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Image: Younghoon Kim; from “Mentors”
All exhibitions are free and open to the public. The galleries will be closed Friday, March 9.
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SVA GALLERY
209 East 23 Street
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 7pm; Saturday, 10am - 6pm.
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My Last Attempt...
February 10 - March 3
An
exhibition of projects by students in the MFA Illustration as Visual
Essay Department based on Brendan Matthews' short story "My Last Attempt
to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer" and completed in
the Book Seminar class of Fall 2011. Curated by faculty member Viktor
Koen.
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BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department Exhibition
March 14 - April 7
Reception: Thursday, March 15, 6 - 8pm
An
exhibition of work by students in the 3D Design program. Presented by
the BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department. Curated by 3D Design
Chair Kevin O’Callaghan.
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VISUAL ARTS GALLERY
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm.
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Just The Tip
February 24 - March 10
Reception: Thursday, March 1, 6 - 8pm
The second of two thesis exhibitions in the MFA Fine Arts Department. Organized by Mike Egan.
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Mentors
March 16 - 31
Reception: Thursday, March 22, 6 - 8pm
An
exhibition of work by select BFA Photography Department students
inspired by their working relationships with leading members of the New
York City arts community. Curated by Department Chair Stephen Frailey.
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WESTSIDE GALLERY
133/141 West 21 Street
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 7pm; Saturday, 10am - 6pm.
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See My Voice, Hear My Vision
February 11 - March 17
An
exhibition of selected work by second-year students in the MPS Art
Therapy Department and the clients they work with at their internship
sites. Curated by faculty member Liz DelliCarpini.
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BFA Interior Design Department Exhibition
March 24 - April 7
Reception: Tuesday, March 27, 6 - 8pm
An
exhibition featuring student submissions to a juried competition to
design a new Moe's Cafe, the on-campus dining facility at SVA. Presented
by the BFA Interior Design Department. Curated by faculty members
Anthony Lee and Annie Coggan along with the department’s student
exhibition committee.
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ART DIRECTORS CLUB GALLERY
106 West 29 Street
Hours: Monday - Friday, 10am - 6pm
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Advertising and Graphic Design Portfolio
March 20 - 30
Opening: Tuesday, March 20, 5 - 8:30pm
An
exhibition of work by students in the BFA Advertising and Graphic
Design Department, who were asked to submit advertisements, campaigns,
designs, motion graphics and 3D work. Curated by Department Chair
Richard Wilde.
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SCREENINGS
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Art in the Twenty-First Century: Season Six Sneak Preview
March 16, March 23, March 30, April 6; 7pm
209 East 23 Street, Room 502
Free and open to the public
In partnership with Art21, the MFA Fine Arts Department at SVA presents a sneak preview of the sixth season of Art in the Twenty-First Century,
the only primetime national television series focused exclusively on
contemporary art. Through in-depth profiles and interviews, the
four-part series reveals the inspiration, vision and techniques behind
the creative works of some of today’s most thought-provoking artists.
The series is being screened at SVA over four consecutive Fridays in
advance of the April 13 premiere on PBS.
March 16, 7pm: Episode
1: Change features artists who bear witness, through their work, to
transformation -- cultural, material and aesthetic -- and actively
engage communities as collaborators and subjects. Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui
and Catherine Opie are featured.
March 23, 7pm: Episode 2:
Boundaries presents artists who synthesize disparate aesthetic
traditions, present taboo subject matter, discover innovative uses of
media and explore the shape-shifting potential of the human figure.
David Altmejd, assume vivid astro focus, former SVA faculty member Lynda
Benglis (BFA Fine Arts Department) and Tabaimo are featured.
March
30, 7pm: In Episode 3: History, artists play with historical events,
explore and expose commonly held assumptions about historic ‘truth,’ and
create narratives based on personal experiences. Marina Abramovic,
Glenn Ligon and Mary Reid Kelley are featured.
April 6, 7pm: In
Episode 4: Balance, artists grapple with equilibrium and disequilibrium
as they create highly structured works that challenge conventional
notions of perception and representation. Rackstraw Downes, former SVA
faculty member Robert Mangold and SVA alumnus Sarah Sze (MFA 2007 Fine
Arts) are featured.
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SVA/BBC Design Film Festival
Saturday, March 24, 1 - 9pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Schedule and $15 day pass available at
http://svabbc-auto.eventbrite.com
Presented
by the MFA Design Department and curated by Steven Heller and Adam
Harrison Levy, the Festival spotlights the career of filmmaker Alan
Yentob, the creative director of the BBC, who will be interviewed.
Also on the program is Levy's documentary Selling the Sixties: How Madison Avenue Invented a Decade, which tells the story of the advertising world that inspired the hit television series Mad Men. George Lois, the original Mad Man, will be present for a Q&A.
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Screening of Miss Representation
Saturday, March 31, 2pm
The award-winning documentary Miss Representation
examines how American youth are persuaded that women and girls’ value
lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality. A panel discussion and
reception hosted by New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT)
follow the screening. Presented by the BFA Film, Video and Animation
Department, Office of Career Development, and NYWIFT.
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public. Register at http://nywift.org.
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LECTURES/EVENTS
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Fred Ritchin and Brian Palmer: It is Not the Technology!
Thursday, March 1, 7pm
PixelPress.org
Director Fred Ritchin and photographer, writer and filmmaker Brian
Palmer hope to contribute to the global effort of tracing potential
paths out of the current chaotic media environment toward substantive,
ethical, and sustainable frameworks and practices that harness the
digital without fetishizing technology. Presented by the MFA
Photography, Video and Related Media Department.
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public
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Geoff Dyer: ZONA: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
Monday, March 12, 7pm
Geoff Dyer speaks about his newest book, ZONA: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
(Pantheon, 2012). A book sale and signing follows the lecture.
Presented by the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department.
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public
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Meredith TenHoor: The Infrastructure of Mass Consumption
Tuesday, March 13, 6pm
Meredith TenHoor
discusses some of the markets, transportation networks and other
infrastructures that made the mass consumption of designed goods
possible in the ‘60s and ‘70s. She discusses how they were designed,
what forms of consumption they enabled, and how they have been
appropriated and transformed for more sustainable uses today. TenHoor is
a PhD candidate in the architecture department at Princeton University
and is currently writing a history of architecture and biopolitics in
food markets of Paris. Presented by the MFA Design Criticism Department.
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. Space is limited. Register at http://dcrit.eventbrite.com.
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PDNs 30 2012: Transitions: Strategies for the Young Working Photographers Seminar
Wednesday, March 14
Seminar: 7 - 8:30pm
Reception: 8:30 - 9:30pm
A
panel of photographers featured in the 2012 PDN’s 30 issue offers
perspective on getting started in the photography industry. Panelists
discuss how they got to where they are today, including how they got
their first job and how they structured and financed their first
promotional efforts. They also discuss what they learned in school, what
they wish they had been taught, and offer career advice. PDN is one of the country’s leading photography publications. Presented by the BFA Photography Department.
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public
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Paul Chan: On Not Working
Thursday, March 15, 6:30pm
What
has acclaimed New York City-based artist Paul Chan been up to during
his break from making artwork? Was it truly a break from making artwork?
The artist speaks about the paintings he has been working on while
meaning not to be working. Presented by the MA Critical Theory and the
Arts as part of the What Where Lecture Series. For additional
information, visit http://cta.sva.edu.
136 West 21 Street, Room 220F
Free and open to the public
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Gay Block: About Love: Photographs and Films 1973 - 2011
Thursday, March 15, 7pm
Fine art photographer Gay Block talks about her newest book, About Love: Photographs and Films 1973-2011
(Radius Books, 2011). Block shows and talks about her work and leads a
discussion “about the intimate and personal aspects of portraiture.”
Presented by the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department.
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
Free and open to the public
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Justine Reyes
Monday, March 19, 7pm
Photographer Justine Reyes presents her most recent body of work, Vanitas,
which takes its inspiration from Dutch vanitas paintings and
incorporates personal artifacts within the traditional construct of
still life. Vanitas explores
the power of objects to bear witness to intangible ideas and emotional
truths. Presented by the MPS Digital Photography Department as part of
the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series.
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Free and open to the public
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Pre-Visualization and the Future of Digital Storytelling
Thursday, March 22, 7pm
SVA
hosts a panel of digital media professionals who are using
pre-visualization in innovative ways, including Chris Edwards, CEO of
The Third Floor in Los Angeles, and Joe Weil, ECD of Launch in New York
City. Panelists share some of their projects and discuss how traditional
storyboarding in feature film, television series, gaming and
commercials is not only evolving, but also transforming roles of many
artists. A full list of panelists is forthcoming. Presented by the
Office of Career Development.
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public. RSVP at http://svatalkspreviz.eventbrite.com.
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Camera Club of New York Lecture: Leigh Ledare
Thursday, March 22, 7pm
Author and artist Leigh Ledare received his MFA from Columbia University in 2008. His book Pretend You’re Actually Alive
(Andrew Roth Editions, 2008) coincided with a solo exhibition at Andrew
Roth Gallery. Subsequent solo exhibitions of his work have been
presented at Rivington Arms, Les Rencontres d’Arles and Rod Bianco
Gallery in Oslo, among others. Ledare’s work was included in PS1’s
“Greater New York” 2010 and has been featured in many other group
exhibitions.
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater
General admission, $5; students with ID, $3; free for members of Camera Club of NY and SVA students, faculty and staff.
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On the Verge: Geoff Manaugh and Jer Thorp
Friday, March 23, 6 - 7pm
BLDGBLOG founder Geoff Manaugh and The New York Times data artist-in-residence Jer Thorpe meet for a moderated conversation. Presented by the MFA Interaction Design Department.
136 West 21 Street, 3rd floor
RSVP required; visit http://interactiondesign.sva.edu for details.
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MPS Art Therapy Community Lecture: Poetry that Inspires Treatment
Friday, March 23, 6:30 - 8pm
Sandra
Buechler, PhD, a training and supervising analyst at the William
Alanson White Institute in Manhattan, discusses poems that have helped
her work with patients and inspired her to think about basic human
dilemmas in new ways. She reads selected poems and speaks about how she
has found them helpful.
133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C
Free
and open to the public. Seating is limited, and late arrivals will not
be admitted. All attendees must bring photo ID. RSVP to 212.592.2610 or arttherapy@sva.edu.
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Sasha Wolf
Monday, March 26, 7pm
Gallerist
Sasha Wolf, owner of Sasha Wolf Gallery in NYC, specializes in
contemporary photography with a special emphasis on documentary and
post-documentary work.
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Free and open to the public
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Witold Rybczynski
Tuesday, March 27, 6 - 8pm
Witold
Rybczynski shares the inside story of the planning, building, and use
of the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts at the University of East
Anglia, designed by Norman Foster in the mid-1970s for Sir Robert and
Lady Sainsbury’s private collection of paintings, drawings and
sculptures. Rybczynski is Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of
Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. Presented by the MFA Design
Criticism Department.
136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor
Free and open to the public. Space is limited. Register at http://dcrit.eventbrite.com.
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Distinguished Alumnus Lecture: Reed + Rader
Wednesday, March 28, 7 - 9pm
New
York-based fashion photographers, artists and graphic designers Reed +
Rader (Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader, both BFA 2007 Photography) speak
as part of the Distinguished Alumnus Lecture series at SVA. The duo
produces innovative digital art that blends photography, video,
animation, illustration, installation, and graphic and 3D design. Reed
and Rader met while attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and
furthered their education at SVA and at NYU’s Interactive
Telecommunications Program. Their clients include V magazine, V Man, Dazed & Confused, Another Magazine, Muse, Pop, Vs., Tokion Factory, Vice, Motilo, Cut + Run, SSENSE, Cynthia Rowley, Ashleigh Verrier and Beck’s Green Box Project.
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public
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Michael Sappol: How to Be Modern with Scientific Illustration: Fritz Kahn, Popular Medicine and the
Thursday, March 29, 6:30pm
Fritz
Kahn (1888-1968), a German-Jewish physician and popular science writer,
was one of the first proponents of modernist scientific illustrations,
which were conceptual, metaphorical and self-consciously modern in their
aesthetics. Historian Michael Sappol situates Kahn's illustrations and
larger agenda within Weimar cultural politics, analyzes key images and
genres and discusses the global diffusion of modernist conceptual
scientific illustration. Sappol is a curator and historian at the
National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in
Bethesda, Maryland. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department.
136 West 21 Street, Room 418F
Free and open to the public
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