Current Events

Fawn Krieger: COMPANY
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 - Saturday, May 31, 2008
Invited to reconsider Claes Oldenburg’s The Store (1961), a shop in downtown New York furnished with an array of consumer goods the artist fashioned out of everyday materials to reference food, clothing and other consumable goods, Fawn Krieger proposed COMPANY (2007). Conceptually structured as a social and economic project, COMPANY is an installation and unfolding sculpture in Art in General’s storefront, street-level exhibition space that will operate as a store showcasing homemade renditions of recognizable items, with prices marked from two to two thousand dollars. Gallery visitors will have the opportunity to buy sculptural objects including ceramic Xanax; a foam mother tree sloth; a papier-mâché TV; a wooden computer; plaster enriched uranium; a concrete Baked Alaska; faux dinosaur eggs, ersatz glacier chunks, cardboard passports, knitted nervous systems, leather band-aids, and tin foil eye glasses. COMPANY sells company through its companionship objects as well as through discussions about commerce, production, influence value, and exchange, as it establishes a forum with which the intimacy of desire and possession inhabits public space. Fawn Krieger lives and works in New York City. Born in 1975, Krieger received a BFA from Parsons School of Design (1997) and an MFA from Bard College (2004). She has exhibited her work internationally and throughout the US, including The Moore Space in Miami, The Kitchen in NYC, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery/University of Nevada in Reno, The Queens Museum in NYC, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, MAP in Baltimore, Tilt Gallery in Portland, Nice & Fit Gallery in Berlin, and Neon>fdv in Milan. Next Spring her work will travel to the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, and will be featured in a solo exhibition at envoy gallery in NYC. Opening Nov.17th

Location:	79 Walker Street , New York
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Proteus Gowanus Play exhibit
Friday, September 14, 2007 - Sunday, September 14, 2008
Play The versatile meanings of 'Play', investigating its history and future as the bedrock of culture; its regenerative power as the creative basis of every discipline and as the spark that ignites the child's imagination; and its darker role in our entertainment-obsessed culture. The exhibit will include an array of play-related art, artifacts, objects, books and events. Proteus Gowanus will unfold over the course of the year generated by suggestions of visitors to the gallery, a growing number of PG Correspondents, and by the rich interdisciplinary resources of nine collaborating non-profit organizations. Proteus Gowanus is also pleased to announce: Two new permanent installations of an archival nature have joined The Museum of Matches, A Cold War Room in the space adjacent to Proteus Gowanus: The Reanimation Library www.reanimationlibrary.org, an independent library serving artists, writers and cultural archeologists; and Anonima, an archive of art, books and ephemera from a 1960's artist collaborative. The Play exhibit and programs will be co-curated by Maddy Rosenberg[Bard MFA Alumn] and PG Co-Founder/Director Sasha Chavchavadze.

Location:	543 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY
Phone:	718-243-1572
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IN THE FOURTH ROOM at Vox Populi
Friday, October 5, 2007 - Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Alexandra Newmark: In the Forest Since 2001, Alexandra's work has been solely made from Mohair yarn. The work is focused on narratives of interdependence, and a framework of self-containment. Her work reflects the conventional expectations of womanhood, caretaker, mother. Alexandra Newmark received her MFA in Sculpture from Bard College in 2001, and her BFA from Parsons in 1998. In 2005, she was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.

Location:	319 North 11th Street, 3rd Floor Philadelphia, PA
Phone:	000-000-0000
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Wrestling at MOMA
Saturday, December 1, 2007 - Friday, May 30, 2008
Bard MFA Alumni Jen DeNike's video "Wrestling" is currently on display at MOMA, NY as a part of the permanent collection.

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Maddy Rosenberg
Monday, March 3, 2008 - Saturday, January 31, 2009
Please see below for Bard MFA Alumni Maddy Rosenberg's news and upcoming and on-going exhibitions: * The Pacific Festival of the Book International Exhibition Victoria Arts Connection Gallery Victoria, Canada March 3rd - April 26th, 2008 * Your Documents Please The Museum of Arts & Crafts Itami, Japan April, 2008 Zaim Yokohama, Japan May, 2008 2B Gallery Budapest, Hungary November, 2008 Galeria Z Bratislava, Slovakia January, 2009 * ArtBound: Book Design Past and Present The Athenæum of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania June 16- August 31, 2008 Also, The Maddy Rosenberg Artists Book Collection, a Special Collection at Baylor University’s Crouch Library, is online now: http://www.baylor.edu/lib/finearts/index.php?id=47549

Location:	Various locations, see above
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2008 Whitney Biennial
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - Sunday, June 1, 2008
The curatorial team for the 2008 Whitnet Biennial has selecter 81 artists for the exhibition, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American ART. Since its founding in 1932, the Biennial has evolved into the Whitney's signature exhibition as well as the most important survey of the state of contemporary art in the United States today. The exhibition will occupy the entire Museum, with the exception of the fifth floor, which is devoted to the permanent collection. Among the participating artists in the 2008 Biennial are: Walead Beshty [Bard MFA faculty] Harry (Harriet) Dodge and Stanya Kahn [Bard MFA Alumnae] Rachel Harrison [Bard MFA faculty] Seth Price [Bard MFA faculty] Marina Rosenfeld [Bard MFA faculty] Cheyney Thompson [Bard MFA faculty]

Location:	945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York, NY
Phone:	212-570-3633
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*particle group* in Inside the Wave (San Diego/Tijuana)
Saturday, March 8, 2008 - Sunday, June 1, 2008
Inside the Wave: Six San Diego/Tijuana artists construct social art features individual artists and artist groups working within spheres of alternative cultures to produce thought-provoking works that bind material culture to everyday life. The artists—bulbo, Brian Dick, Adriene Jenik, *particle group*, Zlatan Vukosavljevic, and Allison Wiese—all produce art that engages ideas about how societies construct meaning through material production for human consumption. Physical interaction with the art object, either by the artist or the viewer, is the preferred tactic for conveying their personal explorations into social and political questions. Featuring presentations of states of contingency of objects, actions and ideas, their works follow a path towards reintegrated if not yet fully digested engagement with personal memory. The *particle group* is comprised of artists, researchers, and computer engineers led by Ricardo Dominguez [Bard MFA faculty] and Diane Ludin who are the Principal Investigators. Other members of the group are Nina Waisman, Interactive Installation Soundscape; Amy Sara Carroll, Critical Particle Engineer Marius Schebella, Program Developer; and Pierre Galaud, Cesaire José Carroll-Dominguez, Robert Twomey, and Caleb Waldorf, Assistant Researchers. The group combines digital technology, investigative research, and multimedia formats into works that forge a subversive relationship with the newest frontiers of technological science in an effort to undermine corporate assumptions of authority and power. particle group exhibited together for the first time in the Nomadic New York series, House of World Cultures, Berlin, 2007.

Location:	San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Phone:	000-000-0000
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DIRECTIONS-- AMY SILLMAN
Thursday, March 13, 2008 - Sunday, July 6, 2008
Third Person Singular New York-based painter Amy Sillman [Bard MFA faculty in painting] produces works that are intimate, psychological and full of humor and pathos. At the same time, they are remarkably analytical and intellectual investigations into the forms and qualities of painting as a medium. Combining calligraphic, gestural areas with large bands of color that often serve as outlines, Sillman resists prescribed categories within painting and allows her works to remain ambiguous. In her most recent large-scale paintings, the spaces become increasingly sculptural as she builds bold, overlapping sections while continuously rearranging them. Fascinated by the act of coupling, Sillman has recently been creating a body of work that begins by observing couples that she knows, translating her "findings" into a range of visual interpretations. This exhibition is co-organized by Hirshhorn curator Anne Ellegood and Ian Berry, curator, Tang Teaching Museum. On view at the Tang Museum July 19, 2008 through January 4, 2009.

Location:	The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
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New COMPANY line: Advertisement, Performance, Style and Authenticity, by K8 Hardy
Friday, March 14, 2008 - Saturday, May 31, 2008
COMPANY launches its third product line on Friday, March 14, 2008 from 6-8 PM in Art in General's Project Space. Artist K8 Hardy brings a production entitled Advertisement, Performance, Style and Authenticity. It includes an edition of handmade Performance Underwear, each accompanied by performances negotiated between shopper and artist. Displays and posters, also on sale, go along with the wearable merchandise. This new series of products is entirely funded by the sales from COMPANY’S previous two lines. COMPANY, created by artist Fawn Krieger, is a functioning everything shop, inspired by Claes Oldenburg’s The Store from 1961. The interior as well as the products and services it sells are designed and constructed by artists. K8 Hardy (1977) was born in Fort Worth, Texas and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA from Smith College, attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, and is currently finishing her MFA at the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College. Fawn Krieger (1975) lives and works in New York City. Krieger received a BFA from Parsons School of Design (1997) and an MFA from Bard College (2004).

Location:	79 Walker Street, between Broadway and LaFayette, NY, NY
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SPRAWL
Thursday, March 20, 2008 - Sunday, August 24, 2008
Jersey City Museum is pleased to announce that the following artists were selected by the panel of jurors for the museum's upcoming Arts Annual exhibition, SPRAWL: Mauro Altamura, Aileen Bassis, Jason Burch [Bard MFA Alumnus], Hector Canonge, Lisa Dahl, Michael Dal Cerro, Jessica Demcsak, Susan Evans Grove, Emily Helck, Gergory Maka, Megan Malloy, María Mijares, Debbie Reichard, Joseph Gerard Sabatino, Roger Sayre, Leslie Sheryll, Ana-María Vág, Kimberly Witham They will be joined by the following artists who were selected by the museum to participate in SPRAWL: Pat Brentano, Brendan Carroll, Paul Ching-Bor, Tim Daly, Andrew Demirjian, Dahlia Elsayed, Rebecca Feranec, Jonathan Glick, Patrick Grenier, Owen Kanzler, Robert Kogge, Michelle Loughlin, Valeri Larko, Richard Pasquarelli, Deborah Pohl, Ben Polsky, Nyugen Smith, Bryony Romer, Roger Tucker, Andrew Wilkinson, Bryan Zanisnik SPRAWL, is a multi-venue exhibition that addresses the issues and problems related to sprawl as we know it in our state. The effects on urban, suburban, rural and marginalized areas are all addressed by the works in this exhibition. Artists from all over New Jersey have been selected to participate. The jurors for this year's Art Annual were: Doug Ferrari, Director, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts Margaret Murphy, Artist and Independent Curator Carmen Ramos, Curator, Princeton Arts Council

Location:	350 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, NJ
Phone:	000-000-0000
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BUILDING DWELLING THINKING
Friday, April 11, 2008 - Saturday, May 24, 2008
Laura Bartlett Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition BUILDING DWELLING THINKING Artists in the exhibition include: Armando Andrade Tudela Becky Beasley Andrea Beeman Jason Burch [Bard MFA Alumnus] Cullinan + Richards Cyprien Gaillard Dan Graham Peter Harris Ken Montgomery Mike Ricketts Amikan Toren Stephen Willats Curated by John Slyce OPENING: THURSDAY APRIL 10TH, 6-8 PM

Location:	10 Northington Street, London ENGLAND
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Von Lintel Gallery Presents
Thursday, April 17, 2008 - Saturday, May 17, 2008
Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to present Megalopolis Shanghai, a selection of photographic works by H. & D. Zielske from their series of the same name. Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to present This is Karate, an exhibition of collaborative works by Marco Breuer [Bard MFA former faculty] and Arnold Helbling.

Location:	555 W 25th Street, New York, NY
Phone:	212-242-0599
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"239 years (divided by 12 artists)"
Friday, April 18, 2008 - Sunday, May 18, 2008
Featuring Marisa Baumgartner, Mariya Dimov, Donovan Entrekin, Lily Gottlieb-McHale [Susan's assistant summer'07 and friend of Bard MFA], Faye Kendall, Joyce Kim, Kai Pedersen, David Romberg, Laura Velez, Billy Dufala, John Greig, Lauren Comito. Location: Slought Foundation Reception: Friday, April 18, 2008 ; 6:30-8:30pm

Location:	4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone:	215-701-4627
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EXHIBITION @ Wade Wilson Art
Friday, April 25, 2008 - Saturday, May 24, 2008
Anne Appleby and Maddy Rosenberg [Bard MFA] will be exhibiting their work in Houston, TX.

Location:	Wade Wilson Art Gallery, Houston , TX
Phone:	713-521-2977
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Projections @ La Maison des artistes visuels francophones Inc.
Friday, April 25, 2008 - Thursday, June 12, 2008
Dominique Rey’s [Bard MFA] exploration of the female identity began in 2000 with the nudes depicted in Baigneuses, where she enacted the phases of femininity, from the nubile woman to the Mother image. Using femininity as a symbolic object, the exhibition Miroirs examined the game a woman plays when she prepares to be seen by another. What the mirror shows, it hides as well. In the series Selling Venus/Vénus au miroir, a venal reflection disguises an untouchable core. The new series, Projections, carries the work to a more symbolic and minimalist level. The works are diaphanous, the contrasts eliminated, the colours diluted. We enter into the pure amazement of absolute contemplation. Indeed, we are in the midst of femininity: air, water, earth. In the clouds. These works constitute a threshold to infinity and create an opening for the spectator’s imagination.

Location:	219, boulevard Provencher, Saint-Boniface, MB
Phone:	000-000-0000
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Marina Berio's solo show at Michael Steinberg Gallery
Thursday, May 1, 2008 - Saturday, May 31, 2008
Marina Berio [Bard MFA]will be exhibiting her work at Michael Steinberg Gallery during the month of May.

Location:	526 W 26th Street, 2nd Floor, New York NY
Phone:	000-000-0000
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Penelope Umbrico in the 1st NY photo festival
Monday, May 5, 2008 - Sunday, May 18, 2008
Penelope Umbrico [Bard MFA Photography Chair] will be exhibiting her work along with other artists in the first ever NY photo festival

Location:	St. Anne's Warehouse, New York, NY
Phone:	000-000-0000
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PETER HUTTON @ MOMA
Monday, May 5, 2008 - Monday, May 26, 2008
Peter Hutton May 5–26, 2008 Peter Hutton [Former MFA faculty] (b. 1944, Detroit) is one of cinema's most ardent and poetic portraitists of city and landscape. A former merchant seaman, he has spent nearly forty years voyaging around the world, often by cargo ship, to create sublimely meditative, luminously photographed, and intimately diaristic studies of place, from the Yangtze River to the Polish industrial city of Lodz, and from northern Iceland to a ship graveyard on the Bangladeshi shore. This comprehensive retrospective of eighteen films reveals an artist dedicated to reawakening a more contemplative and spontaneous way of observing and envisioning the world. Whether seeking remembrance of a city's fading past or reflecting on nature's fugitive atmospheric effects, Hutton sculpts with time; each film unfolds in silent reverie, with a series of extended single shots taken from a fixed position, harking back to cinema's origins and to traditions of painting and still photography. Among the works featured are the two magnificent series that Hutton began in the 1970s—one an impressionistic sketchbook of New York, and the other an exploration of the Hudson River Valley that transcribes and exalts landscape in the manner of Thomas Cole and the nineteenth-century Luminist painters. "Like the haiku of Bashô," the scholar Tom Gunning observes, "these seemingly simple films offer lessons in the art of seeing and fashioning images that make you wonder how anyone could produce something simultaneously so humble and so astounding." The exhibition opens on May 5 with Hutton in conversation with writer Luc Sante. All films are from the U.S. and directed by Hutton.

Location:	MOMA, New York, NY
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ESCANDALO/ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS/DEITCH PROJECTS
Saturday, May 10, 2008 - Saturday, August 16, 2008
This Saturday, Desi Santiago's [Bard MFA] music project with Viva Ruiz, ESCANDALO, will debut and set off the demolition disco at the AVAF exhibition, in addition to performances by Kenny Scharf, Rick Castro, Color Wheel and Escandalo.

Location:	4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City NY
Phone:	000-000-0000
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Erica Svec at Larissa Goldston Gallery
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - Saturday, June 21, 2008
Larissa Goldston Gallery is pleased to present Same Enemy Rainbow, the gallery's second solo exhibition of paintings by Erica Svec [Bard MFA]. There will be an opening reception for the artist on Thursday, May 15 from 6 to 8pm.

Location:	530 West 25th Street, 3rd floor, New York NY
Phone:	000-000-0000
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Aleph of the Ingress
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
A new performance-installation piece by Bethany Wright [Bard MFA] (in collaboration with composer, Micah Silver)through the Unwin-Dunraven Literary Ecclesia.

Location:	the Mizpah Church in Portland
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