Hunter College / Times Square Gallery
450 West 41st Street, New York, NY 10036
December 14, 2011–January 14, 2012
Opening:
Wednesday, December 14th, 6–8pm
Gallery hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday–Saturday 1–6 pm, Wednesday 3–8 pm
Bowen Cain / Matteo Callegari / Oasa DuVerney / Ira Eduardovna / Jonathan Elliott / Jay Gaskill / John Alex Gonzalez / Mike Kenney / Summer McCorkle / Yoshiaki Mochizuki / Takako Oishi / Martin Roth / Emily Stoddart / Amanda Valdez / Tim Donald Webster
The thesis work of 15 students receiving graduate degrees from Hunter College’s MFA program will be presented as part of Hunter College’s Fall 2011 Graduate Thesis Exhibition at the Time Square Gallery. This exhibition will include work of graduate students in Combined Media, Painting, Photography and Sculpture. The work selected represents the culmination of each student’s unique experience in Hunter College’s dynamic and demanding MFA program. As in previous years, the 12,000-square-foot space will be custom-constructed for the purposes of the exhibition. This arrangement provides students ample space, allowing each the opportunity to showcase multiple pieces, or large installations from their individual thesis work—the manifestation of two or three years of research, experimentation, critical thinking and finely honed skills. To extend the viewing opportunities of the exhibition, Hunter College is offering a web-based gallery of imagery of students’ work. The student portfolio section can be accessed through the Hunter Art Department Homepage: www.hunter.cuny.edu/art
The exhibition will be on view from December 14, 2011–January 14th, 2012. A public opening reception will be held on Wednesday, December 14th, from 6–8 pm
The Hunter College Times Square Gallery, located at 450 West 41st Street, New York City, is free and open to the public.
About Hunter College’s MFA Program
Hunter’s ideal location in Manhattan offers students and faculty many sources of intellectual, cultural, and creative activity. In New York, as nowhere else, the student has access to the changing ideas and forms of contemporary art. This is crucial to the achievement of our educational goal: to develop professional artists capable of continued growth once they leave the relatively structured university environment.
The program is designed to offer broad training for artists in the development of critical and analytical visual thinking as it relates to their work. In this programmatic context all students are encouraged to develop their own art through constant peer contact in the studios, individual work with faculty tutors, critical seminars focusing on student work, and classes in the theory, criticism and history of art. In addition, many artists, curators, critics and historians are invited to meet with students.
For more information about the exhibition please contact:
Emily Stoddart
hunterthesisfall2011@gmail.com
646 250-4750 tel
