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 Newly Released

June 15 - 30, 2007
Reception: Tuesday June 19, 6 - 8pm


School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Newly Released,” an exhibition featuring thesis projects by 25 students in the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department, including video installations and documentary and conceptual photographic work. Curated by faculty member and independent curator Marvin Heiferman.

Curator Marvin Heiferman comments on the 2007 class:

"The 25 graduates have been charged over the past two years with developing a personal vision, and (this being America, and given the commercial nature of the art world) product, too. Each work encompasses months of reflection, research, development and production, followed by critiques and test-marketing carried out among peers, instructors, master class teachers and thesis advisors. Taken together, these newly released works by a newly credentialed group of artists explore the diverse ways photographic imagery is being made, used, questioned and explored today."

The exhibition includes work by artists tackling a variety of original and provocative themes, including cultural identity, as Dina Kantor ambitiously attempts to document all the Jews in Finland; urban redevelopment in Alejandra Laviada’s elegant photographs of abandoned office spaces in Mexico City; family relationships in Ryan Pfluger’s grid of poignant photos of his father and himself; and the need to exert control in a world too full of information seen in Elizabeth White’s sprawling installation of found Internet images.

In addition to the presentation of conventional photographic prints, the exhibition also includes video installations by Barbara Bulletti, projections by Michelle Meier, illustrated books by Hannah Smith Allan and Erin Gleeson, and sculpture by Tiana Peterson.

The full list of artists included in the exhibition are: Hannah Smith Allen, Matthew Baum, Barbara Bulletti, Yu-Lan Chang, Julia Cybularz, Carlotta Deganello, Ian DeLaune, Joseph Farrell, Sara Fuller, Erin Gleeson, Dina Kantor, Miles Kerr, Ayako Koshikawa, Marlo Kovach, Seth Lambert, Alejandra Laviada, Cesar Chavez Lechowick, Lindsey McCracken, Michelle Meier, Kelly Neal, Tiana Peterson, Ryan Pfluger, Emmely Pierre-Louis, Andrea Tese and Elizabeth White.


 
 
Gallery Information
 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.

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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). 

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