Hunter MFASO

ABRAHAM CRUZVILLEGAS — INEQUALITY REEXAMINED — Scavenging and Opening

Matthew Newton — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:00:28 +0000

Inequality Reexamined, a unique installation by Abraham Cruzvillegas is now open for public viewing at the street-facing windows of the Leubsdorf Gallery of Hunter College at Lexington Ave and E 68th Street in Manhattan.

Due to the instruction-based, NYC-specific installation, members of the ACE student curatorial collective searched around the city for the objects designated by Cruzvillegas. Below are documentary images of the installation and multi-borough scavenger hunt for the materials.

FINAL INSTALLATION

Window text of the installation

Full installation view

"Choice, Welfare & Measurement"

"On Ethics & Economics" detail

Click here to see more images of the sculpture and installation.

SEARCH & SCAVENGE

Riding the skateboard to the installation

A badass sk8er in Bushwick, Brooklyn, before donating his board

Trash heaps (material resources) in Astoria, Queens

Street culture devotional object in Astoria, Queens

Click here to see more images of the search and scavenging.

OPENING RECEPTION

On June 25th, Cruzvillegas’ Inequality Reexamined. Summer 2010 opened to the public. The opening featured helado coco loco from a Mexican street vendor Tony, summer heat, informality, equality, artists, curators, researchers, janitors, parents and other relatives, babies and teens, sympathizers, and plenty of honorable guests. The evening continued into beer-drinking and further festivities. It was fun.

Crowds gather for the sculpture and the helado.

Karen (artist) and Esther (artist) hanging loose

Bill (artist) and Keith (Bloomfield College) discuss the sculpture

Valentina (ACE member) and her mom being served helado

Julie (artist), Nina, and Claudia (artist) in front of the windows

Click here to see more images from the opening reception.

INEQUALITY REEXAMINED: SCULPTURE BY ABRAHAM CRUZVILLEGAS

Matthew Newton — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:35:42 +0000

INEQUALITY REEXAMINED. SCULPTURE BY ABRAHAM CRUZVILLEGAS ACE Curatorial Collective, Hunter College Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery South-West Corner 68th St. and Lexington Ave. One view June 25, 2010 – September 4, 2010 24/7

“They have skate boards as a base.

None of the wooden pieces is attached, screwed or glued, they’re just in equilibrium.

Please find skate boards randomly, they must be ordinary things;

then find the potato, ginger and/or chayote randomly as well.”

The ACE curatorial collective of Hunter College presents Inequality Reexamined. Summer 2010, an exhibition of sculptures by the Mexico City-based artist Abraham Cruzvillegas. The project was conceived and is being created specifically for the street-facing windows of the Leubsdorf Gallery and the hot New York summer.

The sculptures in the window vitrine visualize and embrace the process of perishing. With them, Cruzvillegas explores the issues of transformation, self-construction, and the unfinished, open-ended nature of artwork and material objects. Complicating the viewers’ expectations, the sculptures will open different meanings of perishing and decay with an unusual, life-affirming, metamorphosis. Day one will differ from day two, which will differ from day sixty, and by the end of August the viewers will encounter a changed object.

The sculptures, composed of materials found randomly in different boroughs of New York City, absorb and express the rhythm of the street and people’s quotidian ways. By providing a set of simple instructions for assembling his work, Cruzvillegas emphasizes its constructed nature and dissolves its boundaries into the processes of scavenging, street-walking, and errand-running. Sticks, potatoes, skateboards, summer, heat, the virtuosity of equilibrium, and the intrigue of metamorphosis all reside in this project.

Abraham Cruzvillegas was born in Mexico City in 1968. He studied pedagogy at UNAM and participated in Gabriel Orozco’s workshop in 1987 – 1991. Since 1987, Cruzvillegas has exhibited internationally in such shows as the 25th Sao Paulo Biennale in 2002, 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, and Cali Biennale in Colombia in 2008. Since the 1990s, he has tutored, taught, and participated in conferences and workshops. In 2009, he held residency at the Wattis Institute of California College for the Arts in San Francisco. He is a recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, such as 2010 – 2011 DAAD in Berlin. His recent work includes autoconstrucción: The Film, which he presented at the Red Cat Arts Center in Los Angeles in 2009 and Kurimanzutto gallery in May, 2010, as a multi-media collaborative performance. Cruzvillegas is represented by the Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City.

For more information, please contact ACE: apantuye@hunter.cuny.edu

VIDEO FEEDBACK, May 1st, 7-9 PM

Matthew Newton — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:35:58 +0000

Video Feedback, May 1st, 7-9 PM, Times Square Gallery

The ACE student curatorial collective of Hunter College presents Video Feedback, a night of soundtracks created live to experimental videos in the Hunter College/Times Square Gallery. Musical groups and sound artists will perform live improvisational scores to videos screened in the gallery space with the audience present. Videos will be shown in succession in different areas of the gallery creating a migration of light, sound, and audience. The event highlights local experimental video and music practice brought together with meaningful overlap. Refreshments will be served.

Videos by Rosa Barba, Anna Barham, Kit Fitzgerald, Micah Stansell and Youtube DJ.

Live sound performances by David Bohl, Michael Capio, Peter Gordon and White Suns.

This event will take place at the Hunter College/Times Square Gallery located at 450 West 41st Street between 9th and 10th Avenue on Saturday, May 1, from 7-9pm

Hunter Open Studios

Admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:29:29 +0000

Announcing our upcoming Open Studios:

Friday April 23, 6-10PM
Saturday April 24, 2-6PM
450 W 41st St. New York, NY 10036
Take the A, C, E trains to Port Authority or 1, 2, 3, N, R to Times Square

Hunter MFA’s Spring Open Studios and Silent Auction. Tour studios and bid at the chance to own the work of Hunter’s emerging artists. Come see the MA curated exhibition of MFA works on the fourth floor. Two Nights of fresh art, artists, socializing, and surprises! Come out and see what makes Hunter MFA’s programs one of the most diverse and exciting New York art programs.

Big thanks to Culture Pundits who are helping with our web advertising for this event!

Matthew’s Show List – 3/20/10

Matthew Newton — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:19:21 +0000

'The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis’, David Zwirner Gallery

Upper East Side

Marta Minujín: MINUCODEs, March 2 – April 30, 2010, Americas Society, 680 Park Ave on 68th St

“Collecting Biennials”, through Nov. 28 at the Whitney Museum of American Art

MILTON AVERY: INDUSTRIAL REVELATIONS, FEBRUARY 18–MAY 1, KNOEDLER & COMPANY, 19 EAST 70TH STREET

Midtown

Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 E. 52nd St., SOLACE, THURSDAY FEB 04 – SATURDAY MAY 15

“Smoke+Mirrors/Shadows+Fog”, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, 450 West 41st St, Feb 18th – April 17th

Antony Gormley, “Event Horizons”, public installation around Madison Square Park and the Flatiron district

Robert Ryman: ‘Large-Small, Thick-Thin, Light Reflecting, Light Absorbing’, Pace Wildenstein, 32 E 57th, through March 27th

Chelsea

JAMIE ISENSTEIN, Andrew Kreps, 525 West 22nd Street, Through March 20

Jacco Olivier, Feb 19 – Apr 3, 2010, Marianne Boesky, 509 West 24th Street

‘The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis’, David Zwirner Gallery, 519 West 19th Street, Through April 17

Luis Camnitzer, “Memorial”, Alexander Gray Associates, 508 West 26 Street #215, March 17 – April 24, 2010

Charles W. Hutson, ‘A Survey’, Edward Thorp Gallery, 210 11th Avenue, at 25th Street, Through March 27

WILLIAM BAILEY, Betty Cuningham, 541 West 25th Street, Through March 27

Self-Fulfulling Prophecies, Leo Koenig, Inc. 545 W 23rd, March 5 – April 10, 2010

“Bank of Bikers”, ZieherSmith Inc., 516 W 20th, Feb 25th – Mar 20th

Joan Jonas, Yvon Lambert, 550 W 21st, Feb 27 – April 10

Yun-Fei, “Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts”, James Cohen Gallery, 533 W 26th, February 19 – March 27

Soho/Greenwich

Swiss Institue: Tobias Madison, Carissa Rodriguez, and Andro Wekua, 495 Broadway / 3rd Floor, Mar 6 – Apr 24

‘THE BRUCENNIAL 2010: MISEDUCATION,’ through April 12, 350 West Broadway, between Broome and Grand

LES

Jessica Jackson Hutchins, LAUREL GITLEN (SMALL A PROJECTS), 261 Broome Street, February 21–March 28

In Print, e-flux / reading room, 41 Essex Street, March 16 – May 15, 2010

MUSEUM 52, 4 East 2nd Street: Benjamin Degen, ends April 2

NEW MUSEUM: ‘SKIN FRUIT: SELECTIONS FROM THE DAKIS JOANNOUS COLLECTION,’ through June 6

North Brooklyn

JIM TOROK, Portraits and Clowns, Pierogi, 177 N 9th St

South Brooklyn

“Kiki Smith: Sojourn” continues through Sept. 12 at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park

LIC

NOGUCHI MUSEUM: ‘NOGUCHI REINSTALLED,’ through Oct. 24, 9-01 33rd Road, at Vernon Boulevard

Out of Town

Dia: Beacon, Agnes Martin paintings 1957-60 and 1999-2002, ongoing

Philadelphia, Notations/Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni, November 21, 2009 – April 4, 2010

Open Studios Advertising Vote Spring 2010

Admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:58:29 +0000

Submissions are now closed and final voting begins on the Open Studios advertising image. Open Studios advertising represents Hunter College’s MFA program to the rest of the art world, so please choose an image that you feel best reflects the commitment you, the students, have to your practice as artists. The top three images chosen from the online poll will go into a a run-off vote which will be decided by the student body, in person, at the MFASO meeting on March 17th. The image chosen at the meeting will then be used throughout our advertising campaign. Voting will close on March 16th at 12AM (midnight).

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

Hunter’s Quarry: Chris Knox

joshuajohnson — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:04:45 +0000

Chris Knox is a New Zealand independent artist who is probably better known by his association with the Tall Dwarves, a lo-fi DIY band. Knox’s solo music continues with the lo-fi production. His songs are often affecting and intelligent ruminations on mortality, sex, and society, produced with peculiar textures, a lyrical wit, and sincerity rarely expressed in contemporary music. His work has had a great influence in the American indie scene– in particular Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, and the Elephant Six Collective cite him as a major influence. In fact, Knox recently suffered a stroke and in a rare appearance, Jeff Magnum of Nuetral Milk Hotel, came out from his self-imposed retirement to contribute a track to the album.

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Help support Chris Knox’s recovery and purchase Stroke!

Matthew’s Show List – 2/27/10

Matthew Newton — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:39:09 +0000

Benjamin Degen at Museum 52

Upper East Side

Marta Minujín: MINUCODEs, March 2 – April 30, 2010, Americas Society, 680 Park Ave on 68th St

2010 Whitney Biennial, through May 30, Whitney Museum

“Collecting Biennials”, through Nov. 28 at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Pablo Bronstein, THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, October 6–April 18

“The Drawings of Bronzino,” the Met, through Apr 18

Midtown

Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 E. 52nd St., SOLACE, THURSDAY FEB 04 – SATURDAY MAY 15

“Smoke+Mirrors/Shadows+Fog”, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, 450 West 41st St, Feb 18th – April 17th

MoMA, “William Kentridge: Five Themes” continues through May 17

MoMA, Projects 92: Yin Xiuzhen, February 24–May 24, 2010, Projects Gallery, second floor

MoMA, Ernesto Neto: Navedenga, January 22–April 5, 2010, Fourth floor

Chelsea

Charles W. Hutson, ‘A Survey’, Edward Thorp Gallery, 210 11th Avenue, at 25th Street, Through March 27

WILLIAM BAILEY, Betty Cuningham, 541 West 25th Street, Through March 27

Self-Fulfulling Prophecies, Leo Koenig, Inc. 545 W 23rd, March 5 – April 10, 2010

SUPERFLEX, Flooded McDonald’s, January 22 to March 20, 2010, Peter Blum Chelsea, 526 West 29th

“Bank of Bikers”, ZieherSmith Inc., 516 W 20th, Feb 25th – Mar 20th

INDEPENDENT March 4: 4-9 March 5 & 6: 11-8 March 7: 12-4, (for X Initiative location, 548 W 22nd)

Nari Ward, LIVESupport, at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, 540 W 26th St, 25 February – 17 April, 2010

Joan Jonas, Yvon Lambert, 550 W 21st, Feb 27 – April 10

\ (LEAN) (with Nari Ward), Nicole Klagsbrun, 526 W 26th St. No. 213, MARCH 12—APRIL 24, 2010

“THE VISIBLE VAGINA”, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART (24 West 57th Street) and DAVID NOLAN GALLERY (527 West 29th Street), January 28 – March 20, 2010

Yun-Fei, “Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts”, James Cohen Gallery, 533 W 26th, February 19 – March 27

Soho/Greenwich

ESOPUS SPACE, 64 WEST THIRD STREET, #210, “The Assembled Picture Library of New York City” with Jason Polan and Robin Cameron, February 16 – March 18, 2010, Closing Reception: Thursday, March 18, 6-8pm

Anti-Prow, a project by PROW, the collaborative duo Peter Rostovsky and Olav Westphalen, art in general, 79 walker street, through March 10

Tobias Madison, Hydrate + Perform, Yes I Can! The Movie: Preview, March 8 – April 24, 2010, Opening Reception: Saturday, March 6, 2010, 6 – 8 PM, Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway 3rd Floor

LES

MUSEUM 52, 4 East 2nd Street: Benjamin Degen, ends April 2

South Brooklyn

“Kiki Smith: Sojourn” continues through Sept. 12 at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park

LIC

Flux Factory, Housebroken, 39-31 29th Street, LIC, NY 11101, on view every Saturday and Sunday from 12 – 6 pm until March 21st

NOGUCHI MUSEUM: ‘NOGUCHI REINSTALLED,’ through Oct. 24, 9-01 33rd Road, at Vernon Boulevard

Queens

Daniel Bozhkov: Republik of Perpetual Reconstruction and Rebuild” and “Duke Riley: Those About to Die Salute You”, through March 13, Queens Museum of Art, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

Happy viewing. - Matthew, matthewstudio.com

Open Call for Open Studios Advertising Spring 2010

Admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:57:39 +0000

Call for submissions closes March 9th at 12 Midnight!

We are opening up the call for Open Studios advertising early this semester, so that everyone will have the opportunity to contribute to the process and fully vet the final image. We will first offer an opportunity for the submission of images, which will happen online. Next, there will be an online vote. From that vote the top three images will go into a run-off vote that will then be decided in person by the student body at the next MFASO meeting. The image chosen in that meeting will be used throughout our ad campaign. If you have any questions about submitting or the process, feel free to mail us mfa.hunter@gmail.com

Open Studios advertising represents Hunter College’s MFA program to the rest of the art world, so please produce submissions that you feel best reflects the commitment you, the students, have to your practice as artists. As many of you know, this year we are largely focused on electronic advertising, but we will also be printing a limited number of post cards. To submit simply follow the requirements below and append your image to a comment on this post.

Requirements: You must be a current Hunter MFA student. You must also have paid your MFASO dues. You may submit as many images as you like, but you must submit using your real name and email. Please submit images only– unless text is vital to your concept– event information will be added after the image is chosen. No explicit nudity or language (we have to keep things to our advertiser’s standards). For web submission please use JPG format at 72 DPI and no larger than 600 pixels in any direction . All final images submitted must be able to accommodate printing. Printing requirements are:

THE FOLLOWING ARE PRINTER REQUIREMENTS DO NOT UPLOAD AN IMAGE OF THIS SIZE TO THE WEBSITE (SEE REQUIREMENTS ABOVE)

FILE TYPE: .TIF, .TIFF, .EPS, .AI, .JPG, .PNG & .PDF.
DPI : 300 – 350
COLOR: CMYK is preferable, although i think i have sent RGB files
before to the printer without a noticeable difference
SIZE: 4.1″ x 6.1″

Call for submissions closes March 9th at 12 Midnight!

After Submissions close all submissions will be posted online and voted on by students. Online Voting will close on March 16th at Midnight. The top three images with the most votes will go into a run-off vote that will be decided at the next MFASO meeting on March 17th. The image chosen at the meeting will be used throughout our advertising campaign.

Matthew’s Weekly Show List – 02/19/10

Matthew Newton — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:25:40 +0000

Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal - Issue #10 at White Columns

Upper East Side

JEWISH MUSEUM: ‘ALIAS MAN RAY: THE ART OF REINVENTION,’ through March 14, 1109 Fifth Ave, at 92nd St

Pablo Bronstein, THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, October 6–April 18

“The Drawings of Bronzino,” the Met, through Apr 18

‘PAINTINGS OF FéLIX VALLOTTON’, Michael Werner, 4 East 77th Street, Through April 10

Midtown

Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 E. 52nd St., SOLACE, THURSDAY FEB 04 – SATURDAY MAY 15

“Smoke+Mirrors/Shadows+Fog”, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, 450 West 41st St, Feb 18th – April 17th

MoMA, Ernesto Neto: Navedenga, January 22–April 5, 2010, Fourth floor

Chelsea

‘ECSTATIC PEACE POETRY JOURNAL, ISSUE #10’, White Columns, 320 West 13th Street, Through Feb. 27

Wolfgang Tillmans, ANDREA ROSEN GALLERY, 525 West 24th Street, January 30–March 13

Out of the Woods, Leslie Tonkonow Projects, 353 W. 22nd St, through March 6th

INDEPENDENT March 4: 4-9 March 5 & 6: 11-8 March 7: 12-4, (for X Initiative location, 548 W 22nd)

Nari Ward, LIVESupport, at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, 540 W 26th St, 25 February – 17 April, 2010

Joan Jonas, Yvon Lambert, 550 W 21st, Feb 27 – April 10

\ (LEAN) (with Nari Ward), Nicole Klagsbrun, 526 W 26th St. No. 213, MARCH 12—APRIL 24, 2010

“THE VISIBLE VAGINA”, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART (24 West 57th Street) and DAVID NOLAN GALLERY (527 West 29th Street), January 28 – March 20, 2010

“Vertically Integrated Manufacturing”, MURRAY GUY, 453 West 17th Street, January 9–February 20

Soho/Greenwich

SILKE OTTO-KNAPP, ‘Interiors’, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, 620 Greenwich Street, Through Saturday

JIMMY MIRACLE: NEW BIRDS, February 24 – April 3, Opening: Wednesday, February 24, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., All Things Project, 269 Bleecker St, www.jimmymiracle.com/_/allthings

ROBERT BLANCHON, Tracey/Barry Gallery, Bobst Library, New York University, 70 Washington Square South, Through Feb. 26

Anti-Prow, a project by PROW, the collaborative duo Peter Rostovsky and Olav Westphalen, art in general, 79 walker street, through March 10

Gareth Long,KATE WERBLE GALLERY, 83 Vandam Street, January 23–February 27

South Brooklyn

“Kiki Smith: Sojourn” continues through Sept. 12 at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park

LIC

Flux Factory, Housebroken, 39-31 29th Street, LIC, NY 11101, on view every Saturday and Sunday from 12 – 6 pm until March 21st

NOGUCHI MUSEUM: ‘NOGUCHI REINSTALLED,’ through Oct. 24, 9-01 33rd Road, at Vernon Boulevard

Queens

Longterm

Walter de Maria (through Dia), Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm (closed 3-3:30pm), Admission is free, The Broken Kilometer, 1979, 393 West Broadway

Out of Town

Philadelphia, Notations/Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni, November 21, 2009 – April 4, 2010

Happy art viewing.

-Matthew

matthewstudio.com