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July 6 - August 14
Reception: Tuesday, July 6, 6-8pm
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Camera Work,” an exhibition of film and photography by current students exploring portraiture, social commentary and organic abstraction. The exhibition is urated by Richard Brooks, assistant director of student galleries.
For her photographic portrait series I am People, Giselle Behrens invites friends, family and strangers to pose for portraits with their eyes closed, revealing rarely seen facial expressions. The artist’s direct, documentary style highlights her subjects’ states of mind. Behrens is a student in the MPS Digital Photography Department.
In Mark Kendall’s documentary film The Time Machine, a watchmaker from Honduras quietly muses on the nature of time amidst the din of Grand Central Terminal. Inspired by the work of filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, The Time Machine is a human story about the struggle to live in the moment in one of the world’s busiest cities. Kendall is a student in the MFA Social Documentary Film Department.
Olivia Locher’s photographic series Clotheslines documents the indentation lines left on the artist’s body from bras after a full day of wearing them. The artist then photographs the burning of her bras to finalize the process. Locher is a student in the BFA Photography Department.
The photographs in Stacy Swiderski’s series Skin explore the surfaces of various types of skin, while examining the relationships that exist among them. Including images of plants, animals, bark and flesh, her photographs evoke themes of evolution and dependency. Swiderski is a student in the MPS Digital Photography Department.
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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: June 4th
through August 27th, 2010, the gallery will be closing one hour earlier
on Fridays (5pm instead of 6pm). The gallery will be closed for the Labor Day holiday weekend from Friday, September 3, 1pm through
Monday, September 6.
For press inquiries, please call the Office of Communication at 212.592.2010 or email proffice@sva.edu
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