina’s labor of love is a collection of objects that range from carefully posed, century-old framed family portraits to needle point; from lost cassettes to castaway Buddha statues; from colorful Pez dispensers to clocks and 8mm films. Each object has become a rescued moment, recovered by Molina’s sense for the importance of place, sustainability, and community.

What is Here is Open: Selections from the Treasures in the Trash Collection is an exhibition that places works by seven New York City-based contemporary artists alongside a selection of Molina’s found objects. Molina, along with curator Alicia Grullón, will choose objects from the Treasures in the Trash Collection to accompany the contemporary artists’ works, creating unique, site-specific installations at the Hunter East Harlem Gallery. These ephemeral installations blur the lines between art, memory, and archive, and take on both an anthropological and artistic resolve that rests in community’s vision of itself. The resulting project emphasizes the artistic and curatorial processes of those who make, those who collect, and those who arrange, engaging the similarities among these actions.

Guadalupe Maravilla, MFASO Lecture

Hunter MFA Studios
205 Hudson Street, 2nd Floor Flex Space
New York, NY
September 11, 7-9pm

Tschabalala Self , MFASO Lecture

Hunter MFA Studios
205 Hudson Street, 2nd Floor Flex Space
New York, NY
November 13, 7-9pm

Tschabalala Self (b. 1990) is a painter from Harlem, NY. She received her BA from Bard College in 2012 and her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2015. Selected recent solo exhibitions include Bodega Run, Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019); Tschabalala Self, Frye Museum, Seattle (2019); Bodega Run, Yuz Museum, West Bund Shanghai (2018); Bodega Run, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (2017); Sour Patch, Thierry Goldberg, Miami (2017); Tschabalala Self,Tramway, Glasgow (2017); Tschabalala Self, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London (2017); Desire, Moore Building, Miami (2016); The Function, T293, Naples (2016). Recent group exhibitions include The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2018); Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2017); A Shape That Stands Up, Art + Practice, Los Angeles (2016); A Constellation, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2015); and MOOD, MoMA PS1 in collaboration with the Studio Museum in Harlem , Queens (2019).

The Warmth of Other Suns
A Discussion on Representations and Perceptions of Migration in Art

Hunter MFA Studios
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY

Please enter through the 205 Hudson Street Gallery entrance on Canal Street

May 23, 7pm

With Dr. Dorothy Kosinski, Vradenburg Director & CEO, The Phillips Collection
Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, the New Museum
and artists Nari Ward and Aliza Nisenbaum
Moderated by Natalie Bell, Associate Curator, the New Museum

The discussion will center around themes in The Phillips Collection’s upcoming exhibition The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, featuring over 75 international artists whose work poses urgent questions around perceptions of migration and the current global refugee crisis. Opens June 22.

Simone Meltesen and Claudia Gerbracht: She-Shells

Thomas Hunter Project Space
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY

May 20 – June 8
Opening reception: May 30, 6-9pm

BFA Thesis Exhibition: The End

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY

May 15 – June 16
Opening reception: May 15, 6–8pm

The Hunter College BFA Program and the Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present the Spring 2019 BFA Thesis Exhibition, The End, at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, May 15 through June 16, 2019. The exhibition will feature works by Tyler Brown, Clara Cruz, Madeleine Putnam, Jes Sweat, Nicki Wong, and Chunghee Yun. The opening reception will be held on Wednesday, May 15, 6–8pm, during which there will be a durational performance by Nicki Wong. The gallery is free and open to the public Wednesday through Sunday, 1–6pm.

Image: Jes Sweat, LYCA, 2019. Stop motion animation.

Tauba Auerbach

The Artist’s Institute
132 E. 65th Street
New York, NY

April 12 – June 1
Opening Reception: April 12, 6-8pm

Tauba Auerbach wants to know how matter and energy flow; how rhythms and patterns emerge from and structure these flows; and how electromagnetic flows in the body and brain amount to life and consciousness. To investigate these things, she pours through scientific journals, attends philosophical conferences, and studies YouTube videos on anatomy, magnetism, and molecular biology. But Auerbach is equally engaged by heterodox theories and indigenous wisdom—panpsychism, traditional medicinal practices, ancient string games—viewing the path of knowledge as a spiral that always doubles back to confirm and revive neglected or rejected perspectives. She approaches all these subjects as an artist, embracing art’s subjectivity and taking bias as a data point in her investigation of the world.

Auerbach’s exploration of fluid dynamics is evident in her Extended Object paintings (2018– ), which freeze a field of cascading droplets that appear to vibrate, swirl, and eddy, though they are motionless. Her Ligature Drawings (2017– ) elaborate on the connections between flow patterns and traditions of ornament, following a pulsing line through improvisational—at times sonically amplified and performed—calligraphy. “I don’t want to just draw the rhythm,” she says; “I want to be the rhythm, to sense the rhythms I already am.”

Auerbach’s latest works—her first kinetic sculptures—push this idea further. Rather than picturing the rhythms of fluids and forms, the sculptures are themselves dynamic, allowing a set of key gestures to unfold over time. A soap film fills the central opening of a mechanism referencing Auerbach’s fascination with fascia (the meshwork of connective tissue that surrounds muscles, organs, glands, and blood vessels) and the interstitium (the newly discovered structure of fluid-filled compartments that extends throughout the body and constitutes one of its largest organs). Another pair of sculptures exhibits different types of spin: exploring the dynamism of asymmetry and symmetry, AC and DC currents. A YouTube video library offers an array of approaches to capturing or modeling the microscopic forms and movements at the heart of Auerbach’s current curiosity.

Koyo Kouoh, Goldberg Visiting Curator Lecture
Hunter MFA Studios, Second Floor Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
May 15, 7pm

 

 

Malin Abrahamsson: Spaceholders

Thomas Hunter Project Space
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY

Through May 18
Opening Reception: April 25, 5-7pm

Thomas Hunter Project Space is pleased to present SPACEHOLDERS, a solo exhibition by Malin Abrahamsson:

“At the heart of my practice lies an interest in transformation: the process through which a thing, place, state, or being changes into something entirely new. The organic world is defined by such metamorphosis, but profound existential change is no less vital to human life. Driven by intuition and experimentation, my current work in Spaceholders conceptually revolves around the idea, shape, and purpose of the vessel. The small-scale mixed-media objects are wonky and impractical containers for everything that is important. Drawn to ceramics for its transformative qualities, I love listening in on the ceaseless chatter between color, contrast, texture, and form.”

Emily Jacir, MFASO Lecture

Hunter MFA Studios, Second Floor Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY

May 10, 7pm

Emily Jacir is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker. Born in Bethlehem in 1973, Jacir spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, attending high school in Italy. She attended Memphis College of Art and graduated with an art degree. She divides her time between Rome, Italy and Ramallah.

Jacir works in a variety of media including film, photography, installation, performance, video, writing and sound. She has exhibited extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East since 1994, holding solo exhibitions in places including New York City, Los Angeles, Ramallah, Beirut, London and Linz.

Active in the building of Ramallah’s art scene since 1999, Jacir has also worked with various organizations including the A. M. Qattan Foundation, al-Ma’mal Foundation and the Sakakini Cultural Center. She has been involved in creating numerous projects and events such as Birzeit’s Virtual Art Gallery. She also founded and curated the first International Video Festival in Ramallah in 2002.She curated a selection of shorts; Palestinian Revolution Cinema (1968 – 1982) which went on tour in 2007. Between 2000 – 2002 she curated several Arab Film programs in NYC with Alwan for the Arts including the first Palestinian Film Festival in 2002. She works as a full-time professor at the vanguard International Academy of Art Palestine since it opened its doors in 2006 and she also served on its Academic Board from 2006 through 2012. Jacir led the first year of the Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Program in Beirut (2011-2012) and created the curriculum and programming after serving on the founding year of the Curricular Committee from 2010-2011. (Wikipedia)

do it (in school)

Hunter East Harlem Gallery
2180 3rd Avenue at 119th Street
New York, NY

April 12 – June 1
Opening Reception: April 12, 4-8pm

Works created by New York City High School students studying at Art and Design High School in Manhattan; Fordham High School for the Art in Bronx; Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School in Queens; Manhattan/Hunter Science High School; PS7 8th Graders in East Harlem, among others.

In 1993, the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist together with artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier, conceived do it, an exhibition based entirely on artists’ instructions that could be followed to create temporary artworks to be displayed as an exhibition. do it challenges traditional exhibition formats, questions authorship, and champions art’s ability to exist beyond a single gallery space. Beginning 26 years ago with 12 sets of instructions, do it has grown to include instructions from 400 artists, and shown in more than 150 art centers in over 15 countries.

Building on this history, the latest version of the exhibition is called do it (in school)and is a selection of instructions that form a study-based curriculum for high school students.