2008 Spring Exhibitions

This spring CCS Bard presents a series of nine exhibitions at the CCS Galleries, curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies, including work by 44 internationally known contemporary artists. These exhibitions are the culmination of the students’ work for the master’s degree. Concurrently on view with these exhibitions in the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art is Second Thoughts, a response to Matthew Higgs’s Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection

Opening receptions
Series 1: Sunday, March 16, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Series 2: Sunday, April 13, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Series 3: Sunday, May 11, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Limited free seating is available on a chartered bus that leaves from New York City for each exhibition opening. The bus returns to New York City after the opening. Reservations must be made in advance by calling the Center at 845-758-7598.


Above (from left to right): Tacita Dean, Kodak, 2006, courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; Marcy Lucier, I Am Sitting in a Room (from Polaroid Image series), 1969, courtesy of the artist and Lennon Weinberg Gallery; Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (Loverboy), 1989, courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery and The Estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Superstudio, Life-Supersurface (still), 1972; Jen DeNike, Flag Girls , 2007, courtesy of Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York.

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Countdown

Urs Fischer, Jamie Isenstein, Kris Martin, Roman Signer, and Jordan Wolfson
Curated by Vincenzo de Bellis

Countdown brings together object-based artworks in which an “action,” either internal (such the degradation of the materials) or external (if activated by “other” sources), inevitably change the form of the works, causing their ineluctable vanishing.

Recasting Site

Robert de Saint Phalle, Roe Ethridge, Mary Lucier, and Robert Smithson
Curated by Terri C. Smith

Recasting Site, features artworks that transform ordinary objects, interiors and environments, recasting the familiar and discouraging rote patterns of viewing. The exhibition’s four artists work variously, attaching new meanings to everyday objects, places and ideas, often accentuating imperfections. Their strategies include giving special attention to the attributes of individual media (including its flaws) and encouraging viewers to access a discursive, imaginative space that bridges the artworks in the gallery and absent circumstances they trace.

Grounds for Progress

Gemma Pardo, Aura Rosenberg, and Lisa Sanditz
Curated by Lauren J. Wolk

Three artists working in different mediums focus on depictions of landscape as the surface, or ground on which is registered the complexity, ambiguity, and irrationality of the unfolding of history. A video artist, a photographer, and a painter locate images of industrial sites and landmarks that are historiographically instrumental, in a realm wherein elements of time are nonsynchronous and expanses of physical space are collapsed. The works invite us to reframe grand historical narratives and reconsider the empirical logic of globalization.

Another Time

Chen Chieh-jen, Tacita Dean, and Peter Hutton
Curated by Milena Hoegsberg

The three films in Another Time are poetic visions of disappearing technology and industries. By slowing down the viewer's experience of time, the films encourage reflection on the personal and collective loss connected to notions of linear history, progress, technological advancement and global economies.

(loverboy), sleep, shatter, handheld bird

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, Barry Le Va, and Charles Ray
Curated by Daniel Byers

Four works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, Barry Le Va, and Charles Ray are brought together based on a series of affective relationships, emphasizing a central concern of both the art on view and the exhibition’s organizing premise: the charged space of encounter between materials, objects, bodies, or experiences, and the new meanings that come from their meeting.

Under the Influence

John Baldessari, Jen DeNike, Nancy Holt, Tim Jackson, Joan Jonas, David Jones , Jill Magid, Rachel Mason, Michele O’Marah, and Robert Smithson
Curated by Anat Ebgi

In every relationship—be it lover, student, teacher, friend, colleague—there exists a tension, a psychological push-pull, a subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) tug-of-war between dominance and submission. Under the Influence is interested in what happens when this aspect of life enters the art making process.

Modernism: On and Off the Grid

Martin Beck, VALIE EXPORT, Dan Graham, Dorit Margreiter, and Superstudio
Curated by Niko Vicario

This exhibition brings together works by five artists and one architectural collective that repeat, revise, or reject a legacy of Modernist architecture and design, exploring form’s relationship to history, subjectivity, and social space.

Degrees North: Six Artists and the Icelandic Landscape

Birgir Andrésson, Douwe Jan Bakker, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Kristján Guðmundsson, Sigurður Guðmundsson, and Magnús Pálsson
Curated by Nicole Pollentier

Birgir Andrésson, Douwe Jan Bakker, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Kristján Guðmundsson, Sigurður Guðmundsson, and Magnús Pálsson utilize the Icelandic landscape, language, literary tradition, and culture as the source material for their conceptual artworks.

Act Out

Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Sturtevant, and Hannah Wilke
Curated by Tyler Emerson-Dorsch

Act Out presents video works by six artists – Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Sturtevant and Hannah Wilke – who use the body to attract and repel, to create a charged space between the virtual space they occupy and that of the viewer. These works comment on desire, gender, making art and performing identity. The exhibition divides between pioneering, first-generation video works and more recent works that react directly to and build on these earlier, now iconic performances and statements.

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