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March 23 & 26, at 4pm and 5pm each day
Hunter College West Lobby
Speaking in Pairs Dialogue
Friday, March 20th
Programming will take place from 2–7pm, followed by a Reception from 7–8pm.
Program supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Ida K. Lang Recital Hall, Room 424, Hunter North Building
695 Park Ave., New York, NY 10065
Guests without Hunter ID must enter on the south side of East 69th St., between Park & Lexington Avenues.
Photo ID required for entry.
To view the livestream of the event, click here.
Left: Migrant Mother, 1936, Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Right: Holding Emmanuelle, 2008, Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Elinor Carucci.
Furthering the exhibition Speaking in Pairs and its emphasis on dialogue and duality, this day-long interdisciplinary program brings together artists, scholars, conservators, and performers in often paired conversations exploring portraiture, history, memory, and the power of representation. The program opens with a screening of Hommage à August Sander (1977), a 21-minute documentary film by Pavel Schnabel, followed by the day’s paired talks. It also features vocalist Beth Griffith performing an English rendition of Marieluise. A Report by Kerstin Specht, joined by dancer Yehuda Hyman, weaving embodied performance into the day’s layered exchanges.
Featured participants include: Luis Corzo, Vie Darling, Meredith Davenport, Steven Donziger, Beth Griffith, Rick Guidotte, Tess Hamilton, Benjamin Hett, Yehuda Hyman, Adrienne Keller, Reiner Leist, Naomi Levinshtein, Susan Meiselas, Paul Messier, Kendall Rogers, Stefan Ruiz, Caroline Rupprecht, Kristina Shook, Stephanie Stebich, Sally Stein, Camilo Vergara, and Virginia Inés Vergara
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Speaking in Pairs is curated by Reiner Leist, Professor of Art & Art History at Hunter College, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar. The exhibition is organized by Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and Tara Ohanian, Assistant Curator and Exhibitions Manager. Exhibition design: Louisa Thompson and Reiner Leist in collaboration with curatorial fellows Caitlin Anklam, Adrienne Keller, and Sofia Rivera. MA and MFA students: Noa Raviv, Kendall Rogers, Vivek Sebastian, and Ingrid Song.
The exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund, the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Crossway Foundation. A catalogue, co-published with Hirmer Publishers and forthcoming in Fall 2026, is funded by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.
ABOUT THE HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES
Part of the college’s Department of Art and Art History, the Hunter College Art Galleries have contributed to New York City’s vital cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter of a century ago. The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. Located on Hunter’s main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery presents research-driven historical exhibitions that provide new scholarship on important and often under-represented artists and art movements.
For more information about exhibitions and public programs visit: huntercollegeartgalleries.org
PRESS INQUIRIES
E-mail Aleeq Kroshian, aleeq.kroshian@hunter.cuny.edu
Anna Lise Jensen, From the series One Leg Out/Faceless Portrait, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Lecture & Musical Performance
Wednesday, March 4th, 5–7pm
Program supported by the Boris Lurie Art Foundation
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065
World‑renowned violinist Ilana Zaks Nederlander honors the legacy of Holocaust survivor and artist Boris Lurie (1924–2008) and his NO!art movement through a program of works by Jewish composers whose lives were shaped by the Holocaust. Vocalist Beth Griffith, joined by dancer and poet Yehuda Hyman, performs an English rendition of Marieluise. A Report by Kerstin Specht. This tribute to German playwright Marieluise Fleißer presented alongside the work of Lurie, draws connections between these artists’ experiences and their enduring creative resilience. The evening will feature introductory remarks by Stephanie Stebich, Executive Director of the Boris Lurie Art Foundation.
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Speaking in Pairs is curated by Reiner Leist, Professor of Art & Art History at Hunter College, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar. The exhibition is organized by Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and Tara Ohanian, Assistant Curator and Exhibitions Manager. Exhibition design: Louisa Thompson and Reiner Leist in collaboration with curatorial fellows Caitlin Anklam, Adrienne Keller, and Sofia Rivera. MA and MFA students: Noa Raviv, Kendall Rogers, Vivek Sebastian, and Ingrid Song.
The exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund, the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Crossway Foundation. A catalogue, co-published with Hirmer Publishers and forthcoming in Fall 2026, is funded by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.
ABOUT THE HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES
Part of the college’s Department of Art and Art History, the Hunter College Art Galleries have contributed to New York City’s vital cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter of a century ago. The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. Located on Hunter’s main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery presents research-driven historical exhibitions that provide new scholarship on important and often under-represented artists and art movements.
For more information about exhibitions and public programs visit: huntercollegeartgalleries.org
PRESS INQUIRIES
E-mail Aleeq Kroshian, aleeq.kroshian@hunter.cuny.edu
Left: Migrant Mother, 1936, Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Right: Holding Emmanuelle, 2008, Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Elinor Carucci.
Speaking in Pairs
February 5 – April 19, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday February 5, 6–8 pm
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065
Can a portrait represent violence and healing at the same time? A photograph made by artist August Sander of Hermann Leubsdorf in 1938, in Cologne, Germany, suggests that it can.
Speaking in Pairs, on view Spring 2026 in a gallery endowed by the Leubsdorf family, looks at the aesthetic, material, social, and political layers that portraits offer—revealing how the people they portray, their makers and viewers, and the changing world they exist in connect and conflict in shifting cycles over time.
More than eighty contributors—artists, historians, lawyers, doctors, writers, curators, and more—come together for this exhibition, which presents works in a continually evolving installation and uses books, posters, and ephemera to visually illuminate the connections between vernacular photography and art, nobody and somebody, the personal and public. An array of viewpoints blurs the lines between artists, curators, and other subjects, and between non-fiction and fiction.
Along the way, we note the 200th birthday of photography (2026), the 150th birthday of August Sander (1876–1964), the 125th birthday of playwright Marieluise Fleißer (1901–1974), the 100th birthday of Boris Lurie (1924–2008), and the approaching 40th anniversary of the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery on March 8th, 2027.
August Sander (1876-1964), Hermann Leubsdorf, Victim of Persecution, 1938, Cologne, Germany, Courtesy of John Leubsdorf. © Die Photographische Sammlung/Sk Stiftung Kultur–August Sander Archiv, Cologne/VG-Bildkunst 2025.
Reiner Leist, exhibition curator and Hunter College Professor, writes:
“Portraits allow immortality. This exhibition asks: Who gets to be pictured and seen? Who may tell their story? Such evidence of being present, alive, can also increase visibility or hasten our demise. Speaking in Pairs seeks to offer navigational references across time and geography, between works and the practitioners making, or pondering, them. The Leubsdorf family fled Germany in 1938 and in the 1980s descendants of Hermann Leubsdorf endowed the Hunter College Art Gallery on the 68th Street campus. Speaking in Pairs considers art's historical and contemporary response to oppression and crisis, in a space long used to offer representation to those impacted by extraordinary and unspeakable events.”
Juxtaposing images created at points of conflict and growth in history, Speaking in Pairs examines how multiple conflicting forces can be viewed and experienced in what appears—at face value—to be a quiet photograph. Dynamics between sitters and artists, and those who later view their collaborations, infuse the experience. The works convey an evolving meaning that can spark vital conversations.
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Speaking in Pairs is curated by Reiner Leist, Professor of Art & Art History at Hunter College, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar. The exhibition is organized by Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and Tara Ohanian, Assistant Curator and Exhibitions Manager. Exhibition design: Louisa Thompson and Reiner Leist in collaboration with curatorial fellows Caitlin Anklam, Adrienne Keller, and Sofia Rivera. MA and MFA students: Noa Raviv, Kendall Rogers, Vivek Sebastian, and Ingrid Song.
The exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund, the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Crossway Foundation. A catalogue, co-published with Hirmer Publishers and forthcoming in Fall 2026, is funded by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.
ABOUT THE HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES
Part of the college’s Department of Art and Art History, the Hunter College Art Galleries have contributed to New York City’s vital cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter of a century ago. The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. Located on Hunter’s main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery presents research-driven historical exhibitions that provide new scholarship on important and often under-represented artists and art movements.
For more information about exhibitions and public programs visit: huntercollegeartgalleries.org
PRESS INQUIRIES
E-mail Aleeq Kroshian, aleeq.kroshian@hunter.cuny.edu
Artes Visuales no. 17, marzo-mayo/march-may 1978
JSP Art Photography
November 12, 6pm
205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street (at Canal St.)
New York, NY 10013
This screening features Latin American artists working in video during the run of Artes Visuales, from 1973 to 1981, highlighting the avant garde tendencies the magazine sought to foreground.
From its first issue, Artes Visuales championed the popular arts in its pages, making space for vernacular photography and film to be appreciated alongside the traditional fine artforms of painting and sculpture. As video art rose to prominence in the 1970s with the accessibility of the Super 8 camera, the magazine documented the emergence of this experimental new media. Issue 17, from the spring of 1978, is devoted entirely to video art and places artists from Latin America, the United States, and Europe in conversation about the conceptual and practical capabilities of the moving image as medium.
This film screening is organized in conjunction with the curatorial practica seminar related to Artes Visuales. Curated by Harper Montgomery, Susan and David Bershad Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Art Galleries, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar and curatorial student fellows: Reuben Gordon, Lisa Mason, and Grace Sanabria. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).
This exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). The exhibition's catalogue has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 16, 2025, 6-8pm
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street (at Lexington)
New York, NY 10065
On view October 16 - December 13, 2025
Additional programming details forthcoming.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Gathering artists whose work appeared in the influential magazine published by Mexico’s Museo de Arte Moderno and directed by Carla Stellweg from 1973 to 1981, the exhibition calls attention to an international community of experimental makers. Featuring artworks by Luis Camnitzer (Uruguay and the United States), Antonio Caro (Colombia), Manuel Felguérez (Mexico), Paulina Lavista (Mexico), Vicente Rojo (Spain and Mexico), Regina Vater (Brazil), Anna Bella Geiger (Brazil), Jorge Caraballo (Uruguay), Alfredo Portillos (Argentina), Marta Palau (Spain and Mexico), Victor Grippo (Argentina) and others, this rigorously researched exhibition and accompanying catalogue demonstrate how this groundbreaking periodical expanded the bounds of art and cultivated a community for innovative creative practice. Curated by Harper Montgomery, Susan and David Bershad Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Art Galleries, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar and curatorial student fellows: Reuben Gordon, Lisa Mason, and Grace Sanabria. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).
The catalogue features an interview with Carla Stellweg, essays on painting, page art, photography, and performance, as well as a chronology and bibliography related to the activities and publications of Stellweg and the circle of artists and critics she gathered on the pages of Artes Visuales.
This exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). The exhibition's catalogue has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.
PUBLICATION
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Coming in Spring 2026, Hunter College and Marquand Books will co-publish an exhibition catalogue to accompany Artes Visuales, The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print.
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Coming in Spring 2026, Hunter College and Marquand Books will co-publish an exhibition catalogue to accompany Artes Visuales, The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print.
ABOUT THE HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES
Part of the college’s Department of Art and Art History, the Hunter College Art Galleries have contributed to New York City’s vital cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter of a century ago. The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. The 205 Hudson Gallery on the department’s MFA Studio Art Campus in Tribeca is dedicated to presenting exhibitions and programming that engage issues critical to contemporary art and artists. In Spring semesters, the gallery also hosts a series of MFA thesis exhibitions. Located on Hunter’s main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery presents research-driven historical exhibitions that provide new scholarship on important and often under-represented artists and art movements. The Hunter East Harlem Gallery, located in the Silberman School of Social Work at 119th Street and 3rd Avenue, is dedicated to collaborative social practice and art and artists engaged with issues relevant to the East Harlem community and to the city more broadly.
PRESS INQUIRIES
E-mail Aleeq Kroshian, aleeq.kroshian@hunter.cuny.edu
Friday, March 21
2-5pm: Roundtable Discussion
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
47-49 E 65th St, New York (btwn Madison and Park)
5-7pm: Closing Reception and Book Launch
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 East 68th St, New York (btwn Lexington and Park)
To mark the release of Acts of Art in Greenwich Village (co-published by Hunter College Art Galleries and Hirmer Publishers), please join us for a dynamic and thought-provoking conversation highlighting some of New York's thriving Black-owned galleries. Bringing together gallerists who first opened their pioneering spaces in the 1970s and 1980s with representatives from Black-owned galleries founded in the past decade, the conversation will bridge generations, uncovering unique perspectives and shared experiences. Don’t miss this chance to explore the varied histories and the multiple futures of Black artistic spaces and opportunities.
Featured participants include: Peg Alston (Peg Alston Fine Art), Richard Beavers (Richard Beavers Gallery), Erwin John and Stevenson Dunn, Jr. (The Bishop Gallery), Bill Hodges (Bill Hodges Gallery), and Naima Wood (Dorsey's Fine Art Gallery)
The roundtable discussion will be followed by a light reception at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, a six-minute walk away. Please feel welcome to join one or both events. Our newly released exhibition catalogue will be available for purchase at both Roosevelt House and the gallery.
Our newly released exhibition catalogue will be available for purchase at the event.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Founded by artists Nigel Jackson and Patricia Grey in 1969, Acts of Art was first located at 31 Bedford Street and later moved to 15 Charles Street in the West Village. In 1971, the gallery mounted Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition, the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s strategic response to the Whitney’s concurrent Contemporary Black Artists in America. That same year, the gallery hosted the inaugural exhibition of the Black women artists collective Where We At. Before Acts of Art closed in 1975, it presented one- and two-person exhibitions by twenty-six different artists, and numerous group exhibitions. Acts of Art in Greenwich Village centers Acts of Art and its director’s curatorial vision, tracing the gallery’s exhibition history as it intersects with other histories of Black art and artists in New York—and with formations like the BECC, Where We At, and the Weusi Artists. Installed in Hunter College’s Leubsdorf Gallery, the exhibition features artworks from the late 1960s and 1970s by fourteen artists with close ties to the gallery, a number of which were first shown at Acts of Art. A catalog with the gallery’s complete exhibition history is available to purchase and essays on key group exhibitions, including the first show of the Black women artists collective “Where We At,”.
This exhibition is made possible by the The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund. The exhibition's catalog has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.
Left to right: Ademola Olugebefola, Ben Jones, Fay Leeper, Dindga McCannon, Ann Tanksley, Lloyd Toone
JSP Art Photography
Professor and Curator Howard Singerman
JSP Art Photography
Professor and Poet Ama Birch
JSP Art Photography
JSP Art Photography
JSP Art Photography
JSP Art Photography
JSP Art Photography
JSP Art Photography
JSP Art Photography
JSP Art Photography
Acts of Art Community Conversation
Saturday, November 9, 2–6:30pm
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
47-49 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065
Please join artists and friends of Acts of Art gallery in conversation on Saturday, November 9, from 2–6:30.
Participants include exhibition artists Ben Jones, Dindga McCannon, Ademola Olugebefola, Ann Tanksley, Lloyd Toone; and community activist and collector Fay Leeper. Moderated by Howard Singerman.
All HCAG programs are free and open to public. Please let us know if you have accessibility concerns or questions and we will be happy to help. Email: hcag@hunter.cuny.edu.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Founded by artists Nigel Jackson and Patricia Grey in 1969, Acts of Art was first located at 31 Bedford Street and later moved to 15 Charles Street in the West Village. In 1971, the gallery mounted Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition, the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s strategic response to the Whitney’s concurrent Contemporary Black Artists in America. That same year, the gallery hosted the inaugural exhibition of the Black women artists collective Where We At. Before Acts of Art closed in 1975, it presented one- and two-person exhibitions by twenty-six different artists, and numerous group exhibitions. Acts of Art in Greenwich Village centers Acts of Art and its director’s curatorial vision, tracing the gallery’s exhibition history as it intersects with other histories of Black art and artists in New York—and with formations like the BECC, Where We At, and the Weusi Artists. Installed in Hunter College’s Leubsdorf Gallery, the exhibition features artworks from the late 1960s and 1970s by fourteen artists with close ties to the gallery, a number of which were first shown at Acts of Art.
Curated by Howard Singerman, Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Professor of Art History, with Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar.
Curatorial fellows: Eve Arballo, Kelis George, and Nicolas Poblete. MA and MFA Students: Ansley Browning, Karewith Casas, Erin Chase, Brianna Golub, Yayun Deng, June Kitahara, Laura Luo, Sondra McGill, Chloe Ming, Mary Lisette Morris, Grace Sanabria.
This exhibition is made possible by the Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition Fund Endowment. The exhibition's catalog has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Photography by Mattew Capowski
Public Opening Reception
November 7, 6—8pm
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065
All HCAG programs are free and open to public. Please let us know if you have accessibility concerns or questions and we will be happy to help. Email: hcag@hunter.cuny.edu.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Founded by artists Nigel Jackson and Patricia Grey in 1969, Acts of Art was first located at 31 Bedford Street and later moved to 15 Charles Street in the West Village. In 1971, the gallery mounted Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition, the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s strategic response to the Whitney’s concurrent Contemporary Black Artists in America. That same year, the gallery hosted the inaugural exhibition of the Black women artists collective Where We At. Before Acts of Art closed in 1975, it presented one- and two-person exhibitions by twenty-six different artists, and numerous group exhibitions. Acts of Art in Greenwich Village centers Acts of Art and its director’s curatorial vision, tracing the gallery’s exhibition history as it intersects with other histories of Black art and artists in New York—and with formations like the BECC, Where We At, and the Weusi Artists. Installed in Hunter College’s Leubsdorf Gallery, the exhibition features artworks from the late 1960s and 1970s by fourteen artists with close ties to the gallery, a number of which were first shown at Acts of Art.
Curated by Howard Singerman, Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Professor of Art History, with Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar.
Curatorial fellows: Eve Arballo, Kelis George, and Nicolas Poblete. MA and MFA Students: Ansley Browning, Karewith Casas, Erin Chase, Brianna Golub, Yayun Deng, June Kitahara, Laura Luo, Sondra McGill, Chloe Ming, Mary Lisette Morris, Grace Sanabria.
This exhibition is made possible by the Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition Fund Endowment. The exhibition's catalog has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.
BFA Thesis Exhibition: lunchbox
Closing Reception
Saturday, June 8 @ 5:00-8:00pm
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter College West Building
132 East 68th Street, NY, NY 10065
Please join us for the closing reception and last look at the BFA degree show on Saturday, June 8th 5:00-8:00pm. The exhibition will feature works by Peter Ayala, Jarrett Esaw, Sarah Lou Haddad, Natalie Hernandez, Dianna Hu, Frankie Tejada Lizardo, Mario Daniel Martinez, Alex Perloff, Maria Fernanda Rivera, Noelle Salaun, and Sara Shaw.
BFA Pop-Up Show: TAKEOUT
Opening Reception
Wednesday, May 29th @ 5:00pm
205 Hudson Street, 2nd Floor
The Hunter College BFA Program and the Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present a Pop-Up show at 205 Hudson Street, 2nd floor.
The exhibition will feature works by Peter Ayala, Jarrett Esaw, Sarah Lou Haddad, Natalie Hernandez, Dianna Hu, Frankie Tejada Lizardo, Mario Daniel Martinez, Alex Perloff, Maria Fernanda Rivera, Noelle Salaun, and Sara Shaw.
Please join us for an opening reception with the artists, faculty, students, and guests on Wednesday, May 29th, 5:00pm.
If you wish to visit the exhibition from May 30-June 8th, please email hunterbfaso@gmail.com to schedule your visit appointment.
Programming-in-Progress is a series of free public programs in conjunction with the exhibition,“Cosmic Shelter: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Private Cosmococas.”
See below for event programming. Click HERE to download a Programming-in-Progress flier.
PAST EVENTS:
Installation view, Cosmic Shelter: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Private Cosmococas. Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, October 12, 2023-March 30, 2024. Photo by Argenis Apolinario.
“Marginality as Process: The South Bronx and Hélio Oiticica” by Angelica Pomar
“A Plan for a Practice: Hélio Oiticica’s Experiments in New York at the Boundaries of Time-Based Media” by Rowan Diaz-Toth
"Gardens, Wars, Politics, and Cinema: A Discussion on Neville D’Almeida’s Jardim de Guerra" by Thais Bignardi
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter College West Building Lobby
132 E. 68th Street
NY, NY 10065
Gallery entrance is on the south side of 68th St. between Lexington and Park Aves.
In concert with the exhibition C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction the Hunter College Art Galleries in collaboration with the Weisman Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota and Hirmer Publishers have produced the first retrospective monograph on the renowned artist, collector, and connoisseur C. C. Wang. To celebrate the launch of C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction the Hunter College Art Galleries have organized an afternoon of conversations hosted by the publication editors Hunter College Professor Wen-shing Chou and University of Minnesota Twin Cities Professor Daniel M. Greenberg with Arnold Chang, scholar, artist, and former student of C. C. Wang; Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang Associate Curator of Chinese Paintings at the MET; Elizabeth Hammer, Executive Director of the Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden; Lesley Ma, Ming Chu Hsu and Daniel Xu Associate Curator of Asian Art in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the MET; Margaret Liu Clinton, Hunter College MA Art History candidate; and Jordan Homstad, University of Minnesota undergraduate alumni.
Support for this publication is provided by the Wolf Kahn Foundation and Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.
Exhibition Tour
Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 6pm
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter College West Building
132 East 68th Street, NY, NY 10065
Join graduate student curators for a guided tour of C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction. This tour is free and open to the public. No registration is needed.
C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction was developed through a two-semester curatorial seminar at Hunter College led by Professor Wen-shing Chou with M.A. Art History students Thais Bignardi-Engstrom, Carolyn Bishop, Rawls Bolton, Jeremy Gloster, Sophie Kaufman, Emerald Lucas, Lindsey Poremba, and Mia Ye.
Exhibition Tour
March 25, 2023 at 3pm
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter College West Building
132 East 68th Street, NY, NY 10065
Join graduate student curators for a guided tour of C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction. This tour is free and open to the public. No registration is needed.
C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction was developed through a two-semester curatorial seminar at Hunter College led by Professor Wen-shing Chou with M.A. Art History students Thais Bignardi-Engstrom, Carolyn Bishop, Rawls Bolton, Jeremy Gloster, Sophie Kaufman, Emerald Lucas, Lindsey Poremba, and Mia Ye.
Tour 10:30–11:30am, followed by a coffee/tea reception
Join the Hunter College Art Galleries during Asia Week NY for a morning tour and reception of C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction. Led by exhibition co-curator Daniel M. Greenberg, this walkthrough will introduce viewers to the life and art of C.C. Wang (1907-2003). Born to a family of scholar-officials at the twilight of the Qing dynasty, Wang mastered the traditional ink and brush techniques in Republican Shanghai and immigrated to New York City in 1949. Although he is well known for his discerning connoisseurial eye and world class collection of classical Chinese art, Wang’s own artistic practice has long been overlooked. In this walkthrough, we will explore how Wang built upon both his deep knowledge of Chinese painting and the artistic climate in postwar New York to create distinctly cross-cultural works of modern American art.
Curated by Wen-shing Chou and Daniel M. Greenberg with Hans Hofmann Graduate Curatorial Fellow Margaret Liu Clinton.
C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction was developed through a two-semester curatorial seminar at Hunter College led by Professor Wen-shing Chou with M.A. Art History students Thais Bignardi-Engstrom, Carolyn Bishop, Rawls Bolton, Jeremy Gloster, Sophie Kaufman, Emerald Lucas, Lindsey Poremba, and Mia Ye.
C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction is made possible by the generous support of the James Howell Foundation, the Leubsdorf Fund, the Wolf Kahn Foundation and Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn, and the Renate, Hans, and Maria Hofmann Trust.
Detail of no title (Abstract Work with Blue and Green), 1998. Ink and color on paper, overall: 33 3⁄4 x 15 5⁄8 inches (85.7 x 39.7 cm). Collection of Pao Yung Chao. Photo: Stan Narten.
Opening Reception for C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction
Thursday, February 2, 2023, 7–9 pm
Hunter College Art Galleries
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065
Entrance between Lexington and Park Avenues
Curated by Wen-shing Chou and Daniel M. Greenberg with Hans Hofmann Graduate Curatorial Fellow Margaret Liu Clinton.
C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction was developed through a two-semester curatorial seminar at Hunter College led by Professor Wen-shing Chou with M.A. Art History students Thais Bignardi-Engstrom, Carolyn Bishop, Rawls Bolton, Jeremy Gloster, Sophie Kaufman, Emerald Lucas, Lindsey Poremba, and Mia Ye.
C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction is made possible by the generous support of the James Howell Foundation, the Leubsdorf Fund, the Wolf Kahn Foundation and Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn, and the Renate, Hans, and Maria Hofmann Trust.
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle. Photo Credit: Tiffany Smith
Sunday, April 3, 4–5 PM
Register here to view the live stream at Leubsdorf Gallery
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Leubsdorf Gallery will be open for visitors to The Black Index, 11am–4pm, and for Sound Bath attendees only, 4–5pm.
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 E 68th St New York
Enter from the south side of 68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues
This event will take place on Zoom during the last hour of The Black Index on view at the Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College. HCAG will also live-stream the sound bath in the Leubsdorf Gallery for those who would like to gather together to experience the sound bath in the gallery. Space is limited for the gallery’s live stream, so please register in advance.
KACH Studio: Sonic Retrieval will offer a sound bath that focuses on grieving in the midst of the pandemic in relation to the traveling exhibition The Black Index’s final journey to Hunter College. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle’s work on view in the exhibition, The Evanesced: The Untouchables, features 100 un-portraits of disappeared Black femmes created in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. She will be offering a ritual not only to close the exhibition but also to create a sonic space for processing grief. Hinkle will be using a Dark Water and Dusk Gong as well as crystal singing bowls, tuning forks, rattles, and various instruments to offer a virtual experience. Those who want to contemplate the impact of Black death historically and presently can participate via cultivating deep listening as a form of witnessing and inner retrieval.
About Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle (Olomidara Yaya)
Award-winning interdisciplinary visual artist and writer Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, trained Reiki Master and Sound Practitioner, offers unique sonic healing experiences in relation to art exhibitions and museum programming. Using scientific theories concerning the benefits of sound healing to enhance theta state, neuroplasticity, and heal trauma, Hinkle incorporates sound therapy into unique sound installations, group sound bath sessions, and 1:1 healing sessions for artists, arts administrators, and art lovers. Based upon the premise of retrieval that Hinkle has explored for the past ten years within her multi-disciplinary practice, Hinkle aims to provide shamanic journeying to help museum and gallery visitors to experience sonic transformation and healing that is not only activated within the visual realm but activates extrasensory perception to confront and examine the ghosts of history and our shared present individually and collectively. Hinkle is highly sought after to speak about her work at various universities and institutions nationally and internationally and has created a following via the brand of being a Ghost Lady, working with the ghosts of history and ideas that haunt her. Using these explorations in her visual art practice with much success, participants will be interested in how she approaches a new field of sonics within her practice and how it accentuates this next journey in her established career.
KACH Studio creates unique artwork and performances that chart the intersections of art and healing. KACH Studio features award-winning artworks, signature sound baths, and performances that focus on retrieval. KACH Studio seeks to provide Empowerment for SEEKERS to retrieve through sonics and art. KACH Studio is a BIPOC-artist-as-healer-led initiative established in 2012 that interrogates history and trauma to facilitate healing through visual restorative justice and sonics. KACH Studio creates unique handmade collages, fine art, and signature sound baths that interrogate our relationships to healing within the Historical Present and the ramifications of colonialism. Through the creation of visual restorative justice, the artwork acts as a testimony, and the sound/healing work is the aftercare of the testimony. Each participant, art collector, or client plays a powerful role in addressing the effect of history on us as individuals and within the collective. To own artwork or attend a performance, one is also taking action to heal their own relationship to our collective past. KACH Studio is interested in decolonization and healing from individual and collective trauma, and we work with people who range from being art collectors, students, museum-goers, gallery-goers, creatives, artists, and everyday civilians.
This program is funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Installation view of The Black Index at Hunter College Art Galleries’ Leubsdorf Gallery, 2022. Photo: Stan Narten.
Thursday, March 31, 2022 1–3 PM EST This event will be held on Zoom and include live captioning (CART). REGISTER HERE
Global Abolition and Visual Art: A conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Shellyne Rodriguez is organized in concert with the exhibitions The Black Index, curated by Bridget R. Cooks (on view at the Leubsdorf Gallery, Feb. 1–April 3, 2022) and No Tears: In Conversation with Horace Pippin (previously on view at The Artist Institute, Nov. 11–Dec. 18, 2021). Following the conversation Brittany Webb, Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, will join Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Shellyne Rodriguez for a moderated Q & A.
This program is funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
SPEAKER BIOS:
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, and teaches in Earth and Environmental Sciences, American Studies, and Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Author of the award-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press), her forthcoming books include Change Everything (Haymarket); Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation (Verso); and (co-edited with Paul Gilroy) Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke). The documentary Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore features her internationalist political work. She has co-founded many grassroots organizations including California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network. Gilmore has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Recent honors include co-recipient (with Angela Y. Davis and Mike Davis) of the 2020 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize.
Shellyne Rodriguez is an artist, educator, writer, and community organizer based in the Bronx. Her practice utilizes text, drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture to depict spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against erasure and subjugation.
Brittany Webb is the inaugural Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA). Webb’s recent exhibitions include the co-curated show Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale (November 2020–September 5, 2021). Webb is also organizing a major retrospective exhibition and catalogue of the work of the African American sculptor John Rhoden (1916-2001) and stewards a collection of nearly 300 sculptures by Rhoden, leading PAFA’s ongoing effort to place his artworks into the permanent collections of museums around the world. Prior to joining PAFA, Webb was a member of the curatorial staff of the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Dr. Webb holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California.
Images below from left to right:
Titus Kaphar. The Jerome Project (Asphalt and Chalk) XI, 2015. Chalk on asphalt paper. 48 ¼ x 36 13/16 inches. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Museum Purchase, Barbara Cooney Porter Fund. ©Titus Kaphar.
Horace Pippin. John Brown Going to His Hanging, 1942. Oil on canvas. 24 1/8 x 30 1/4 inches. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, John Lambert Fund, 1943.
Monday, March 28, 7-9 PM
Roosevelt House at Hunter College
47-49 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065
REGISTER HERE FOR IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE
This event is free, open to the public, and live captioning (CART) and ASL interpretation will be provided. This event will also be live-streamed on Zoom. RSVP HERE FOR ZOOM LINK
Please note: all in-person attendees must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination through CUNY’s Cleared4 access form online in advance of the event.
Extended hours for The Black Index
Monday, March 28, 5-7 PM
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 East 68th Street, New York, NY
Visitors to the gallery must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination and are highly encouraged to wear a mask.
Hunter College is pleased to announce that Bridget R. Cooks, Associate Professor of Art History and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and curator of The Black Index (on view at Hunter’s Leubsdorf Gallery, February 1–April 3, 2022), is the Spring 2022 Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curator. Please join us Monday, March 28th for a public lecture by Dr. Cooks. This event will take place in person at Roosevelt House and will also be live-streamed.
Bridget R. Cooks is Associate Professor of Art History and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on African American artists, Black visual culture, and museum criticism. Cooks has worked in museum education and has curated several exhibitions including, Grafton Tyler Brown: Exploring California (2018), Pasadena Museum of California Art, Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective at the California African American Museum (2019), CAAM, and the nationally touring exhibition The Black Index (2021–2022).
She is the author of the book Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011). Her writing can be found in dozens of art exhibition catalogues as well as academic publications such as the journals Afterall, Afterimage, American Studies, Aperture, and American Quarterly.
The Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Curatorial Workshops are designed to bring curators of international stature to the Hunter campus to work with students in the MA program in Art History and the MFA program in Studio Art for an extended period of time. Previous Goldberg Curators have included Ann Goldstein of the Art Institute of Chicago; Hamza Walker of LAXArt in Los Angeles; Fabrice Stroun, an independent curator based in Switzerland; Valerie Cassel Oliver of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; Omar Kholeif of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Pablo Helguera of the Museum of Modern Art; and Lynne Cooke of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C. The Foundation To-Life Curatorial Workshop program recognizes the curatorial interests and ambitions of Hunter students and the Hunter College Art Galleries’ longstanding commitment to exhibitions whose themes, theses, and checklists have been developed and honed by our students. Recent faculty-initiated, seminar-based exhibitions have included Life as Activity: David Lamelas (2021); Stephen Mueller: Orchidaceous; Acts of Art and Rebuttal in 1971; and Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (all 2018); and Framing Community: Magnum Photos, 1947–Present (2017).
This lecture is made possible by the generous support of The Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curators Series with additional event production funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Installation view of The Black Index at Hunter College Art Galleries’ Leubsdorf Gallery, 2022. Photo: Stan Narten. Alicia Henry. Analogous III, 2020. Acrylic, thread, yarn, and dyed leather, variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Saturday, March 26, 3–5pm
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 E 68th St New York
Enter from the south side of 68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues
Join curator Bridget R. Cooks as well as artists Alicia Henry and Dennis Delgado at Leubsdorf Gallery.
This event is free and open to the public. No registration is needed.
Please note all visitors must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
Detail from The Violent Tapes of 1975, 1975. Series of 10 black-and-white photographs on paper, 9 x 12 inches (22.86 x 30.48 cm) each.
Join artist David Lamelas in conversation with contributing authors of the publication Life as Activity: David Lamelas
Virtual Book Launch for Life as Activity: David Lamelas
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
12pm ET on Zoom
Register here
On occasion of the exhibition Life as Activity: David Lamelas, currently on view at the Hunter College Art Galleries' Leubsdorf Gallery, a publication has been produced that includes texts on the artist by Professor Harper Montgomery and students in Hunter’s graduate programs in Art History and Studio Art. Essays focus on twelve works by Lamelas and include previously unpublished materials from the artist’s papers. Co-published by the Hunter College Art Galleries and Hirmer Verlag, the book is distributed by the University of Chicago Press and available for purchase here.
Join us on Zoom to celebrate the book with conversations between David Lamelas and contributing authors of the publication.
About the Exhibition:
The Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present Life as Activity: David Lamelas, an exhibition marking the artist’s first solo show in New York in more than a decade. For over half a century, Lamelas (born 1946, Buenos Aires) has made work that pushes the boundaries of contemporary art by defying conventions of artistic media. Although he is globally recognized as a ground-breaking figure of conceptual art, his explorations with the spatial qualities of film and the signifiers of identity have not been adequately investigated. Life as Activity focuses on Lamelas’s experimentation with film and his examination of identity and narrative fiction in light of his ongoing insistence that his artistic practice has always, in one way or another, been grounded in his sense of himself as a sculptor.
The exhibition brings together sculpture, film, and photography made across many decades and locations to center this aspect of Lamelas’s artistic practice. These works include two key sculptural installations he made in Buenos Aires in 1966 and 1967, Situación de cuatro placas de aluminio (Four Changeable Plaques), a moveable configuration of aluminum sheets, and Límite de una proyección I (Limit of a Projection I), a spotlight in a dark room; a series of ten photographs shot in London that pose as film stills for a non-existent movie, The Violent Tapes of 1975; and two films, The Desert People, a pseudo-documentary about a road trip to a Native American reservation which was shot in Los Angeles in 1974 and The Invention of Dr. Morel, a film based on the Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares’s novel The Invention of Morel (1940), which was filmed in Potsdam, Germany in 2000. Both films will be screened on an ongoing basis at set times: at 11:30, 12:45, 2:15, and 3:45. Showcasing the ways in which Lamelas makes us aware of how the stories we tell ourselves are shaped by encounters with space and time, all of these works invite us to participate in scenarios in which container, contained, observer, and observed become blurred.
Both the book and the exhibition have been developed in close collaboration with David Lamelas, who worked with students via Zoom on both projects during the course of the pandemic, from the spring of 2020 through the fall of 2021.
Life as Activity: David Lamelas results from an Artist Seminar Initiative grant awarded by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), which advances scholarship and public engagement with art from Latin America. It was organized under the auspices of ISLAA’s Artist Seminar Initiative, an educational and curatorial program that fosters intimate exchanges between students and living Latin American and Latinx artists.
Additional support for Life as Activity: David Lamelas is made possible by Joan Lazarus, Gagosian Gallery, and the James Howell Foundation in support of the Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies, and by the galleries’ sustaining supporters the David Bershad Family Foundation, the Susan V. Bershad Charitable Fund, Inc., Carol and Arthur Goldberg, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, and the Leubsdorf Fund.
Installation view of Life as Activity: David Lamelas at Hunter College Art Galleries’ Leubsdorf Gallery, 2021. Photo: Stan Narten.
Exhibition Tour
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Tour time: 6 pm
Join the exhibition curators for a guided tour of Life as Activity: David Lamelas. This tour is free and open to the public. No registration is needed, but please bring proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
Installation view of Life as Activity: David Lamelas at Hunter College Art Galleries’ Leubsdorf Gallery, 2021. Photo: Stan Narten.
Exhibition Tour
Saturday, December 4, 2021
Tour times: 2 pm and 4 pm
Join the exhibition curators for a guided tour of Life as Activity: David Lamelas. This tour is free and open to the public. No registration is needed, but please bring proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
Curating and Conserving New Media Work
A discussion with Sara Tucker, Director of Information Technology at Dia Art Foundation and Tim Murray, Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
12–1:15 pm EST on ZOOM
This event is organized in concert with the exhibition Constance DeJong: A survey exhibition of the artist’s work (August 24–October 9, 2021), which includes the collaborative multimedia project Fantastic Prayers, created by DeJong, the artist Tony Oursler, and the composer Stephen Vitiello. In 1995, Fantastic Prayers was developed as an interactive website, becoming the first of Dia’s Artist Web Projects and in 2000, it was also realized as a CD-ROM. Using Fantastic Prayers as our entry point, the discussion will reflect on how CD-ROM became a popular medium for artists in the late 1990s/early 2000s and how conservators and curators are bringing this now obsolete medium back to life for means of research and exhibition.
This event is co-hosted by Sarah Watson, Chief Curator of Hunter College Art Galleries, and Sigourney Schultz, Lazarus Graduate Curatorial Fellow.
The programming for the Constance DeJong exhibition is made possible by a gift from the Legere Family Foundation in honor of daughter Elizabeth Legere (Hunter College MA 2017), and in appreciation of Hunter College distinguished lecturer Constance DeJong and Joachim Pissarro, Bershad Professor of Art History.
The Hunter College Art Galleries also extend our gratitude to the David Bershad Family Foundation, the Susan V. Bershad Charitable Fund, Inc., Carol and Arthur Goldberg, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Joan Lazarus, and the Leubsdorf Fund for their sustained support of the galleries’ programming.
Sara Tucker is the Director of Information Technology at Dia Art Foundation. She produced Dia’s Artists Web Project series from its inception in 1995 through 2015, and recently completed a conservation project to preserve access to twenty Flash-based projects.
Tim Murray is Director of the Cornell Council for the Arts, Curator of the Cornell Biennial and the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art in the Cornell Library, and Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Cornell University. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of Humanities New York, on the Executive Committee of HASTAC and Senior Fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory. His numerous books include Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Minnesota, 2008) and he is awaiting publication of two books, Technics Improvised: Activating Touch in Global Media Art (Minnesota) and, in Spanish, Medium Philosophicum: Thinking Art Electronically (Murcia, Spain). His many exhibitions include Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom (1999-2004), CTHEORY Multimedia (2000-2003), The Experimental Television Center: A History, Etc… with Sarah Watson and Sherry Miller Hocking (2015), Signal to Code: 50 Years of Media Art in the Goldsen Archive (2016), 2018 Cornell Biennial, “Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival,” 2020 Cornell Biennial, “Swarm: Ecologies, Digitalities, Socialities,” and, in preparation, 2022 Cornell Biennial, “Futurities, Uncertain.”
The Black Index
Publication Launch
Friday, June 18
3pm EST/noon PST
Join the Palo Alto Art Center and Hunter College Art Galleries for a virtual book launch celebrating The Black Index, co-published by the Hunter College Art Galleries and Hirmer Verlag, featuring the work of artists Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas.
The event featured a conversation with the publication editors, Bridget R. Cooks, curator of The Black Index and Sarah Watson, Chief Curator of the Hunter College Art Galleries with appearances by catalogue contributors Re’al Christian, CalvinJohn Smiley, Vivian Sming, and Ella Turenne. A discussion will follow focused on the Redaction font commissioned by Titus Kaphar and Reginald Dwayne Betts and featured in The Black Index with the designers who created it: Forest Young, Global Principal and Head of Design at Wolff Olins and Jeremy Mickel, Type Designer and owner of MCKL; moderated by Stephen Coles, Associate Curator at Letterform Archive in San Francisco.
This event was organized in concert with the presentation of The Black Index at the Palo Alto Art Center (May 1–August 14, 2021). For more information about the exhibition and tour schedule visit: https://www.theblackindex.art
The publication is available through Hirmer Verlag and University of Chicago Press:
The Black Index publication is made possible by the support of the Ford Foundation, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, and the Leubsdorf Fund at Hunter College.
Dennis Delgado, exhibiting artist in "The Black Index" in conversation with CalvinJohn Smiley, Assistant Professor at Hunter College
Thursday, January 21, 2021: 3:15–4:30pm Pacific Time (6:15-7:30pm Eastern Time)
Join artist, Dennis Delgado, and scholar, CalvinJohn Smiley for a discussion about Blackness, surveillance and Delgado's series "The Dark Database." This event is co-hosted with the University of California Irvine and is organized in conjunction with the touring exhibition The Black Index, curated by Bridget R. Cooks. The Black Index will be presented online at the University Art Galleries at University of California, Irvine — CAC Gallery from Jan 14, 2021 to Mar 20, 2021, and will travel to the Hunter College Art Galleries in the winter of 2022.
The artists featured in The Black Index—Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas—build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to colonialist images. Using drawing, performance, printmaking, sculpture, and digital technology to transform the recorded image, these artists question our reliance on photography as a privileged source for documentary objectivity and understanding. Their works offer an alternative practice—a Black index—that still serves as a finding aid for information about Black subjects, but also challenges viewers’ desire for classification.
For more information about The Black Index programming and exhibition tour visit: https://www.theblackindex.art/
About the Speakers:
Dennis Delgado was born in the South Bronx, and received an MFA from the City College of New York (CUNY). His work examines the ideologies of colonialism and their historical presence in the current moment. Whether working with video games, drone images, or looking at historical sites (like the Bronx Zoo), his practice reflects on the Eurocentric perspectives present in popular institutions and in American visual culture. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and at the Cooper Union. https://www.delgadostudio.net/
CalvinJohn Smiley, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department of Hunter College (CUNY). A critical sociologist and criminologist, his work focuses on issues related to race, inequality, and social justice. He has studied, extensively, mass incarceration and prisoner reentry, particularly for urban low-income inhabitants. Dr. Smiley has published in various academic peer-reviewed journals and book chapters on topics such as: race and law enforcement, prisoner reentry, popular culture and music, social media and virtual space, education, and critical animal studies. He is the co-editor of Prisoner Reentry in the 21st Century: Critical Perspectives of Coming Home (Routledge, 2020) with Keesha M. Middlemass. http://www.cjsmiley.com/
Bridget R. Cooks, Ph.D. is exhibition curator and Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies and the Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine.
Exhibition and tour organized by Sarah Watson, Chief Curator, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York in collaboration with the University Art Galleries at UC Irvine, Palo Alto Art Center, and Art Galleries at Black Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
Lead support for The Black Index is provided by The Ford Foundation with additional support by UCI Confronting Extremism Program, Getty Research Institute, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, Carol and Arthur Goldberg, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Leubsdorf Fund at Hunter College, Joan Lazarus Fellowship program at Hunter College, Loren and Mike Gordon, Pamela and David Hornik, University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Illuminations: The Chancellor’s Arts and Culture Initiative, UCI Humanities Center, Department of African American Studies, Department of Art History, The Reparations Project, and the UC Irvine Black Alumni Chapter. This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.
Constance DeJong: Virtual Book Launch
Monday, November 30th, 6pm
Zoom
The virtual book launch included a conversation between Constance DeJong and Rachel Valinsky, with guest appearances by Paul Ramírez Jonas, Natalie Wedeking, and Jim Fletcher.
Constance DeJong is an artist-designed publication that was produced on the occasion of the Constance DeJong exhibition and includes texts on DeJong's work by distinguished writers, artists, and editors, as well as a previously unpublished text by the artist.
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Exhibition postponed, tentatively rescheduled for September 2021
Contributions by: Christine Danford, Ellie Ga, James Hoff, Lucy Ives, Karen Kelly, Jennifer Krasinski, Tony Oursler, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Pierre Sondeijker, Mike Thomas, Matvei Yankelevich
Essays by: Sarah Watson, Chief Curator of the Hunter College Art Galleries, and Jocelyn Spaar, Assistant Curator of Constance DeJong exhibition
Interview by: Andrea Merkx, artist and Hunter alumna
Publication Design: Natalie Wedeking
Copyediting: Jenn Bratovich
The publication is available for $30 dollars, plus a $5 flat shipping fee and can be purchased
here
Constance DeJong is made possible by a gift from the Legere Family Foundation in honor of daughter Elizabeth Legere (Hunter College MA 2017), and in appreciation of Hunter College distinguished lecturer Constance DeJong and Joachim Pissarro, Bershad Professor of Art History.
Constance DeJong is a New York-based artist and writer who has exhibited and performed locally and internationally. Her first book, Modern Love, originally published by Standard Editions with Dorothea Tanning in 1977, was re-issued in March 2017 by Primary Information/Ugly Duckling Presse. She has permanent audio-text installations in Beacon, NY, London and Seattle. DeJong has twice collaborated with Tony Oursler on live performances; was a collaborator on Super Vision, A Builders Association production (2005); librettist for the opera, Satyagraha, composer Philip Glass. She produced and exhibited a series of re-engineered radios programmed with spoken word-foley tracks, written, performed, recorded and mixed by DeJong, 2016-18. NightWriters, a digital text-image project, was published on-line by Triple Canopy, March 2018; and, Bureau gallery exhibited NightWriters drawings, audio works and a performance, April-May 2018. The Renaissance Society, Chicago, exhibited her audio work and a performance, November 2018. She is an editor of the book, Tony Conrad Writings, 2019, Primary Information, publ. DeJong is represented by Bureau, NY.
Rachel Valinsky is a writer, editor, and curator based in New York. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, Art-Agenda, Artforum, Frieze, BOMB Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, and elsewhere. Translations have been published by Semiotext(e) and Éditions Lutanie, where she is a contributing editor. She was an art writer in residence at the Banff Centre in 2015 and an art critic in residence at CUE Art Foundation and Art21 Magazine in 2016. Rachel has curated exhibitions, performances, and public programs at The Kitchen, The Queens Museum, BAM, Judson Memorial Church, Emily Harvey Foundation, and Knockdown Center. She was 2018-2019 Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Queens Museum, 2017-2018 Curatorial Fellow at The Kitchen, 2017-2019 Friday Night Series Co-Curator at the Poetry Project with Mirene Arsanios, and 2016 Curator for the Segue Reading Series. She is also co-founder and Artistic Director of Wendy's Subway, a library, writing space, and independent publisher in Brooklyn, New York. Rachel holds a BA in Art History and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and is a doctoral student in Art History at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where her research centers on 1970s and ’80s performance in the Americas. She teaches Art History at Hunter College.
CANCELLED: An evening with Constance DeJong
Performances by the artist followed by a conversation with Brandon Joseph
April 23, 7pm
Hunter College MFA Flex Space
205 Hudson Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Constance DeJong, at the Leubsdorf Gallery. More information can be found here.
This event has been canceled and may be rescheduled.
Marie Losier: Screening and conversation with Constance DeJong
Thursday, March 26, 7pm
Hunter College MFA Flex Space
205 Hudson Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013
This event is organized with the Zabar Visiting Artist Program at Hunter College, and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Constance DeJong at the Leubsdorf Gallery.
More information about the exhibition can be found here.
GALLERY HOURS
Tuesday–Saturday, 12–6pm
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