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Alien Nations 2020
As communities all over the world face a modern-day pandemic, people are left to a new societal order. Concepts such as isolation and distancing, as well as technological connectivity, appear to acquire unprecedented meanings today. While many suffer from a lack of face to face communication, the bytes and metadata of unbounded Internet have become tyrannical. The shocking disruption and death caused by the Coronavirus, the unprecedented economic toll, violations of human rights, and immigration issues, all exponentially intensify a sense of alienation and anxiety. Acutely sensitive to their environment, artists often voice awareness of these problems, while having the gifts to turn our soci...
Eco-Urgency: Now Or Never
Lehman College Art Gallery presents Part II of the exhibition Eco-Urgency: Now or Never. The presentation at Lehman, Or Never, is both speculative and reflective, treating our ecological crises as a cycle that repeats itself endlessly. Here, artists examine the resonant patterns of history that have shaped and led us to our current moment alongside possible and causal futures. The presentation at Lehman complements Part I of the collaborative exhibition, Now, at Wave Hill, which brought together artists looking at the urgency of the present moment, raising awareness through a holistic approach to understanding our ecological crises, including overlapping social, political, and environmental ...
Mediums of Exchange
Mediums of Exchange is a two-part exhibition and the first collaboration between two of the largest exhibition spaces in the City University of New York's network of galleries. The project is co-curated by Bartholomew F. Bland, Director, Lehman College Art Gallery, and Lisa Panzera, Director, Shirley Fiterman Art Center.For centuries artists depicted the acquiring of money as a morality tale -the source of many evils as well as a desirable goal. ln the decade since the financial meltdown of 2008, artists work to transform an uncertain economy into artworks of visual significance. Mediums of Exchange presents more than 30 contemporary artists who appropriate and contextualize money, using cur...
Bedazzled
"Bedazzled" implies amazement, to be overwhelmed to the point of confusion; goingbeyond our senses and reason. This lush exhibition of 43 artists includes work thatseduces with glitz and glamour, and allures with a sense of magic and mystery. Theexhibition presents a broad range of media--painting, installation, sculpture,printmaking, and digital media--that entice the viewer, while blurring the boundariesbetween the aesthetic experience and enchantment.The artists represented in the exhibition are themselves a bedazzling array of famousnames, mid-career artists and freshly emerging local talents, whose colorful andprovocative works play with and illuminate each other. The artists in the exh...
Castles in the Sky
Artists have long embraced the dramatic visual possibilities of "castles of the mind," which allow them unfettered creative possibilities. Jarring the laws of actual architecture, the imagined palace functions as a very real foundation, buttress, and pillar for "Castles in the Sky: Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art." This volume explores the human imagination and the creative fantasy that hovers in the recesses of every artist's mind. Artists in "Castles in the Sky" include: Gustavo Acosta, Diane Arbus, Clint Baclawski, John Bowman,Hannah Brenner-Leonard, Michele Brody, Adrien Broom, Dean Byington, James Casebere, Laurent Chéhère, Thomas Cole, Beatrice Coron, Will Cotton, William Richard Crutchfield, LindaL. Cunningham, Salvador Dalí, Thomas Doyle, Peter Hamlin, Cameron Hayes, Robert Hite,Julie Langsam, Armando Marino, Jonathan Monaghan, Juan Garcia-Nunez, ClaesOldenburg, Lothar Osterburg, Kevin M. Paulsen, Laurie Simmons Rachel Sydlowski, Eric Wesley and Xing Danwen.Castles in the Sky: Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art is organized by Lehman College Art Gallery and curated by Bartholomew F. Bland, Executive Director.
Merry Wives and Others
In many ways, the history of domestic humor writing is also a history of domestic life in the twentieth century. For many years, domestic humor was written primarily by females; significant contributions from male writers began as times and family structures changed. It remains timeless because of its basis on the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, houses and inhabitants, pets and their owners, chores and their doers, and neighbors. This work is a historical and literary survey of humorists who wrote about home. It begins with a chapter on the social context of and attitudes toward traditional domestic roles and housewives. The following chapters, beginning with ...
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I Want Candy
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The Art of War
Catalogue from the exhibition entitled The Art of War: Posters from World War I & World War II featuring American and European posters on loan from the Hudson River Museum. The exhibition was presented at the O'Silas Gallery on the campus of Concordia College in Bronxville, NY from September 9-November 10, 2016 and at Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, Bronx from February 2, 2017 - May 2, 2017. The exhibition was organized by Bartholomew F. Bland
