In the mid-1960s, the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica began embracing joyously transgressive modes of performance, film, and installation to champion marginalized persons and their culture. Made in collaboration with the Brazilian filmmaker Neville D’Almeida while Oiticica was self-exiled to New York during the 1970s, the original installation series of five Bloco-Experiências in Cosmococa–Programa in Progress […]
The Hunter College BFA Program and the Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present the Fall 2022 BFA Degree Exhibition at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, December 14, 2022 through January 8, 2023. The exhibition will feature works by Vie Darling, Ula Movchan, Macy Rajacich, and Hannah Westerman. The gallery is free and […]
Curated by Bridget R. Cooks, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies and the Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine. Exhibition and tour organized by Sarah Watson, Chief Curator, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York in collaboration with the University Art Galleries at UC Irvine, Palo Alto Art Center, and Art Galleries […]
Life as Activity: David Lamelas Curated by Harper Montgomery, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art with Sarah Watson, Chief Curator, and Re’al Christian, Lazarus Graduate Curatorial Fellow, and with MA and MFA students enrolled in the curatorial practicum seminar: The Transgressive Itineraries of Conceptualism. Hunter College Art Galleries Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery […]
Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to announce Robert Morris: Para-architectural projects at Hunter’s Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery. Robert Morris, who died in November 2018, was an alumnus of Hunter College and a member of the faculty for over 40 years. Hunter’s exhibition focuses on a series of large-scale drawings made by the artist […]
Hans Hofmann: The California Exhibitions, 1931 revisits Hofmann's first exhibitions in the United States, mounted at San Francisco’s Palace of the Legion of Honor and the University of California, Berkeley’s Haviland Hall in August 1931. Hofmann was by then an internationally renowned teacher with a growing following of American students at his Schule für Bildende Kunst […]
October 5, 2018–November 25, 2018 Opening reception: October 4, 2018, 6–8pm Gallery hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 1–6pm The exhibition at Hunter presents ten of the 47 artists from the original Rebuttal show, including Benny Andrews, Vivian Browne, Betty Blayton-Taylor, James Denmark, Cliff Joseph, Richard Mayhew, Dindga McCannon, Ademola Olugebefola, Haywood Bill Rivers, and Frank Wimberley. It is […]
The School of Survival: Learning with Juan Downey foregrounds the relationship between Downey's artistic and pedagogical practices as illustrated in his works from the series Life Cycles and Mi Casa en la Playa, produced in the early to mid 1970s while Downye was teaching at Hunter College and Pratt institute. These works address Downey's concerns […]
