Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Phone: 845-758-7598
E-mail: [email protected]
Fax: 845-758-2442
http://www.bard.edu/ccs
Museum hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
Exhibitions and events are free and open to the public.
Spring Exhibitions 2006
The Center for Curatorial Studies presents eleven exhibitions this spring curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The exhibitions are the culmination of the students’ work for the master’s degree.
Limited free seating is available on a chartered bus that leaves from SoHo in 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. Bus transportation is provided through the generosity of Audrey Irmas.
March 12-26, 2006
SELLOUT
A selection of artist-made commodities that employ commercial strategies of sales, distribution, merchandising, and advertising.
Curator: William Heath
Art for our sake!
Recent work that reenacts moments of social and political protest in the United States.
Curator: Sarah Bachelier
Making the band
Video and other documents from performances by Black Leotard Front and My Barbarian that straddle the line between art and music.
Curator: Geir Haraldseth
Tales of Places
Autobiographical works exploring concepts of place and our intimate relationships with our surroundings.
Curator: Zeljka Himbele
April 9-23, 2006
Welcome to the limelight
Works by Jessica Craig-Martin, Instant Coffee, Christian Jankowski, David Kramer, Liisa Lounila, and Tony Matelli invite the viewer into spaces of entertainment and leisure.
Curator: Natalie Woyzbun
You don’t live here anymore
Works in which ideas of dwelling and building transform the site of art and its methods of construction.
Curator: Montserrat Albores Gleason
Uninvited
Video works that reveal uncomfortable social realities and challenge the viewer to consider the artists’ responsibility to the people they involve in the production of their art.
Curator: Kerryn Greenberg
In Other Words
Bilingual works that use collage and other visual devices to translate themselves into a foreign context.
Curator: Mariangela Méndez Prencke
May 7-21, 2006
Mediated worlds whose subjects find themselves caught between enlightenment and failure, reality and illusion.
Curator: Erica Hope Fisher
Draw a straight line and follow it
New works by seven artists respond to instruction-based art from the 1960s and 1970s.
Curator: Anna Gray
Hot Topic
Feminist strategies inform recent works by Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Nicole Eisenman, Wynne Greenwood, K8 Hardy, LTTR, Ulrike Müller, Ridykeulous, Emily Roysdon, A. L. Steiner, and Tracy the Plastics.
Curator: Amy Mackie
These exhibitions were made possible with support from the Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg Student Exhibition Fund, the Friends of the Center for Curatorial Studies, and the Center’s annual benefit for student scholarships and exhibitions. Additional support for the spring exhibitions has been provided by the Monique Beudert Fund.
For further information about the spring exhibitions or about the Center for Curatorial Studies, please contact:
Center for Curatorial Studies
Bard College
PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
Phone: 845-758-7598
E-mail: [email protected]
Fax: 845-758-2442
Website: http://www.bard.edu/ccs
