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| | Thanks... but it's actually on purpose
February 26 - March 13, 2010
Reception: Tuesday, March 2, 6-8pmSchool of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Thanks...but it’s
actually on purpose,” a thesis exhibition by students in the MFA Fine Arts
Department. The exhibition is curated by Augusto Arbizo, an artist, curator and
director of Eleven Rivington gallery.
The exhibition attempts to translate each of the 16
artists’ studio practices into a single installation about shared conditions.
Site-specific works by Yun-Woo Choi, Lorena Duran, Kari Britta Lorenson, Vered
Sivan and Teresa Henriques occupy the floors, corners, entrances and hallways
of the gallery. Jay Anderson and Maria Jose Duran Steinman subvert notions of
scale, while Susan Begy, Kate Davis Caldwell, Laurel Lueders and Leonora Loeb
explore the idea of manipulated perception. Matt Craven and Chris Deriso push
their abstractions towards architecture and opticality, and elements of popular
culture permeate the works of Nathan Manuel, Bryn K. McConnell and Joey Miri.
“Order, beauty and poetry are courted, and chaos and
confusion are tempted, all towards a shared purpose,” explains Arbizo. “The
exhibition’s title wrestles with the construction of concepts and artworks, and
struggles with ideas of sincerity and irony, purpose and accident, concept and
object - notions that are not always mutually exclusive, balanced or fixed.”
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| | Visual Arts Gallery
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
New York,
NY 10001
212.592.2145
The Visual Arts Gallery is SVA's premier exhibition facility. Located in Chelsea on the 15th floor of the landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building, it comprises four state of the art galleries and a large terrace with a commanding view of Lower Manhattan and the Hudson River. Staffed by six full-time professionals, Visual Arts Gallery offers select students the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work in the same environment as some of the country's leading artists--a number of whom have exhibited there as well.
Since the Visual Arts Gallery moved from 137 Wooster Street in Soho to its present location in 2004, it has exhibited works by renowned SVA alumni such as Renee Cox, Inka Essenhigh, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Lazzarini, Sol Lewitt, Vera Lutter, Elizabeth Peyton, Alexis Rockman, Collier Schorr, Lorna Simpson and Sara Sze, Works by Richard Avedon, Milton Glaser, Anish Kapoor, Stefan Sagmeister, Sebastiao Salgado have also been exhibited at the Visual Arts Gallery.
SVA students of every discipline derive great educational benefit from being able to study the work of celebrated artists, hear them speak at lectures, or even get the chance to meet them in person -- all right here at the College.
The Visual Arts Gallery is open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and is closed Sunday and federal holidays*. The gallery is accessible by wheelchair. For more information, or to purchase student's work (the gallery takes no commission), please call 212.592.2145.
*Summer Hours: The gallery will be closed for the
Independence Day holiday weekend from Friday, July 2, 1pm through
Monday, July 5. June 4th
through August 20th, 2010, the gallery will be closing one hour earlier
on Fridays (5pm instead of 6pm).
For press inquiries, please call the Office of Communication at 212.592.2010 or email proffice@sva.edu
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