ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY, March 2016 – The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presents eighteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art with seventeen individual exhibitions curated by each student, along with a student curated Marieluise Hessel Collection show.
The first of two series of exhibitions opens on Sunday, April 3, with a reception from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., and is on view through Sunday, April 24. The exhibitions are: A Group of Fish and Other Schools, organized by Benjamin Austin; Doll’s Eyes and Dimetrodon Tears, curated by Linden Baierl; Emphasis Repeats*, curated by Staci Bu Shea; Standard Forms, curated by Christian Camcho-Light; and Night Thoughts, curated by Jody Graf; A Path of Safe Travel, organized by Emma James; Timely Illuminations, curated by Yanhan Peng; The future will never arrive, organized by Rachael Rakes; and objects are slow events, curated by Alexis Wilkinson.
The second series of exhibitions and projects opens on Sunday, May 8, with a reception from 1:00–4:00 p.m., and is on view through Sunday, May 29. The exhibitions are: Mother Iode, curated by Adriana Blidaru; We Are All Traitors, curated by Tim Gentles; Praising the surface, curated by Rosario Güiraldes; Third Nature, curated by Laura Herman; Spooky Action, curated by Patricia Margarita Hernandez; Abstract Sex*, curated by Dana Kopel; Overburden, curated by Humberto Moro; what is left of what has left, curated by Bhavisha Panchia.
Additionally on view is Receipt of a Magical Agent, a student-curated exhibition with works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Receipt of a Magical Agent employs the structure of the fairy tale as a curatorial approach, drawing from the morphology devised by twentieth-century Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp. By utilizing Propp’s method, whereby each tale is divided into thirty-one 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.
Student-curated exhibitions and 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; the CCS Bard Arts Council; and by the Center’s Patrons, Supporters, and Friends.
The CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College are open Thursday through Sunday from 11:00a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 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 3rd and May 8th openings. Reservations are required; call +1 845-758-7598 or email ccs@bard.edu.