“Another Place: The C12 Exhibition”

Hunter College Art Galleries (205 Hudson St.)

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Another Place: The C12 Exhibition presents the work of eight Hunter College MFA graduates from the past decade whose art practices redefine space. Through painting, sculpture, performance, and installation, these artists create alternative places that function within, but as a counterpoint to, society. Philosopher Michel Foucault calls such locales heterotopias — circumscribed areas that deviate from customary rules and behaviors.

As the first curated exhibition at Hunter College’s 205 Hudson Street building, Another Place also commemorates the MFA program’s recent move to Tribeca from 41st Street in Hell’s Kitchen, where the program had been located since 1989. All of the featured artists had studios in the old space, making this show a bridge between the old and the new, and serving as a meditation on the power and transmutability of place.

Painter Jules de Balincourt, whose work renders familiar places unfamiliar, has provided a haven in his Bushwick art space for artists to experiment during an unforgiving economic climate. Cybele Lyle’s work manipulates and dismantles architecture through photographs, video, and installation, constructing her own space from the pieces. Ryan Lauderdale uses the Internet as an archive in order to reify discarded histories. Ryan McNamara’s performative lecture condenses disparate immersive experiences into a single space and time. Carolyn Salas’s post-minimalist sculptures playfully delineate positive and negative planes, concurrently activating and deactivating space for the viewer. Rodrigo Lobos Huber’s plaster tablets create microcosms out of disparate materials that, once united and flattened, form unlikely constellations. Emmy Catedral’s Amateur Astronomers Society of Voorhees hosts salons and walking tours that examine instances of human success and failure at measuring and ordering the universe. Denise Schatz gives art a portable existence within the pages of her artist’s books.

An artist book and publication designed by Denise Schatz and an accompanying website will provide opportunities for further engagement with each artist’s practice through essays, images, and interviews focusing on their sensitivity to place, both while at Hunter College and since graduation.

The exhibition’s public programming incorporates voices from the larger Hunter College MFA alumni community. A “reading room” installed within in the gallery will display alumni’s artist books including Denise Schatz’s Miniature Gardens collection, alumni’s catalogs, and related Hunter publications. Another Place will also feature performances and events by Ryan McNamara, Emmy Catedral with Rotem Linial’s Cinema Balash, and Ryan Lauderdale. See www.another–place.com for the full programming schedule.

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from September 18, 2014 to October 18, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-09-17 from 18:00 to 20:00

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