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Refiguring the Future

205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY

February 8 – March 31

Conference: February 9 – 10

February 9th, 10am – 6pm
Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
695 Park Avenue
New York, New York

February 10th, 12pm – 6pm
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Avenue
Maspeth, New York

*Full detailed schedule coming soon

Refiguring the Future is organized by Eyebeam and REFRESH in collaboration with the Hunter College Art Galleries.Curated by REFRESH collective members Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Dorothy R. Santos, the exhibition title is inspired by artist Morehshin Allahyari’s work defining a concept of “refiguring” as a feminist, de-colonial, and activist practice. Informed by the punk ethos of do-it-yourself (DIY), the 18 artists featured in Refiguring the Future deeply mine the historical and cultural roots of our time, pull apart the artifice of contemporary technology, and sift through the pieces to forge new visions of what could become.

The exhibition will present 11 new works alongside re-presented immersive works by feminist, queer, decolonial, anti-racist, and anti-ableist artists concerned with our technological and political moment including: Morehshin Allahyari, Lee Blalock, Zach Blas*, micha cárdenas* and Abraham Avnisan, In Her Interior (Virginia Barratt and Francesca da Rimini)*, Mary Maggic, Lauren McCarthy, shawné michaelain holloway*, Claire and Martha Pentecost, Sonya Rapoport, Barak adé Soleil, Sputniko! and Tomomi Nishizawa, Stephanie Syjuco, and Pinar Yoldas*.

*Denotes participation in conference.

First Semester Slideshow

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

January 30, 7pm

Making Spaces

A group show of current MFAs, curated by students from the Fall 2018 class Create, Curate, Critique.

205 Project Space, Hunter MFA Studios
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY

January 28 – February 3
Opening Reception: January 30, 5-7pm with a performance by Ye’ela Wilschanski

Artists, Institutions, and Public Funding for the Arts: The Legacy of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, 1974-1982

Kossak Lecture Hall, 1527
Hunter North Building
East 69th Street between Lexington and Park
New York, NY

February 15, 7pm

Confirmed participants are: Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, City of New York; Ted S. Berger, Executive Director of NYFA from 1973-2005; Rochelle Slovin, a director of CETA’s Cultural Council Foundation/Artists Project in New York and founding director of the Museum of the Moving Image; and Steven Dubin, a CETA participant in Chicago’s CETA Artists-in-Residence program, now a professor of sociology at Columbia, and the author of Bureaucratizing the Muse: Public Funds and the Cultural Worker.  

Gabriel Bennett: Territory: Organs

Thomas Hunter Project Space
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY

Through January 26

Thomas Hunter Project Space is pleased to present Gabriel Bennett’s  Territory: Organs, a large sculpture selected from his Territory series, several works based on large mold of the artist’s face. Bennett uses different casting material to evoke different characters and identities: Organs was made from casting expanding foam that replicates the growth of organs in the body. The growth of the organs becomes influenced by the logic of the material’s expansion, accumulation, dripping and fusion.

Material Message

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fall 2018

205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
Part II, Opening December 15

with

Corey Allen
Alison Kizu-Blair
Michelle Hernandez Vega
Lili Jamail
Jessi Li
Wai Ying Zhao
Jason Rondinelli
Christopher Roberson

Katherine Behar, Alumni Lecture

Hunter MFA Studios, Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
December 19, 7pm

BFA Thesis Exhibition

Leubsdorf Gallery
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY
December 12 – January 13
Opening Reception: December 12, 6-8pm

Maggie Nelson and Ben Lerner

The Artist’s Institute
132 E. 65th Street
New York, New York
December 14, 7pm

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

November 7 – March 2
Opening Reception: November 7, 6-9pm

Hunter East Harlem Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti opening on November 7, 2018. Dust Specks on the Sea focuses on sculptural works by over twenty contemporary artists from Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guyana, and Haiti and addresses the various positionings of the postcolonial condition in this region.

Exhibiting artists: Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Julie Bessard, Hervé Beuze, Jean-François Boclé, Alex Burke, Vladimir Cybil Charlier, Gaëlle Choisne, Ronald Cyrille, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Kenny Dunkan, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Adler Guerrier, Jean-Marc Hunt, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Nathalie Leroy-Fiévée, Audry Liseron-Monfils, Louisa Marajo, Ricardo Ozier-Lafontaine, Jérémie Paul, Marielle Plaisir, Tabita Rezaire, Yoan Sorin

The exhibition is curated by Arden Sherman and Assistant Curator Katie Hood Morgan.

Jasbir Puar, MFASO Lecture

Hunter MFA Studios, Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
December 5, 7pm

Percival Everett

The Artist’s Institute
132 E. 65th Street
New York, New York
December 5, 7pm

Sharon Core, Understory – Live View

Thomas Hunter Project Space
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
Through December 31
Opening Reception: December 7, 6-8pm

The artist writes:

“The project Understory began in 2013, with the construction of an 800 square foot geodesic dome on my property in Upstate NY. My intention was to create a landscape inside the dome, a cultivated environment that would mimic the forest floor setting in the paintings of the 17^thcentury artist Otto Marseus Van Schriek that depict a theater of the natural world where flowers spring up amidst mushrooms, rotting wood, moss, and creatures of prey. After filling the dome with topsoil and decomposing matter, I planted a variety of vegetation, many selected for their psychotropic properties and symbolism.  I introduced living creatures such as toads, snakes, snails, and insects. I began photographing the development of the environment and creating a series of photographs that were first exhibited at the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York in March and April of 2016. “

“Live View is a departure from the still images and has grown out of my intense observation of the world inside the dome and its changes from minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day, season to season and year to year. Here the viewer is presented with a simulcast view of the environment to observe. One might see a turtle or praying mantis move into the frame or barely perceive the tendrils of a vine reaching to climb higher or none of these things. Live View asks the viewer to imagine what might exist outside of our human perceptual frame. Just as the light of day is continuously shifting just beyond our awareness, so do all elements in the natural world constantly move and change in a cycle of growth, decay, and regeneration.”

Sharon Core, 2017

David Diao, Kossak Lecture

Hunter MFA Studios
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
December 11, 10am