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Metal, Acid, Line: Etchings from the Loeb
January 16–April 12, 2020
Spanning time and geography, this exhibition features more than a dozen etchings and was co-curated with Christina Tenaglia (Department of Art) in conjunction with Art 209, a studio course that teaches the fundamentals of intaglio printing. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Self-taught and Outsider Art from a Private "Teaching Collection"
January 21 - February 16, 2020
Reception: January 30, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Arthur F. Jones, an art history professor, collector and also an artist, spent most of his career in places where major art museums were lacking. The works included in this exhibition are all from Jones' teaching collection and reflect his long-held interest in art made by individuals not formally trained, but who are nonetheless highly motivated to express themselves visually.
James W. Palmer’90 Gallery, College Center
Charley Kinney (Kentucky, 1906-1992) “Wild Cat,” ca. Mid 1980s, Poster paint on paper
Louise Bourgeois: Ode to Forgetting,
From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and
His Family Foundation
January 24–April 5, 2020
Louise Bourgeois in her Brooklyn studio in 1992.
CreditFred R. Conrad/The New York Times.
Photo source: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/arts/design/01bourgeois.html. Accessed 1/7/20.
This exhibition brings together an array of late prints by Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) a world-renowned artist. The exhibition focuses on prints the artist made in her eighties and nineties. Many of the works incorporate fabrics and embroidery, reflecting a lifelong interest in textiles connected to Bourgeois’s childhood years in her family’s business of tapestry restoration in Paris. Explorations of time, memory, and the body were of importance throughout her life and career, and are especially palpable in these late works.
The exhibition was organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, in collaboration with the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Support is provided by the Friends of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Fund and the Horace Goldsmith Exhibition Fund. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
We Are Still in Eden
Thursday, February 6 - 5:00-9:00pm
A projection and soundscape exploring the primal sanctuary of nature. Presented by Rick Jones/Vassar Light Collective. The Vassar Chapel.
Inner Space / Outer Space
Saturday, February 8 - 5:00-9:00pm
An interactive projection and soundscape. Presented by Rick Jones/Vassar Light Collective.
The Bridge for Laboratory Sciences