Collexhibition
June 3rd- August 22nd 2008
Opening Reception: June 3rd 3-6pm
Exchange Auction July 19th 1-4pm

The Earth is Our Mother: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Pottery and Clay Sculpture
March 27 - April 22, 2007
The Haudenosaunee, or the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, has existed on this land since the beginning of human memory. Our culture is among the most ancient continuously existing cultures in the world. We still remember the earliest doings of human beings. We remember the original instructions of the Creators of Life on this place we call Etenoha—Mother Earth. We are the spiritual guardians of this place. We are the Ongwhehonwhe—the Real People.

From The Haudenosaunee Address to the Western World, Geneva, Switzerland, 1977

Curated by Pete Jemison (Seneca), this exhibition celebrates the Haudenosaunee tradition of pottery and other clay forms. Participants Ada Jacques (Onondaga), Peter B. Jones (Onondaga), and Tammy Tarbell-Boehning (Mohawk) express their heritage by incorporating the remarkable shapes and designs of historic Haudenosaunee pottery. By also utilizing contemporary methods and forms, and exploring current issues, these artists define their place in contemporary society. This project is a collaboration with MGS and Native American Studies.

Breaking Boundaries: Exploration and Collaboration at Atlantic Center for the Arts
January 30 - March 17, 2007
Breaking Boundaries, a collection of both works-in-progress and completed works, celebrates the process of creating art, interdisciplinary collaboration and the history of Atlantic Center for the Arts. Selected by curator Judith Page from Atlantic Center’s permanent collection, the works in this exhibition represent an impressive cross-section of the prestigious artists – musicians, composers, writers, poets, choreographers, painters, sculptors, photographers, playwrights and directors – who have been Master Artists at Atlantic Center. The exhibition includes fifty framed works of art - among them works by Edward Albee, Terry Allen, Lynda Benglis, Henry Brant, Wendell Castle, James Dickey, Allen Drury, Janet Fish, Robert Frank, William Kentridge, Malcolm Morley, Yuji Takahashi and Chinary Ung.

SUNY Cortland Studio Art Faculty Biennial
November 7 - December 18, 2006
Video and fiber installations, ceramics, sculpture, paintings, and prints by Jeremiah Donovan, Lori Ellis, Kathleen Griffin, Charles Heasley, Lori Hepner, Jenn McNamara, Vaughn Randall, Elizabeth Sharp, and Bryan Thomas.

A Passion for Porcelain: The Crocker Collection of Decorative Arts
September 12 - October 21, 2006
This exhibition, curated by Dr. Barbara Wisch from a Cortland collection, includes 19th and 20th century: Meissen, Dresden, Staffordshire and Herend porcelain; and European and American furniture, silver, and jewelry. Loaned by Robert C. Howe, the exhibition celebrates the European porcelain tradition as well as a family’s “passion” for collecting throughout three generations. A study room includes a video of the making of Meissen porcelain, images of Dresden, and other fascinating educational opportunities. A Passion for Porcelain coincides with the 800th anniversary of the city of Dresden.

Beneath the Surface: Ralf Jean-Baptiste
June 5 - July 17, 2006
This one-person exhibition features paintings and sculpture by Cortland artist and Department of Art & Art History Alumnus (1992) Ralf Jean-Baptiste.

Select 2006: A Student Art Exhibition
May 10 - 20, 2006
The annual Select juried exhibition provides SUNY Cortland students (art majors and other students currently enrolled in a studio art class) with invaluable opportunities to have their work critiqued by a nationally renowned artist or arts administrator and to exhibit in a professional public gallery. The exhibit includes 60 to 70 works in all media, by beginning to advanced students. This year's juror is Cheryl Kramer, Director of Handwerker Gallery and Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.

Haunted Dreams: American Paintings from the Permanent Collection, 1922-1992
March 28 - April 29, 2006
Selected from SUNY Cortland’s permanent collection, this exhibition includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits, non-objective compositions and surrealistic images by artists such as David Ahlsted, Steve Barbash, Robert Birmelin, Fernando A. Carter, George Chaplin, Bruce Clark, George Dugan, Ben Galos, Robert Goodnough, Robert Marx, Michael Mazur, Ray Parker, Marion Rites, Jim Thorpe and Jerome Witkin.

What Is, What Shall Be, What Might Have Been: The Art of Kahn and Selesnick
Panoramic photographs and sculpture from three series – City of Salt, Scotlandfuturebog, The Apollo Prophecies

January 31 through March 18, 2006
In imagined worlds like Scotlandfuturebog, artists Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick document a world both gloriously absurdist and peculiarly sublime. Common logic has no relevance in the romance of historical vacuum. The viewer must relinquish the desire to contextualize, as creating rational pretexts for the masked characters, their strange rituals and their absurd inventions is futile. Eerie and stylish, these inventive images and assemblages blur the line between fact and fiction, and skew our sense of photographic truth as they explore the nexus between discovered and invented history. Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, born in New York City and London, respectively, have been collaborating for more than a decade; their work is held in the collections of The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as many private collections. They are represented in New York by Yancey Richardson Gallery.

Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina
November 15 through December 17, 2005
Between the height of the French Indochina War in the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, 135 photographers from all sides of the conflict were recorded as missing or dead. This exhibition is a memorial to those men and women. In many cases it includes the last photographs they took. Horst Faas and Tim Page, two photographers who worked and were wounded in Vietnam, have gathered many thousands of pictures by those who were killed. The resulting sequence of photographs follows the course of the war and the transformation of the serene landscapes of Cambodia and Vietnam into scenes of nightmarish devastation. At the moments of intense battle one is reminded not only of the courage of the photographers but of their compassion amid the brutality of war. "Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina" was organized by Horst Faas and Tim Page and toured by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY.

Harvey Breverman: About Face (& Other Anatomical Parts)
September 13 through October 29, 2005
The works in this exhibition explore aspects of disguise, deception and self-revelation. They touch on our social signature, our passport into the hearts and minds of those around us – all fueled by the ephemeral medium of drawing.

Harvey Breverman is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of Art and the 2003 recipient of the College Art Association’s Distinguished Teaching of Art Award. A graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University, Breverman has exhibited in New York, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Oslo, Paris, Bologna, Moscow, Basel, Barcelona, Tokyo, Rome and Rio de Janeiro, among other cities. He has been awarded eighty-five solo exhibition, and his works can be found in collections of numerous major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Albright Knox Art Gallery and British Museum in London. Breverman has been a member of the National Academy of Design since 1993 where he received numerous awards.

4 Pianos and Some Strings: Works by Ken Butler
March 16 through April 23, 2005
Béla Bartók and Itzhak Perlman meet the trash collector in 4 Pianos and Some Strings: Works by Ken Butler. Featured works include grand pianos made of egg crates, Styrofoam, twigs and radios, and violins made of a coat hanger, hammer, toy machine guns, valve body, slide rule, clock, tortoise shell and almost anything else imaginable. Brooklyn artist Ken Butler is a sculptor and experimental musician. His works have been featured in numerous exhibitions and performances throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Thailand and South America. He has performed with John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Butch Morris, The Soldier String Quartet, Matt Darriau's Paradox Trio, The Tonight Show Band and The Master Gnawa musicians of Morocco, among others. His CD, Voices of Anxious Objects is on Zorn's Tzadik label.

Decaying Place: Robert Bubp and Charles A. Gick
January 25 through March 5, 2005
In their mixed media with video installations, Robert Bubp and Charles Gick examine the impact of unchecked growth on our environment. Bubp writes of the Dowd installation, “CITY VS VOID is based on several construction sites documented in Atlanta, Georgia during the summer of 2001. Particular sites were selected because of their status as rebuilding sites, wherein one building was completely torn down so another could be rebuilt in the same place.” In WATER WITCHING Gick combines video, earth, bottles and other found objects to "explore the intersections between memory, the body, our emotions, and the sensory experiences we share with the natural environment." Gick is an associate professor of painting at Purdue University. Bubp is an assistant professor of foundations, painting and drawing at Wichita State University.

2004 Studio Art Faculty Biennial
November 9 - December 18, 2004
Paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, ceramics, bronze sculpture, wood and mixed media sculpture, installation, and video/digital media by SUNY Cortland Studio Art Faculty - Jeremiah Donovan, Lori Ellis, Charles Heasley, Allen Mooney, Carlyne Poore, Minna Resnick, Elizabeth Sharp, Bryan Valentine Thomas, Neil Zusman, and Stiller Zusman