Augustus Pugin, Entrance Hall, Old Exhibition of the Royal Academy when at Somerset House (detail)
Upcoming Exhibition (view all)
Harry Roseman: Hole in the Wall
When: January 22 - April 2010
Where: Atrium Gallery
About the show
Artist Harry Roseman will create a site-specific drawing installation directly onto a wall in the Atrium Gallery, which boasts thirty-foot arched ceilings in a bright, airy foyer with a round window high overhead. Roseman, the current chair of Vassar's Art Department and professor of sculpture and drawing at the college since 1981, will respond to the unique architecture and scale of the space as he draws across the entire wall, extending around the corners onto the adjacent walls. The resulting work is intended to inspire visitors to gain a heightened awareness of one's physical surroundings, experientially, spatially, and materially. Roseman will collaborate with composer, Adrienne Elisha to create a new work for live performance. Elisha, a musician fascinated by the inherent possibilities of visual images and their translation into musical form, color, timber, and sonic imagery, has at times made abstract drawings as a preparatory step in structuring new work. In January, there will be a public concert, premiering the resulting new work in the Atrium Gallery as part of the eighth annual Modfest, a two-week campus-wide festival featuring music, dance, poetry, and visual art. Harry Roseman: Hole in the Wall is the inaugural exhibition in a new program, which provides artists a laboratory-like environment to create new work on site. The program takes advantage of the Art Center's distinctive architecture and reflects our commitment to featuring contemporary art in the context of Vassar's world-class collection.
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