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.