Hunter MFA Studios
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
March 8, 6-9pm
Rachel Gisela Cohen, Camouflage – Opening Reception March 1, 6-9pm
Rachel Gisela Cohen, Camouflage
Thomas Hunter Project Space
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
Through March 23
Opening Reception: March 1, 6-9pm
Thomas Hunter Project Space is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and drawings by New York City-based artist Rachel Gisela Cohen.
In nature, bright, bold coloration and patterning is often a signifier of seduction or a warning sign for danger; like the juxtaposing yellow and black stripes found on a wasp, or the crimson circled abdomen of a black widow spider. Aposematic color and patterning is used as a signal, or warning sign for predators. The color and patterning of Cohen’s sequined encrusted chromatic paintings stem from both an observation and reflection on organisms and materials found deep inside Costa Rican rainforest ecosystems and New York City’s garment district. Using the decorative as a defense mechanism, her work reflects on beauty, surface and the excess of contemporary culture, dancing between the natural and material world.
Curator-led Tour of Refiguring the Future – March 2, 2-3pm
Curator-led Tour of Refiguring the Future
205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
March 2, 2-3pm
Free and open to the public.
ASL interpretation will be provided for this tour.
The Lives of Artists – Through March 3
The Lives of Artists
Second Floor Project Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
Through March 3
Marina Rosenfeld: Amplification – Opens February 21
Marina Rosenfeld: Amplification
The Artists’ Institute
132 E. 65th Street
New York, NY
February 21 – March 30
Opening Reception: February 21, 6-8pm
Marina Rosenfeld creates sound systems. Sometimes these are performances for military orchestras or for rows of earbud-linked teenagers; at other times they take the form of physical interventions into sites, charging various objects (bass cannons, PA loudspeakers, or microphone clusters) with the tasks of amplification and reproduction. In every instance, Rosenfeld carefully attends to the distribution and directionality of amplified bodies in space, considering the relations of power that these arrangements concretize and contest. Eschewing sound as transmission—the authoritative, unidirectional pronouncement—Rosenfeld explores the disruptive, feminist potential of machinic propagation. She programs unruly flows of sonic material in closed circuits or recursive, feedback-prone systems, interrupting the silence of the white cube with momentary eruptions of noise and vocality.
Afternoon Gallery Walk-Thru & Haitian Folkloric Dance workshop with La Troupe Zetwal – February 21, 3:30pm
Afternoon Gallery Walk-Thru & Haitian Folkloric Dance workshop
with La Troupe Zetwal
part of Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti
Hunter East Harlem Gallery
2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street
New York, NY
February 21st
3:30 – 4:30pm Gallery Walk
5:00 – 6:30pm Haitian Folkloric Dance workshop
Join the curator Arden Sherman & Nora Nieves for a gallery tour of the exhibition Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haitifollowed by an exiting Haitian Folkloric Dance workshop with the group La Troupe Zetwal. The dance workshop will be led by the instructor, Shirley Davilmar, accompanied by the drummers Menesky Magloire and Jean Mary Brignol.
Aztec Metropolis: the Spanish Conquest and the Birth of Mexico City: A Talk by Barbara Mundy – March 6, 6:30pm
Aztec Metropolis: the Spanish Conquest and the Birth of Mexico City: A Talk by Barbara Mundy
Roosevelt House
47-49 East 65th Street
New York, NY
March 6, 6:30pm
Barbara Mundy is Professor of Art History at Fordham University and has written widely on the cartography of the indigenous peoples of Mexico. Her newest book, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City (2015) looks at the ecology and ritual life of one of the largest cities in the world in the 16th century, as it was transformed from the Aztec imperial capital into the center of the Spanish viceroyalty. She has won multiple awards for her scholarship, including two for this recent book and the Nebenzahl Prize in the History of Cartography for The Mapping of New Spain (1996). She contributed to the path breaking series The History of Cartography, which received the American Historical Association’s James Henry Breasted Prize for 1999, and she edited, with Mary Miller, Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City: Land, Writing and Native Rule(2012), an interdisciplinary study of a rare indigenous map.
Miguel Gutierrez, MFASO Lecture – February 13, 7pm
Miguel Gutierrez, MFASO Lecture
Hunter MFA, Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
February 13, 7pm
New Media Caucus Member Showcase – February 14
New Media Caucus Member Showcase
Hunter MFA Building
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
February 14, 8pm
EJ Hauser, MFASO Lecture – February 6, 7pm
EJ Hauser, MFASO Lecture
Hunter MFA, Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
February 6, 7pm
Mat Tomezsko, NOW – Opening February 8, 6pm
Mat Tomezsko, Now
Thomas Hunter Project Space
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
Through February 23
Opening Reception: February 8, 6-8pm
NOW is a solo exhibition of multimedia paintings by Mat Tomezsko made through an elaborate process of layering, patterning, adding, and subtracting an excessive amount of acrylic, spray paint, and asphalt. The slippery use of language alludes to the various meanings found in the multiple arrangements of letters. It explores the visual dynamic between the words “own”, “won”, and “now”. The letters, colors, symbols, and materials in the paintings are used as abstract elements, and contain associations and resonance outside of the painterly context. The formulation of letters can be seen as a distillation of a timeless truth, about the shifting nature of time, and the relationship between narrative and power.