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THE ART GALLERY
DRAWING THE LINE: EARLY ACADEMIC DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF
THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE
OCTOBER 21 - DECEMBER 2, 2015
Founded in 1875, The Art Students League remains one of the nation's most influential and respected art training institutions. This exhibition of works from the League's extensive collection examines the importance of life drawing to a nineteenth-century arts education through over thirty drawings by the students of Kenyon Cox, H. Siddons Mowbray, George Bridgman, and other key artists of the period.
This exhibition is made possible through the generosity of The Art Students League, New York and the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, New York.
SUI PARK: GARDEN OF HUMANS
MARCH 9 - APRIL 8, 2016
Using an anticipated 365,000 plastic cable ties of various lengths, artist Sui Park will create a wonderland of natural, cellular forms from mass-produced, industrial materials. In this installation created especially for The Art Gallery at Kingsborough Community College, Park addresses the potential underlying meanings of nature and its interplay within an industrialized world.
Left: Sui Park, Wiggling 1-4, 2014. Collection of the Artist.
DAUMIER'S PARIS: CARICATURE AND CULTURAL TRAUMA IN THE AGE OF HAUSSMANN
APRIL 20 - MAY 18, 2016
The Nineteenth-Century painter, sculptor, caricaturist and printmaker Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) was an astute commentator on Parisian life during that city's radical transformation by Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809-1891). Beginning in 1854, this massive urban rebuilding project, now known as Haussmannization, demolished many of the small, unique streets and neighborhoods in Paris, replacing them with wide boulevards lined with unified, cream-colored architecture--features we now associate with the look and style of the French capital. The loss of old Paris, however, was for many a traumatic cultural experience. Curated by Jennifer Pride, a scholar of nineteenth-century art at Florida State University, this exhibition reveals how Daumier expressed this shared national trauma through his lithographs, many published in the satirical magazine Le Charivari.
Left: Honoré Daumier, Vue prise dans un quartier en démolition (View of a neighborhood under demolition), 1854.
DIRECTIONS 2016: ANNUAL
STUDENT ART EXHIBITION
MAY 25 -JUNE 22, 2016
Directions 2016: Annual Student Art Exhibition celebrates the diverse talents of our Fine Arts, Graphic Design, and Art History students. All are invited to this greatly-anticipated annual Kingsborough Community College tradition.
Left: Augustus Vincent Tack, Figure Study, 1894. Collection of The Art Students League, New York.