UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

All exhibitions are at the Picker Art Gallery, Dana Arts Center, unless otherwise noted.

 

 

May 12 through June 28, 2009 and

September 2 through December 20, 2009

Remember? Photographs Before Digitization

Remember? Photographs Before Digitization reminds contemporary viewers of the allure of original photographic prints produced by laborious processes in the darkroom. The exhibition of approximately 70 photographs offers an overview of art photography in Colgate University’s holdings. It includes daguerreotypes, albumen prints, silver gelatin prints, and experimental photographs from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, with an emphasis on the 1960s-80s. Canonical masters such as Eugène Atget, Berenice Abbott, Claude Cahun, Brett Weston, and Lee Friedlander are among the artists represented. The exhibition demonstrates how each photograph, by tracing light, embraces its roles both as a record of the visible world and of artistic expression.

 

May 12 through June 28, 2009 and

September 2 through October 11, 2009

Edward Curtis: Photogravures from The North American Indian

This exhibition of twenty photogravures from Colgate’s Special Collections Library demonstrates the range of tribes and geographical areas that Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) studied for The North American Indian, 20 volumes and portfolios of photographs and writings that he published between 1907 and 1930. Curtis hoped “to form a comprehensive and permanent record of all the important tribes of the United States and Alaska that still retain to a considerable degree their customs and habits.” His work has often been criticized, however, for romanticizing and re-staging the past.

 

June 29 through September 1, 2009

Gallery closed for renovations
 

August 31 through December 11, 2009

Flip Sides: Representations/ Abstractions from the 1970s -- Lawrence Hall

Bringing together lithographs by Sam Gilliam and William Wiley with photo offset lithographs by Joan Lyons, Scott Hyde, and others this installation explores tendencies in avant-garde printmaking in the early 1970s. While some artists manipulated photo-based prints to obliterate details and introduce abstract elements, others discovered representational qualities in the textures of paint, paper, and other materials. Both groups present a fresh, intensely personal experience of the world.

 

October 14 through November 20, 2009

Invasion 68: Prague - Photographs by Josef Koudelka -- Clifford Gallery, Little Hall

Organized by Aperture, New York, this exhibition presents Koudelka’s gripping photographs of the Soviet invasion into Prague in August 1968 that ended the democratic reforms of the Prague Spring. ”Those vivid black-and-white pictures are now considered classic examples of photojournalism, not only as documentation of an important event but because of his proximity to his subjects, which brings the viewer smack into the middle of the action.” (New York Times, 09/14/08)

 

October 14 through December 20, 2009

Yvgeny Khaldei: The Great Patriotic War

The Ukrainian-born Jewish photographer Khaldei is credited with many of the iconic images of World War II. The Soviet news agency TASS assigned him to cover the Soviet army in central Europe, the Potsdam conference, and the Nuremberg trials. This is a selection from the almost 100 photographs that Khaldei donated to Colgate students and faculty during his visit in 1995.

 

January 18 through May 7, 2010

Lee Brown Coye: Familiar Fantast -- Lawrence Hall

Hamilton resident Lee Brown Coye (1907-1981) is widely remembered as illustrator of horror and fantasy books. His interests and ambitions, however, had a much wider range. Colgate University is one of the major repositories of Coyes work and this installation wants to remind the Colgate community of this resource.

 

January 20 through March 14, 2010

Broadcast

Organized by Independent Curators International and the Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Broadcast explores the ways in which artists since the late 1960s have engaged with, critiqued, and inserted themselves into official channels of broadcast television and radio. By co-opting the sounds, images, and presentation strategies of our culture’s dominant forms of mass media, they reveal the mechanisms and power structures of broadcasting systems, and challenge their authority and influence. The exhibition spans four decades of work by an international group of artists.