A.L. Steiner, MFASO Lecture
Hunter MFA, Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
March 6, 7pm
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.
Refiguring the Future – Opens February 8
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 – January 30, 7pm
First Semester Slideshow
Hunter MFA Studios, Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
January 30, 7pm
Making Spaces – Opening Reception January 30, 5-7pm
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
Amra Causevic | Andrew Foster | Elizabeth Harney
Emily Janowick | Tom Morill | Ye’ela Wilschanski
Curated by Talia Levitt, Liz Naiden, Renate Pracane and Tan Tian
Making Spaces collects artists that carve out specific physical and psychological spaces of their own within the gallery. Some works create physically enclosed or partitioned areas, while others refer to specific places beyond the gallery’s walls, or to interiors of the body and mind.
Artists, Institutions, and Public Funding for the Arts: The Legacy of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, 1974-1982 – February 15, 7pm
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 – Through January 26
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 – Through February 23
Material Message
Thomas Hunter Project Space
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
Through February 23
Thomas Hunter Hallway Project Space is proud to present Material Message, a group show of artwork made in multiple styles whose meaning is derived through the medium. The formal qualities of each work resembles particular art historical traditions, such as mid-century formalist abstraction, but the content is subtly inserted through the particular resonances and associations inherent to the materials. Featuring the work of Emily Carris, Natalie Kuenzi, Leonor Marion-Landais, Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Lauren Amalia Redding, and Mat Tomezsko. Curated by Mat Tomezsko.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fall 2018 Part II – Walk-through and Performances, December 18, 6pm
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 – December 19, 7pm
Katherine Behar, Alumni Lecture
Hunter MFA Studios, Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
December 19, 7pm