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“Between I & Thou” includes artists from many different areas of the globe, exploringinterconnections between the personal, cultural, religious and national. The works reflect the human need to tell the story of self and society, offering a rich conversation about the sameness and differentness among us. There is an emphasis on the inclusion of senior artists whose works cogently reflect lives lived across significant changes in history. ‘Between I & Thou’ celebrates diversity.

Discussing this, Livia Straus, HVCCA Director, said,

“Faith Ringgold is arguably one of the most renowned African American living artists. Her work in quilts, drawings and book form speak to social justice as well as the stories and memories of her own childhood. Judith Zabar works through free association, her painting/drawings often beginning with doodled thoughts done at odd times, mining her subconscious. Other artists’ works overlay personal with cultural cues, like Aminah Robinson who interweaves memory laden buttons and fabrics from discarded, overused clothing, embroidering her assemblages with words referencing her spiritual journey as she treads the time worn stones of Jerusalem. An artist like Leonardo Drew draws on the materials that surround us as well as comfort us, such as cotton batting from mattresses now disposed of, but when recycled into art carry the stuff of our dreams.”

In this exhibit, one is confronted by Asya Reznikov’s work; the artist hand-expressing breast milk into crystal goblets, and mechanically expressing ​milk ​in her version of Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. She is both artist and mother, creating and nurturing in life and art. Peter Bynum’s full room installation, Illumination of the Sacred Forms: Divine Light Mission & Sanctuary, brings us into the biological structure of oneness​. Between I and Thou​ is an exhibition seeking to touch upon th​at oneness, the​ common hopes, needs and dreams that must take us, as human beings, to that which leads us to a more caring and peaceful existence, one in which we see the Between I & Thou.

Featured artists: Cristina Alvarez-Arnold, Laura Battle, Peter Bynum, Orly Cogan, Leonardo Drew, Camille Eskell, Kristján Gudmundsson, Erika Harrsch, Meg Hitchcock, Chris Jones, Barbara Korman, Cal Lane, Katherine Mangiardi, Todd Murphy, Brigitte Nahon, Susan Obrant, Jong Oh, Margaret Loy Pula, Liz Quisgard, Raquel Rabinovich, Asya Reznikov, Faith Ringgold, Aminah Robinson (Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson), Antonio Santin, Yardena Donig Youner, Jayoung Yoon, Judith Zabar

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The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art presents Peter Bynum’s “Illumination of the Sacred Forms,” a multi-media installation of illuminated paintings.

Livia Straus, Director of HVCCA, says “Peter Bynum’s ethereal, light-infused paintings bring us into an intimate relationship with the biological structure of our oneness. Working at the intersection of art and science, he has invented a technique for illuminating paint’s innate ability to express the forms and rhythms of the living universe. Floating on multiple layers of glass, biomorphic forms spread, pool, and flow. We are visually swimming in the paint and the light. This ‘secret life’ of paint is evocative of trees and roots, capillaries and synapses — the purposeful fluidity of life on the planet.”

Black velvet drapes at the entrance signal the immersive spiritual experience to come.  Upon entering, sacred music creates an environmental soundscape. The room glows with six paintings full of cosmic energy and ecstatic beauty, advancing our contemplation of the divine as well as the human threat to the biosphere.

A separate curtained booth allows visitors to sit and watch video projections of paint in action, showing its behavior under pressure as it flows and branches, a psychedelic experience of life forming and flowing before our eyes.  In another booth, viewers can sit in privacy to contemplate the painting “Between us, here, now,” a work that invites us to explore our relation with the Other, whether human or divine.

The installation is in conjunction with the museum’s main exhibition, “Between I and Thou.”

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“At its most provocative, contemporary art turns a corner and moves away from the past. This direction is put into motion either by the use of new materials, by introducing previously taboo content, or by breaking with traditional formats so that the way we think about art is challenged. Peter Bynum brings to this discourse a body of work focused on the subject of light that both explores and pushes the boundaries of contemporary painting.

There’s some sort of secret world in the paintings that is brought out with this light that comes from behind and presses beyond the edges of the glass. This goes so far beyond what traditional painting on canvas has ever been able to achieve. Peter Bynum has made one breakthrough after another, and pushed the language of painting into a new place. It changes the conversation.” -Dede Young, art historian and former Chief Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, NY.

The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA) in Peekskill NY welcomes work from a leader in the current fiber arts movement, artist Orly Cogan, for her solo exhibition Summer Lovin’. The exhibit will run from June 10th to July 31 an opening reception at the museum on Sunday, June 10th from 4 -7 p.m. preceded by the artist panel, “Home: A State of Mind,” featuring Orly Cogan, Susan Obrant, Jayoung Yoon, and Erika Harrsch with a special reading by Sharon Samuel and Celia Reissig-vasile.

Cogan reinvigorates vintage materials including tablecloths and baby linen through embroidery, crochet, and paint to create unabashed depictions of her experience as a twenty-first century woman.

HVCCA Co-Founder and Director Livia Straus says Cogan’s pieces “bring back memories of visiting grandparents’ homes, women creating trousseaus for their marital life, but upon investigating, the imagery is raw, feminist, and family-based—domestication stripped of second- skin clothing.”

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HVCCA is proud to present the Student Exhibition in conjunction with Peekskill High School’s 3rd Annual Young Docent event on Wednesday, May 30th from 6 – 8 p.m!

The public joined Peekskill High School students at @ HVCCA to learn about the art on display in Between I & Thou with free student-led twilight tours. Students from Peekskill High School & Summit Academy showcase original work in the upstairs gallery of the museum, including the artworks created during the artist residencies in their schools over the last year (featuring Cey Adams, Magali Duzant, Susan Morelock, and Kelsey Chase Folsom and more).

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Cey Adams, celebrated fine artist and legendary art director of Def Jam Records, brings his evocative and political collage works to the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in a solo exhibition, “Pop Revolution.” By shaping contemporary images within known brand logos, Adams layers meanings onto his work, inviting the viewer to examine their own relationship to these iconic brands that have shaped our culture. “I’ve always had a fascination with Pop Art and brand identity. My recent paintings invite the viewer to re-examine familiar symbols of traditional American values, hopefully sparking dialogue that leads to communication and a better understanding of who we are.” says Adams. 

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In collaboration with Peekskill’s Art Industry Media initiative, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art proudly presented Bleeding Edge, an exhibition of artists working in greater New York pushing boundaries in new media. Bleeding Edge investigated human-technological entanglements specifically how global networks have affected the ways in which we express intimacy, identity, and history, focusing on moments where technology fails to keep up with the complexities of the lived human experience. Using metaphor as well as formal means, these eight artists appropriate, subvert, and exploit the nuances of consumer technology, recognizing the tenuous line between emancipatory cyber-utopia and omnipresent corporate surveillance as a necessary site for artistic intervention and play.  Bleeding Edge takes its title from an industry term referring to technology so innovative it comes with incredible risk and an alarmingly high rate of failure.

The BLEEDING EDGE brochure was generously supported by the Polish Cultural Institute New York.

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Anthony Antonellis, Kelsey Brod, Izabela Gola, Faith Holland, Eleanor King,   Amanda Turner Pohan, Livia Ungur, and Sherng-Lee Huang

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HVCCA is proud to present a solo installation by fiber artist Leslie Pelino.  Working with salvaged materials- loose thread, ribbon, beads, buttons, flamboyant fabrics of silk, wool and chenille, plastic tubing and metal, Pelino creates a world steeped in memory and nostalgia.  Pelino’s installation, in its spirit, its complexity and its connections between elements that defy relationality, speaks to the spirit of the overarching exhibition ‘Between I & Thou’.  Based on the thesis of the great 20th century philosopher Martin Buber, and drawing on Kabalistic beliefs in the future restoration of a world united and at peace, ‘Between I & Thou’  incorporates interchanging solo presentations that speak to this hope for the future.    

Pelino’s installation is one of these individual statements/installations, designed to instigate poetry, discussion, thought, dialogue and performance as she weaves a new, whimsical and perfect world where disparate elements live together to create something new, something harmonious: beauty with a twist of the grim,  humorous while emphatic, playful yet grounded, soulful while dour, frenetic yet narrative rich and awesomely silent.

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The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA) opened, “Women Warriors,” on October 15th at 5pm.

“Women Warriors” honored the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in America, as well as the continuing fight for equal rights in the public sphere. A voting booth was created by artist Isis Kenney in conjunction with ArtsWestchester’s “Give Us The Vote” exhibition. Kenney is creating four large panels depicting “women warriors” such as Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and Adelina Otero-Warren as comic book superheroes fighting for the common cause of human rights. The work of Cey Adams, celebrated muralist, designer, and artist will also be on display with his culture-laden American flags. Both Kenney and Adams utilize the visual language of Hip-Hop in their work to create bold, colloquial images that speak to the essence of what it is to be an American citizen and warrior.

An open mic was made available for people to speak about women’s rights, student rights, and the rights of children! 

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The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art is excited to announce two site- specific installations, Liquid Memory, by Korean artist Jinsu Han that directly involve the Peekskill community and the Manitou School in Cold Spring, NY.  Both iterations speak to the nature of memory.

For the construction of the installations, Jinsu is asking members of the community to bring in bowls or containers that have a family memory or storyattached and lend them to Jinsu for the installation, which will honor our collective memories. Robotic elements will create a gentle movement.

Metaphorically, the objects, water, and the repetitive movement of the robotics connect the idea of how gradual change alters memory and how objects and story relate to the persistence of memory.

Jinsu Han has been making robotic sculptures for over 20 years. His work uses different materials varying from custom-made parts to found objects. The sculptures evoke poetic nostalgia, ‘offerings to memory.’ Community memory containers will be returned after the exhibition, with yet another story attached.

Jinsu Han (b. 1971) is a multimedia artist from Seoul, Korea. He received his BFA and MFA from Hongik University, Seoul, Korea and earned another MFA in sculpture and an Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007.  Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition“Fantasy Factor” (Force Gallery, Beijing. China) in 2016 and a group show “The Apotheosis of The Ex-Fish Market” in New York, 2016.

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The Selknam, an extinct aborigine tribe of Tierra del Fuego, is the inspiration for Elisa Pritzker’s installation at the HVCCA. Over ten years ago when Pritzker visited Patagonia, she felt an urgency to discover the people who had lived in Tierra del Fuego “before all the tourists came, speaking all different languages, from many cultures,” except for that of the Selknam, whose voices were gone.

Pritzker has created an installation that honors the tribe, gathered into reservations in the 1940’s and eradicated by diseases and cultures not their own. She began an in-depth study of the Selknam Tribe, using source materials from anthropologists and photographers, among them Anne Chapman.  In the 1950’s and 1960’s Chapman documented the Selknam’s unique culture and recorded their language and chants. Chapman was cured of a life threatening ailment by Lola Kiepkja, the last Selknam shaman alive. After intensive research, Pritzker realized how much the ancient cultures and traditions had to teach and her solo show at HVCCA brings the viewer – stone by stone – into the Selknam realm.

Elisa Pritzker, born in Argentina, now lives in upstate New York. Her work has appeared in exhibitions and museums worldwide. Brian K. Mahoney, Chronogram Magazine editor, said, Pritzker “… has helped to shape the evolution of the regional arts scene.” Certainly, Pritzker’s work, installations and objects, has reshaped how we think about culture, ancient, urban, natural or spiritual. Looking anew at the old, Elisa Pritzker’s installation at the HVCCA, provides a contemporary artist’s view of an ancient world.

An original performance piece, which uses Elisa Pritzker’s vision, integrates music, dance, and narration, giving the Selknam voice through the perspectives of three women, a female shaman, an ethnographer, and a mythological moon woman. The performance is at 5PM, Saturday, May 13th as part of the opening reception of Pritzker’s show.  Performance collaborators are Marcy B. Freedman, art historian and performance artist; musicians/composers Nannette Garcia, Maurice Minichino; and dancers Marsi Burns and Nomi Bachar.

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I’s Closed, I’s Opened: The Inner Self is a series of head and shoulder photographic diptychs, each one accompanied by a Haiku-like poem. In creating each portrait the subjects are requested to think about their inner life. The first image is with eyes closed, the second image with eyes open. After the photo session the subject wrote down his or her thoughts and feelings. From these, Berghash and his wife Rachel, a poet, composed a Haiku-like poem for each subject. Berghash’s intention in making these portraits is to record aspects of a person’s true inner self.

In an article for Art F City in 2016, Rom Vaughan said, “Whether Berghash succeeds in truthfully plumbing his subjects’ minds is known for certain only by them; but there is no doubt that he strikes to the core of the precept that photography is significantly related to memory.

Livia Straus, Director of HVCCA spoke of Berghash’s work saying, “His combination of words and images create a powerful confessional mode that both reveals and hides.” Among other institutions, Berghash’s work is included in collections of and has been exhibited at The California Museum of Photography, Riverside; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio; Franklin Furnace Archive, NYC; International Center of Photography, NYC; International Polaroid Collection; the Jewish Museum; NYC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; MOMA NYC; Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel; and Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art.

As part of his exhibition at HVCCA Mark Berghash photographed subjects, especially from the Peekskill community, on April 1st – 2nd, 2017. Photographs taken will be included with the exhibition of I’s Closed, I’s Open.

In parallel with the opening of I’s Closed, I’s Open,  HVCCA is proud to premier Donna Barkman’s play, Viewfinder, based on the auto-biographical  dioramas of Emma Rivers.

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Remy Jungerman’s work was featured in numerous publications and has been acquired by various institutions and private collectors worldwide including: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Gemeente Museum, The Hague,  Museum Het Domein Sittard; Zeeuws Museum Middelburg; NAI Rotterdam; Fries Museum Leeuwarden; Africa Museum Berg en Dal; Museum for Modern Art, Arnhem; Rennies Collection, Vancouver; Art Omi Collection, NY; and The Francis J. Greenburger Collection, NY. He attended the Academy for Higher Arts and Cultural Studies, Paramaribo (Suriname), before moving to Amsterdam where he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Remy Jungerman, a Netherlands based multi-media artist, is the Winter 2017 artist in residence at HVCCA. Born 1959 in the small Maroon community of Moengo in Surinam, on the northern Atlantic coast of South America, Jungerman has, for the last two and a half decades, made his home in the Netherlands. His work is an intersection between the African textile designs of Surinam and Dutch artists of the De Stijl movement, including Mondrian. Afro-Surinamese spirituality, or Winti, is his dominant theme.

Jungerman attended the Academy for Higher Arts and Cultural Studies, Paramaribo (Suriname), before moving to Amsterdam where he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. With his art, Remy tries to connect continents, weaving Surinamese traditional rituals textiles with the geometrical lines of Modernism.

The installation is in conjunction with the museum’s main exhibition, “Between I and Thou.”

This exhibition and residency is sponsored, in part, by NEA, the Dutch Consulate, Mondriaan Fund, and the Netherland-America Foundation.

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Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA) and the Peekskill City School District is pleased to invite you to the opening of High School students’ artwork in the upcoming exhibition Between I and Thou on February 4th from 4-5 p.m. at HVCCA.

Artist Kristianne Molina collaborated with over 100 Peekskill High School students during a 10 day intensive with HVCCA’s Teaching Artist Residency. Students explored painting and dyeing techniques primarily with cochineal combined with minerals such as iron, oxalic acid, tin, and aluminum. The student collaborative celebrates the individual and collective diversity, culminating into a large installation unveiled on February 4th in conjunction with HVCCA’s exhibition Between I and Thou.

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‘WORD’ was HVCCA’s first open call juried exhibition purposed to highlight talented regional artists who prominently feature ‘a word’ or ‘words’ in their artistic productions.  Some 140+ artists applied and 75 artists were selected.  These newer and lesser known works sat side by side with works of artists such as Beatrice Coron, Dylan Graham (Netherlands), Ann Hamilton (US 1999 Venice Biennale artist), John Mellencamp, Jeffrey Gibson, Laura Kimpton (SLS Miami, Burning Man, California) and Robert Indiana.

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The Student Exhibition included works completed by Peekskill High School students who worked with our in-school Artists-in-Residence as well as works by students from our Young Docents Program and other students. WORD artist Lance Johnson spent several weeks working with students at Peekskill

High School, resulting in 4 large panel pieces that are now permanently installed at the high school. Artworks on display included those four panels, the completed “Esperanza” mural from Live Art Fest 2016, a short film of Michael Feigenbaum’s residency at Summit Academy, and more. Plus, visitors could hear the voices of the Hudson Valley youth who participated in The “I’m Tired” Project from Yonkers, Newburgh, Beacon, Peekskill and Mount Vernon.

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Visions From the Inside was displayed as part of the WORD exhibit, and is an illustration project to highlight the personal costs of detention and the resiliency of the human spirit of migrants. The project is based on letters written by detained women and children at the for-profit detention center in Karnes County, Texas that illuminate their courage through their own words. This project was a collaboration between CultureStrike and the migrant-rights advocacy groups Mariposas Sin Fronteras and End Family Detention. These visual art interpretations were commissioned by CultureStrike and created by a diverse lineup of 15 visual artists from across the U.S. The painful letters describe the journeys of migrant detainee mothers and their children, as well as the conditions they experience while in immigration custody. In the last couple of years Central American migrants, including many unaccompanied minors, have sought refuge in the United States. Those who survive the dangerous trek from Central America through Mexico are often apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol and placed in detention, with little or no legal counsel, while they wait to see whether they will be allowed to stay in the United States with their families. Unfortunately for many, this journey ends in deportation back to the country from which they were escaping. We need a world without borders and detention centers! In the meantime, artists and migrants across the globe will continue to imagine the possibilities through culture and action. Check out this video, which was filmed in Oakland as part of the project!

CultureStrike is a national organization that empowers artists and social justice movements to dream big, disrupt the status quo, and envision a truly just world rooted in shared humanity through art. We believe cultural work is key to creating systemic change.

End Family Detention is a digital library composed by a network of families, volunteers, pro bono lawyers, social justice organizers, and digital activists dedicated to raising awareness and promoting action to end family detention.

Mariposas Sin Fronteras is a Tucson, AZ based group that seeks to end the systemic violence and abuse of LGBTQ people held in prison and immigration detention.

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The “I’m Tired Project” by Paula Akpan and Harriet Evans, Photograph by Robert Olsson

I’m Tired Project by British artists Paula Akpan and Harriet Evans was displayed as part of the WORD exhibit, highlighting the lasting impact of everyday micro-aggressions, assumptions & stereotypes. Performance is fused with written word as each of the participants formulate statements completing the phrase ‘I’m tired of…” The statement can address absolutely any kind of discrimination that the individual has personally experienced or feels passionate about. The artist duo then transcribe the individual’s text onto his/her bare back, excising the tension through this very physical act.  Photography documents the final product, serving as a personal and communal diary of purification and absolution.

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HVCCA proudly presents the 6th edition of Peekskill Project, a public art festival devoted to bringing contemporary art out of the museum and into the community; specifically into spaces not normally used to present art. Using the city as a stage, Peekskill Project 6 will engage the urban environment and its inhabitants, while presenting site-specific art exhibitions, performances and workshops throughout the city. Peekskill Project, first launched in 2004, has become a highly anticipated event attracting thousands of visitors each year as it offers children and adults the opportunity to explore the city’s rich social, cultural and geographic history through the lens of contemporary art. With active support from businesses, restaurants, city employees, and artists the festival has grown in scope, quality, and visibility. The festival continues to generate interest and investment in the City of Peekskill and serves to solidify Peekskill’s role as a premiere art destination.

Previous Peekskill Projects have featured work by over 100 established and emerging artists and have been visited by more than 30,000 people. Generous support from international consulates, involvement of city government and the community has been critical to the success of these events. This year Peekskill Project will feature an exciting variety of sculpture, photography, installation, video and performance art by approximately 60 international and local artists. Works will be exhibited in industrial buildings, storefronts, and parks around the city. The artists are using the rich history of Peekskill, the surrounding area, as well as their own varied personal narratives, as a generative tool to create their site-specific works. Many of the projects presented will also directly involve and engage the community in the creative process.

A comprehensive public program will be presented to coincide with the festival, featuring workshops with artists, film-screenings, public performances and events –including an exciting re-enactment of the Meteorite that fell in Peekskill on October 9th 1992, which on its anniversary will be returned to “space” in an air balloon. A talk series will also be presented in connection with the festival. Here we will bring together artists, curators, and the public to discuss themes such as; the role of contemporary art in everyday life, social engagement within the arts, and arts possibility of being integrated within urban communities in a meaningful way.

The place of art in society has always been a focal point for artists and critics. In recent years, artists have redesigned their role outside the contemporary art world, bringing their work into everyday life. Through the public exposition of artworks right in the midst of our Peekskill community, and through talks, workshops, performances, and events, Peekskill Project 6 will shed light on the possibilities inherent in public, participatory and community-based art today.

Featured Artists: Kristin Anderson, Mark Andreas, Victoria Arakcheyeva, Jan Baracz, Michael Barraco,  Andrew Barthelmes, Man Bartlett, Daniel Bejar, Joe Bigley, Liene Bosque, Karolina Bregula, Jenny Brockman, Jo-Ann Brody, Robert Brush, Alessandro Bulgini, Peter Bynum, Rigney Christopher, Teke Cocina, Lea Donnan, Olafur Eliasson, Lydia Goldbeck, Raphael Griswold, Katya Grokhovsky, Molly Haslund, Pablo Helguera, Elana Herzog, Sarah Hewitt, Owen Hunter, Rachel Simone James, Carla Rae Johnson, Deborah Kenote, Eleanor King, Saskia Janssen & George Korsmit, Adam Kremer, Dana Levy, T. Charnan Lewis, Tora Lopez, Andrea Mastrovito, Heather McKenna, Nina Mouritzen, James Mulvaney, Sabrina Occhipinti, Maria Rapicavoli, Elise Rasmussen, Really Large Numbers, Belle Ritter, Stephen Schaum, Dustina Sherbine, Megan Snowe, Kelly Stevens, Phumelele Tshabalala, Chris Victor, Tuo Wang, Julia Weist, Lachell Workman, Jayoung Yoon 

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It is with great enthusiasm that HVCCA launches a year of exhibitions and education programs exploring the artistic representation of Love: The First of the 7 Virtues and its antithesis, Seven Deadly Sins: Lust (scheduled to open April 19, 2015). Developed as an FWMA (Fairfield Westchester Museum Alliance) collaboration, each museum will explore a different sin and, in some instances, its parallel virtue.

In the HVCCA exhibition, love is depicted in all its wonderful variety, whether heterosexual, homosexual, transsexual, or non-sexual. Love is expressed in artworks in which the adoration of nature and animals is as strong and deep as any human bond. Finally, love is observed as memory, offering, shrine, and celebration.

From Robert Indiana’s iconic sculpture that plays on the power of the word ‘LOVE’, to Keith Edmier’s sculpture of the red rose bouquet Jacqueline Kennedy held the day her husband was assassinated, HVCCA invites the viewer to come to the exhibition and see love in some surprising and inspiring ways.

Artists included in the exhibition are drawn from communities around the globe.

Featured Artists: Thordis Adalsteinsdottir, Emil Alzamora, Matthew Barney, Hernan Bas, Marius Bercea, Derek Boshier, Birgit Brenner, Skyler Brickley, Ross Chisholm, Debby Davis, Keith Edmier, Carole Feuerman, Moyna Flannigan, Stefanie Gutheil, Dieter Hacker, Bendix Harms, Ridley Howard, Robert Indiana, Sam Jinks, Sherry Kerlin, Angelika Krinzinger, Keegan Kuvach, Charles LeDray, Marin Majic, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nick Mauss, Shirin Neshat, Jonathan Newman, John Newsom, Joel Otterson, Djordje Ozbolt, Paul Pretzer, Saul Raskin, Nathan Ritterpusch, Kalene Rivers and Dan Weise, Christoph Ruckhäberle, Athi-Patra Ruga, Helen Sadler, Maria Tomasula, and Richard Wathen.

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The Seven Deadly Sins, a groundbreaking series of exhibitions opening in 2015, from April through October, will be presented by seven arts institutions, all members of the Fairfield/Westchester Museum Alliance (FWMA), located in Fairfield County, CT, Westchester County, NY and the Bronx. The seven cultural institutions are: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Bruce Museum; Hudson River Museum; Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art; Katonah Museum of Art; Neuberger Museum of Art; and Wave Hill.

Each of the FWMA institutions explores one of the Seven Deadly Sins— Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Pride, Wrath, and Sloth. Despite their ancient origin, the sins continue to inform contemporary life, both individually and collectively. The seven exhibitions will spark discourse on the nature of sin, penitence and, conversely, virtue and goodness. The featured artists will prompt visitors to consider what it means to be a human capable of sin and to live in a global community where sin is prevalent. Allegory, humor, and irony will take center stage in the provocative art and compelling installations on display.

HVCCA is pleased to participate with Seven Deadly Sins: LUST, which takes on the subject specifically as it applies to sexual relations. The artists in Lust create artworks that visually explore raw eroticism in many forms of its expression. Catherine Opie’s ‘Pieta’ borders on religious ecstasy, while Larry Clark’s ‘Tulsa Series’ documents a playground of sex within a drug ridden culture of lost youth. In staging the exhibition at the HVCCA, works are chosen that present a cross section of human sexuality and speak to a hard-edged approach to lust for ‘lust’s sake.’

Featured Artists: Amy Bennett, Gilles Berquet, Ashley Bickerton, Bruce Bickford, Larry Clark, George Condo, Beatrice Cussol, Tony Matelli,  Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman, Betty Tompkins, Emily Wardill, and Entang Wiharso.

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The HVCCA’s 2013-2014 exhibition features works that lend themselves to narrative interpretations. The selected artists employ traditional art materials as well as new technology, video, and performance to look to art as addressing the very core of our everyday lives, our "weltanschauung."

In the works of Chen Zhen, Jeffrey Schrier, Gilbert and George, and Andres Serrano, we see evidence of the artist addressing identity politics as seen through past cultural and social traditions, race, nationalism, and heritage. Others artists in the exhibition, such as Ben Schumacher, Stephan Balleaux, Matt Keegan, and Adam Pendleton, extract materials from the current and future "world-in-the-ether" thus producing across global lines and re-appropriating disseminated images and objects that are the products of technology and industry. Marina Abramovic, represented here by her triptych Spirit House, which was performed initially within a circumscribed space at Sean Kelly Gallery, consistently tests the limits of her body. She emerged from Europe as a pioneer in feminism, movement, and installation. Her retrospective at MOMA proved the fact that live performance has the ability, when done by a master, to hypnotize the viewer and to take in and own the presentation in a powerfully psychological way.

In an increasingly fast-moving era, and as explored in Art at the Core, the world of art and culture bridge artistic disciplines- painting folds into sculpture, into sound, light, video, and performance.  Performance, enhanced by installation and often video, asserts itself as an art form, not in the narrative traditions of opera with its stage design, but in a contemporary format that defies traditional descriptions. The eclectic selections from the works of the twenty-three artists exhibited at the HVCCA, bring about a show that is riddled with complexities, manifesting diverse approaches to identity, society, culture, and materiality and dedicated to the intersection and melding of life and art.

Whether obvious or implied, metaphorical or physical, the artist’s reflection on life can serve as an eye opening experience to the viewer. In keeping with the spirit and in conjunction with the nature of the exhibition, several video and performance artists as well as seven playwrights have been invited to produce original scripts that intersect with the works in the exhibition, pulling performers, writers, and audience into an active exploration of mind that meets and explores the visual and the sensory at the individual’s "core." Performance/video works will be highlighted during the fall and winter of 2013, plays will be performed monthly from January through November 2014.

Featured Artists: Marina Abramovic, Stephen Balleux, Phyllida Barlow, Rafal Bujnowski, Jonas Burgert, Dan Christensen, David Drebin, Martin Eder, Bryan El Castillo, Robert Fekete, Gilbert and George, Charles Hinman, Lisa Hoke, Suzan Frecon, Lisa Karrer, Matt Keegan, Justen Ladda, Giles Lyon, Mara Mills, Haroon Mirza, Yigal Ozeri, Jon Pylypchuk, Adam Pendleton, Jordan Rathus, Osvaldo Romberg, Antonio Santin, Italo Scanga, Florian Schmidt, Jeffrey Schrier, Ben Schumacher, Andrew Sendor, Andres Serrano, Costa Vece, Phil Wagner, Jeff Wall, Angela Washko, Chen Zhen, Thomas Zipp, and others.

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HVCCA is proud to present video artworks by women who use the medium to explore the intricacies and dilemmas of gender, human relationships, and nation-centric politics. Each of the selected artists has endowed her video with a very personal point of view and simultaneously, created a video that is meaningful to a larger audience.

Kate Hampel’s video Casual Encounters - A Month of Sundays features the artist in a long, dark wig, reading selections from a Craigslist website for “women seeking men.” The video suggests the ways in which men are objectified and reduced to a set of physical traits and broad personality types by certain women.

Amy Jenkins addresses the shifting terrain of gender identity in a pair of interconnected videos. Audrey Superhero documents the desire of her six-year old daughter to be a boy. Becoming, memorializes her son’s first haircut at the age of three. His long, blond tresses are cut off in this ancient ritual of change, relinquishing his gender neutrality.

Adela Jusic’s When I die, You Can Do What You Want reveals the challenging personal and political history of an elderly woman, as well as the touching bond between a grandmother and her granddaughter.

Alex McQuilkin suggests a powerful connection between herself and the 15th century French heroine in her video Joan of Arc. In Magic Moments (Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl) McQuilkin addresses the sexualization of young women in contemporary media.

Sara Shaoul’s Erin Mahoney (Activist, Friend) explores a seemingly simple interchange that belies a sophisticated exploration of female bonding and contemporary politics in the United States.

Rona Yefman and Tanja Schlander’s, Pippi Longstocking, The Strongest Girl in the World, at Abu Dis, is a collaboration that places a classic children’s heroine in the midst of the troubling contemporary politics of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, while addressing the power of women to make changes in the world.

Maria Marshall’s President Bill Clinton Memphis, Memphis, November 13, 1993, shows the artist’s children in the frenzied act of constructing and deconstructing their environment, all to the rhythm of a child reading a text of President Clinton addressing the importance of human productivity.

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Suara Sinar is a site-specific installation that transforms a vast windowless abandoned warehouse on the Peekskill, NY waterfront into a sanctuary of light and sound. In the middle of a pitch black 10,000 sq. foot space there is an oasis of couches, pillows and rugs. Spiraling out from the oasis in concentric circles stretching across the entire space are instruments from a Balinese Gamelan orchestra retrofitted with mechanical mallets mounted in the ceiling trusses. Twenty four bronze kettle shaped gongs called Reyong and Trompong, 4 hanging gongs ranging in size from 23 to 35 inches in diameter, 4 pairs of 9 inch bronze hand cymbals (Kopyak), and 2 dragon turtles with eight 4-inch hand cymbals (Ceng-Ceng) robotically play day-long sequences of music composed specifically to allow the entire warehouse to function as a resonating chamber. With each sound a pulsation of light bursts from the instrument and fades as the tone diminishes, briefly illuminating a spot in the vastness. Movements of music become a choreographed panoramic dance of light.

Suara Sinar is a refuge, it is a universe unto itself, it is an offering, a respite, an escape, and a confrontation.

Aaron Taylor Kuffner is a conceptual artist, sculptor, and composer. His pieces often take the form of long-term multiyear projects that involve in depth research, collaboration with field experts and development of specialized skill sets. Each project is uniquely attached to the idea of providing conceptual tools that further the evolution of consciousness through experiences of beauty and the sublime. In doing so he reaches far outside of conventions pushing the role of art to be a form of service to society. aarontaylorkuffner.com

Learn about the Gamelatron Project at www.gamelatron.com
For more information on the entire exhibition visit www.caramoor.org

In the Garden of Sonic Delights is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature

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“Works of art may speak to us through our visual senses but, when enriched by the spoken word, the works have the capacity to expand what is accessible to our imaginations, to overlay the imagery of one artist upon that of others and to permit us to take the world in so as to offer myriad possibilities.”

-- Livia Straus, Director of the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art

Acting Out: Words that Connect, a theatrical performance series, features original scripts by eight writers of the Greater New York area interfacing with works from the museum’s exhibition, Art at The Core. The resulting one-act plays, as well one commissioned drum piece, will be directed by Mara Mills.

Writers include: Donna Barkman, Susan Hodara, Tony Howarth, Lisa Karrer, Coni Ciongoli Koepfinger, Matty Selman, and Bob Zaslow.

“Our goal is to intertwine word and image; to break artificial boundaries between audience and art, theatrical, and visual. What better place to bring voice to contemporary art than in the dramatic setting of HVCCA?”

--Mara Mills, Director

STAGE SETTING | The plays are set in front of the artworks that inspired them. This is the HVCCA’s sixth collaboration with director Mara Mills following the successful Size Matters: Image and Script (2008), The Form of Matter (2009), Talk Dutch to Me (2010), The Ides of March (2012), and Words That Paint (2013).

In early 2012 Angela Washko founded "The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft" as a performative intervention within the misogynistic environment of World of Warcraft, the most massively popular multiplayer role playing game of all time. Instead of continuing to follow the quest structure of the game—killing dragons, getting better equipment, joining more competitive guilds—while performing as "The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft," Washko facilitates discussions with players inside the game about the ways in which the community therein addresses women and how players respond to the term "FEMINISM." Washko is interested in the impulse of the community/player-base to create an oppressive, misogynistic space for women within a physical environment that is otherwise accessible and inviting. Furthermore, WoW is a geographically, politically, economically, socially, and racially diverse community (a much more varied community to engage with than she has in physical public space). Consequently, these discussions within the game space create a much larger picture of the American opinion of the evolving roles of women in contemporary society.

Washko plays a number of different characters on different servers. In the works presented through Playing A Girl, Washko plays three characters: Washclothes, Ookitties, and Snuh. The conversations Washko facilitates generally start with feminism and meander into discussion surrounding long list of topics including (but certainly not limited to): the male impulse to play female characters within World of Warcraft, inherent gendered qualities, homophobia, separatism, and rape.

Angela Washko is a video artist and facilitator devoted to mobilizing communities and creating new forums for discussions on feminism where they do not exist. Her practice is research-based, employing data, and archiving strategies as storytelling tools to create prototypes for actions by others. Intentionally misusing software and media, Washko attempts to intervene on public opinion regarding proper etiquette, appropriate lifestyle choices, and limited gender designations. angelawashko.com

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The HVCCA presents Jordan Rathus in a live, multimedia, musical performance, featuring long time collaborators Nick Paparone and Bill Santen. The event will be spotlighting the world debut of the band “Tiny Rothko”–Rathus with Andrew Adolphus!

The HVCCA will show a Rathus “mini-retrospective” installation featuring multiple moving image works, whose theme centers on over-the-top creations of on-camera personas and unique interpretations of specific film and television tropes. Several of Rathus’ video works will be shown, plus a full red carpet and a celebrity “step and repeat” is installed.

One of Rathus’ exciting new video pieces is titled Based On, If Any. In the screenwriting software program Final Draft, there is a title page template that prompts the user to type in the title of the screenplay s/he is writing. Just below, another prompt reads: Based on, if any, suggesting the screenwriter pay homage to the source material for the screenplay.

Another film on view at the HVCCA will be Real Work/The Game Show. Here Rathus performs the multifaceted role of a “real person,” i.e. a video artist, who transitions into a reality show celebrity.

Jordan Rathus was born in Princeton, NJ in 1983. She studied at the Manhattan School of Music, Preparatory Division from 1994 to 2002. Rathus earned her BFA in Film and Television Production from New York University, NY in 2005. In 2012, she completed a MFA in Visual Arts (New Genres) at Columbia University, NY.  She was the 2012 MFA Artist in Residence at Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI, and is a recipient of the Brooks Fellowship Award from Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO and the Tony Hawkins Award from New York University, NY. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

This exhibition showcases works by members of the Peekskill Artist Club including Gulgun Aliriza, Emil Alzamora, Cristina Alvarez Arnold, Matthew Arnold, Andrew Barthelmes, Katrina Ellis, Geoff Feder, Philip Hardy, Katherine Mangiardi, James Mulvaney, Adam Niklewicz, Jason Repolle, Shara Shisheboran, Timothy Smith, Ken Vallario, and Michael Zelehoski.

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The 19th-century group of artists known as the "Hudson River School" shared a strong passion for the landscape of the region. These artists and their patrons shared a love affair with this young country that often surpassed connections to their roots in England and Europe. Though the period of the Hudson River School was short lived, spanning just thirty years, painters Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, and Frederic Edwin Church emerged as some of the most memorable artists of the era. Many of these artists did not call the Hudson Valley home, yet they drew artistic inspiration from the region, defining an important genre.

Peekskill Project V brings together 120 artists whose works will be exhibited in the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art and in venues throughout the City of Peekskill, situated on the majestic shores of the Hudson River. These artists have been influenced by the vast Hudson Valley Region, extending from Lake Tear in the Clouds, the origin of the Hudson River, to its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean. The impact of this dynamic landscape is reflected in these works. This New Hudson River School addresses the landscape but goes far beyond the heritage of putting brush to canvas, embracing the use of found materials and new media, including video and installation. Several works investigate the region by literally digging into its history and archeology, addressing the grittiness of its urban sites. Others highlight the bucolic splendor of the riverfront, splendid estates, waterfalls, mountains, and valleys. The works reveal the cacophony of cultures, economic strata, and ethnic roots that have been reflective of this region from its Colonial period until today.

- Livia Straus, Founder and Director, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art 

Featured Artists: Brandon Ballengée, Thomas Bangsted, Ali Banisadr, Phyllida Barlow, Huma Bhabha, Margaret Cogswell, Diana Cooper, Grayson Cox, Nicole Eisenman, Jeffrey Gibson, Greg Haberny, Ellen Harvey, Ran Hwang, Robert Lobe & Kathleen Gilje, Marie Lorenz, Virginia Martinsen, Charles McGill, Yigal Ozeri, Daniel Phillips, Brie Ruais, Will Ryman, Arlene Shechet, Skewville, Ouattara Watts, Michael Zelehoski

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Hudson River artists address the landscape by patch-working images through a lens of political and environmental consciousness. Addressing issues we face in modern society, these artists have found a contemporary visual language to reinterpret their surroundings.

Featured Artists: Justin Allen, Erik Benson, Mia Brownell, Ian Davis, Purdy Eaton, Cara Enteles, Lisa Lebofsky, Julie Anne Mann, Robin Michals, Jean Pierre Roy, Nancy Shaver, Arlene Shechet, Brooke Singer, and Willie Wayne Smith.

A selection of the artist’s exciting recent works.

Breaking with the functionalism of his earlier industrial assemblages and public sculpture, R. M. Fischer's new combinations of hard and soft forms turn utilitarian character on its head with the artist's additions of baroque fetish-like figures. These new amalgamations of soft organic shapes are crafted out of colorful vinyl, felt, and upholstery; sewn together with thread and stuffed into large appendages. These appendages are fastened to Fischer’s familiar, machine-like constructions, crafted out of steel, aluminum and brass. The artist’s imagery evokes the work of Claes Oldenburg and Yayoi Kusama in its playfulness, anthropomorphic quality and underlying sexuality.

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A broad look at the artist’s work from the 80’s until today.

Rick Prol started showing his work in 1982, during the heyday of the East Village art scene of the 1980s. The East Village scene embraced the idea of a community of experimental artists living in and thriving off of the grittiness and cultural richness of the area.

Prol quickly became an icon of the era, known for his dark yet vibrant, cartoonish descriptions of fantastical murder and mayhem in the rat-infested urban jungle. Prol’s paintings incorporate various styles including Art Brut and Expressionism, laced with various art historical references and laden with sincere depictions of the urban human condition.

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65 artworks by 47 international artists who emerged with significant artworks in the extremely prosperous and exciting period between 1981 and 1991.

'CIRCA 1986 shows 65 artworks by 47 international artists who emerged with significant artworks in the extremely prosperous and exciting period between 1981 and 1991. The exhibition attempts to capture a decade, a momentous game changing time that started in a rush and ended with the collapse of the art market. It is seen from the perspective of 6 New York based couples who, over much of the past 50 years, spent considerable effort building important art collections, each independent of advisors each extremely diligent and each original.

Featured Artists: Gregory Amenoff, Richard Artschwager, Ashley Bickerton, Ross Bleckner, Christian Boltanski, Jonathan Borofsky, James Brown, Sarah Charlesworth, Clegg & Guttmann, Walter Dahn, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Moira Dryer, John Duff, Nancy Dwyer, Barbara Ess, R.M. Fischer, Gilbert & George, Robert Gober, Antony Gormley, Dieter Hacker, Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Mike Kelley, Anselm Kiefer, Win Knowlton, Jeff Koons, Paul Laster, Sherrie Levine, Robert Mapplethorpe, Allan McCollum, Mark Morrisroe, Elizabeth Murray, Bruce Nauman, Joel Otterson, Rona Pondick, Richard Prince, Rick Prol, David Robbins, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., David Row, Julian Schnabel, Mike and Doug Starn, Peter Schuyff, Jessica Stockholder, John Walker, David Wojnarowicz

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The HVCCA is pleased to announce First Look III, an exhibition showcasing 12 outstanding MFA students from across the United States.

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Daniel Pitin has created a new body of work that features his trademark fictional settings evocative of theatrical stage sets, but with a new resonance of the locale.

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Emerging contemporary art from East and Central Europe by artists who were educated at the transitional period between communism and democracy.

This exhibition is curated by Marc and Livia Straus who have attempted to bring together some of the best work from Eastern and Central Europe and in so doing discern its similarity and differences among one another and in relation to art in the West and more importantly to attempt to explicate why artists from this region are making such compelling work at this moment.

Featured Artists: Janis Avotins, Marius Bercea, Zsolt Bodoni, Josef Bolf, Matija Brumen, Adrian Ghenie, Ion Grigorescu, Elvis Krstulovic, Marin Majic, Ciprian Muresan, Daniel Pitin, Serban Savu, Leonardo Silaghi, Goran Skofic, Attila Szucs, Alexander Tinei, Josip Tiric, Zlatan Vehabovic

Leonardo Silaghi’s first solo painting exhibition in the United States. Silaghi’s large scale paintings are based on a photographic reality, which is later distilled by means of abstraction. This combination leads to images that are both indistinct and coherent at the same time.

Silaghi's large scale paintings are based on a photographic reality, which is later distilled by means of abstraction. This combination leads to images that are both indistinct and coherent at the same time. It is in this complex way that the artist easily crosses the line between abstract and figurative art.

Showing 13 artists who have nothing in common, except that they meet monthly to critique each other’s work. These discussions are open, incisive, tough, fair, generous, and tremendously helpful.

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Double Dutch is an exhibition celebrating the Quadricentennial of the Dutch discovery and settlement of the Hudson River. The exhibition showcases contemporary Dutch installation art.

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As part of a focus on the Quadricentennial year of the Dutch settlement along the Hudson, the HVCCA presents a solo exhibition by Fendry Ekel in the Mezannine Gallery. In this exhibition Ekel’s guaches and watercolors critically investigate the way in which buildings and monuments are used as a confirmation of power to seduce, manipulate, and intimidate.

Karen Sargsyan is an Amsterdam based artist who came to Peekskill to produce a site-specific sculptural installation for his solo exhibition.

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Origins presents major works by 30 artists from 15 countries using natural materials: clay, ash, fiber, wood, and soil. Artists include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Carl Andre, Huma Bhabha, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Zhang Huan, Richard Long, Kiki Smith, Mierle Ukeles, and Franz West.

This is a multimedia installation in which large multi-colored algae have been made by casting translucent abaca sheets into molds that are then hung from ceiling to floor. The work intends to express certain feelings of isolation and attempts to convey characteristics of the actual experience, rather than explorations or descriptions.

This is a sculptural installation that consists of two new large scale figurative sculptures situated contextually within the space of the HVCCA and intends to engage the viewer in a “conversation” that is both spatial and philosophical.

“Contemporary art can challenge, inspire, and inform. It shouldn’t be confined to just museums and galleries. By bringing art to where the people live their daily lives, we hope to connect with as wide an audience as possible”Livia Straus, President and co-founder of the Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art.

The Peekskill Project, a citywide site-specific exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary art, was launched in 2004 with the goal of bringing contemporary art out of the museum and into the community. The public arts festival presents a wide variety of painting, sculpture, photography, installations, video, and performance art by national and international artists selected by a juried committee of renowned curators. Work by over 100 artists were selected from an elite curatorial committee which are sited in storefronts, parks, and in vacant lofts and lots around our city.

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Chris Jones is a London based artist who creates sculptures that hover between the fantastical and the mundane, composed of images from magazines, calendars, encyclopedias and posters. During his residency at the HVCCA, Jones has lived in Peekskill creating a new group of works, piecing together local stories, history, and terrain.

The second of a two-part exhibition investigating scale in contemporary painting, featuring monumental paintings by a diverse group of international artists.

The first of a two-part exhibition investigating issues of scale in contemporary painting featuring many of today’s most exceptional established and emerging artists.

Maider Bilbao creates a site-specific installation and performance.

Maider Bilbao is an interdisciplinary artist who combines sculpture, photography, performance, video and sound in site-specific installations. Often working outside in natural environments, she documents experimental performative actions using video and photography. She then reinterprets these actions in the gallery context using biomorphic constructions made of elastic textiles onto which images are projected.

16 students selected from over 800 studios – the best of the new artists in the U.S.

Only the Paranoid Survive focuses on our current “culture of fear” that stems from the continuous bombardment of terror warnings, suspicions, and scenarios of impending catastrophe. The featured work focuses on the artists anxieties and plays with each of our pathological fears.

Curated by Daniel Fuller

Featuring Work From: Darren Almond, Marc Bijl, Nigel Cooke, Sean Dack, and others.

Reverence features the work of 33 internationally renowned artists from 13 countries. It addresses universal hopes and spiritual aspirations that are beyond particular religious iconography.

111 Artists . 16 Curators . 1 City

2006 Participating Artists:
Anna Adler, Oscar Alzate, Kathleen Anderson, Alessandro Balteo, Toby Barnes, Sarah Beddington, Daniel Bejar, Curt Belshe, Elizabeth Bick, Christa Blatchford, Cree Bruins, Diego Bruno, Donald Bruschi, Greg Bugel, Jessica Cannon, Laurel Jay Carpenter, Heinz Cars, Bleu Cease, Carrie Dashow, Dana Devito, Andrew Duggan, Anne Eastman, Eh Team, Nelson Electric Haircut, Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Magda Fernandez, Chantel Foretich, Christopher Frederick, Marcy B. Freedman, Charley Friedman, Monika Goetz, Ruth Gomez, Abby Goodman, Lynn Gufeld, Erik Hanson, Heide Hatry, Sarah Haviland, Laurel Heide, Jill Henderson, Vlatka Horvat, Curt Ikens, Jo Jackson, Katherine Jackson, Carla Rae Johnson, Veronica Johnson, Hyom Kang, Elanit Kayne, Isolde Kille, Esther Kokmeijer, Marni Kotak, Yuliya Lanina, Judith Scott Larsen, Chang-Jin Lee, Nathalia Leginowicz, Jana Leo, James Leonard, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Joshua Levine, D. Dominick Lombardi, Jen Liu, Tony Luib, Kiersten Lukason, Michael Mahalchick, Luis R.Maldonado, Jr., David Maroto, Jillian McDonald, Dana Melamed, Cindy Moore, Michael Anthony Natiello, Neil Ira Needleman, Lori Nozick, Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak, Yuki Okumura, Kambui Olujimi, Gene Panczenko, Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, Julie Anne Pieri, Berenice Pliskin, Lise Prown, Lee Ranaldo, Kevin Robinson, Marcos Rosales, Michelle Rosenberg, Daniel Rothbart, Elsie Sampson, Thomas Sandbichler, Carlos Sandoval de Leon, Jonathan Santos, Gae Savannah, Daniel Seiple, Dafna Shalom, Ah-Bin Shim, Jamie Shultz, Christian Siekmeier, Xaviera Simmons, Elena Sniezek, Tobias Sternberg, Mark Stockton, Jennifer Sullivan, Dannielle Tegeder, Cassandra Thornton, James Walsh, Dina Weiss, Letha Wilson, Pawel Wojtasik, Bryan Zanisnik, and Katarina Zdjelar.

2006 Curators:
Camilo Alvarez, Priska C. Juschka, Karlos Carcamo, Ingrid Chu, John Daquino, Juliana Driever, Tania Owcharenko Duvergne, Daniel Fuller, Trong G. Nguyen, Blanca de la Torre García, Micaela Giovannotti, Angela Kotinkaduwa and Sam Tsao, Emily Puthoff, Micah Silver, Lisa Paul Streitfeld, and Peter Zangrillo.

2006 Sponsors:
Westchester Arts Council, Entergy Corporation, Ginsburg Development Corporation, Peekskill BID, City of Peekskill, Peekskill Inn, WHUD, and Danes Lumber.

Nostalgia addresses the idea of reminiscence, melancholy and longing, and the subtlety and depth of this unique emotion.

Featured Artists: Ann Hamilton (US), Mona Hatoum (Lebanon), Justen Ladda (Germany/US), Julian LaVerdiere (US), Matvey Levenstein (US), Luca Stoppini (Italy), Claire Woods (UK), Dustin Yellin (US), and Cristof Yvor (France).

“This is all museum grade… That it is in Peekskill is thrilling.”
-NY Times

A comprehensive survey of the best figurative sculpture and video today features 29 artists from 17 countries.

Featured Artists: Marina Abramovic, Berlinde DeBruykere, Tom Friedman, Red Grooms, Damien Hirst, Yayoi Kusama, Mark Manders, Paul McCarthy, Juan Munoz, Shirin Neshat, Nam June Paik, Evan Penny, Patricia Piccinini, Rona Pondick, Kiki Smith and emerging artists – Folkert de Jong and Will Ryman.

First Look takes a snapshot of work coming out of MFA programs at a moment when there is a burgeoning number of graduate art programs and increased enrollment.

Repetition uniquely focuses on art which repeats an image, sound, and/or sculptural object.

When We Came tells the story of Peekskill from the dawn of human beings.

Symbolic Space is about how the visual artist’s space might be a flat canvas, but that it energizes and implicates of its own and other space is essential.