April 3–24, 2016
33 Garden Road
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504-5000
United States
T +1 845 758 7598
ccs@bard.edu
Beginning on April 3, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) presents 18 exhibitions curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art, with 17 individual exhibitions presented alongside a student-curated Marieluise Hessel Collection show entitled Receipt of a Magical Agent.
The CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College are open Thursday through Sunday from 11am to 6pm. All CCS Bard exhibitions and public programs are free and open to the public. Limited free seating is available on a chartered bus from New York City for the April 3 opening. Reservations are required; call T +1 845 758 7598 or email ccs [at] bard.edu.
The Spring Exhibitions in group one, opening on April 3, are as follows:
A Group of Fish and Other Schools
Benjamin Austin, Andy Warhol, and selected artists from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Organized by Benjamin Austin, and featuring an exhibition of works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection co-curated by Evelyn Donnelly and Dana Gentile
Doll’s Eyes and Dimetrodon Tears
Work by artists WhiteFeather Hunter and Jennifer Montgomery with still life photography by Robert Mapplethorpe and Hiroshi Sugimoto, an animal automaton, and archival materials from the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery
Curated by Linden Baierl
Emphasis Repeats*
Barbara Hammer, Andrea Geyer, Reina Gossett, and Alex Martinis Roe
Curated by Staci Bu Shea
Standard Forms
VALIE EXPORT, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Julio César Morales, Robert Morris, Ulrike Müller, and Martha Rosler
Curated by Christian Camacho-Light
Night Thoughts
Sadie Benning, William Blake & Edward Young, Win McCarthy, and Josef Strau
Curated by Jody Graf
A Path of Safe Travel
A selection of drawings by Sarah Oppenheimer
Organized by Emma James
Timely Illuminations
Ren Shulin, Bei He Meng Group, and Fusion Group
Curated by Yanhan Peng
The future will never arrive
Luis López Carrasco, Beate Gütschow, Lisi Raskin, and Sarada Rauch
Organized by Rachael Rakes
objects are slow events
Maggie Bennett, Simone Forti, Jonah Groeneboer, and Katherine Hubbard
Curated by Alexis Wilkinson
Also on view:
Receipt of a Magical Agent
April 3–May 24, 2016
Presenting works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection curated by the class of 2016 MA candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
Receipt of a Magical Agent employs the structure of the fairy tale as a curatorial approach, drawing from the morphology devised by 20th century Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp. By utilizing Propp’s method, whereby each tale is divided into 31 essential functions, Receipt of a Magical Agent explores how narratives are woven across an exhibition, between artworks, and within the single work of art.
Some of the artists included in the exhibition are Vito Acconci, Janine Antoni, Richard Artschwager, Matthew Barney, Roger Brown, Sarah Charlesworth, Anne Chu Francesco Clemente, Moyra Davey, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, April Gornik, Kojo Griffin, Walter Hampel, Rachel Harrison, Mona Hatoum, Imi Knoebel, Louise Lawler, Allan McCollum, Tatsuo Miyajima, Bruce Nauman, Ernesto Neto, Blinky Palermo, Allen Ruppersberg, Kiki Smith, Rosemarie Trockel, and Nicola Tyson.
Please visit our website for any related programming.
Student-curated projects at CCS Bard are made possible with support from the Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg Student Exhibition Fund; the Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Family Foundation; the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation; the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation; the Board of Governors of the Center for Curatorial Studies; and by the Center’s Patrons, Supporters, and Friends.
Media contact:
Andy Cushman, Blue Medium, Inc
T +1 212 675 1800 / acushman [at] bluemedium.com
Bard College contact:
Mark Primoff, Director of Communications
T +1 845 758 7412 / primoff [at] bard.edu
CCS Bard contact:
Ramona Rosenberg, Director of External Affairs
T +1 845 758 7574 / rrosenberg [at] bard.edu
