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Spring 2002 Schedule Larry
Rinder - Whitney Biennial 2002 Before his arrival at the Whitney in 2000, Rinder was the Director of the CCAC Institute at the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco and Oakland. He was also the curator for 20th-century art and MATRIX at the Berkeley Art Museum. Rinder served as an advisor to both the 1991 and 1993 Whitney Biennials and was among the six co-curators selected to organize the 2000 Whitney Biennial. When: Tuesday, March 12 Where: The New School University, 66 West 12th Street(between 5th & 6th Avenues) Time:
6:30 p.m. The five artists-selected jointly by Larry Rinder and Tom Eccles-are all New Yorkers who have been commissioned by Public Art Fund to make dynamic new work uniquely suited for specific sites within the inimitable setting of Central Park. Located at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Keith Edmier's Emil Dobbelstein and Henry Drope, 1944 is a seemingly conventional war memorial to his grandfathers, who both served in the Second World War. Kiki Smith's Sirens and Harpies, based upon the deadly temptresses and voracious monsters in Greek mythology, will greet visitors at the gateway to the Central Park Zoo. The multidisciplinary artist Kim Sooja has created a vibrantly colorful installation of Korean bed coverings for the Leaping Frog Café. Roxy Paine's spectacular Bluff is a fifty-foot high tree made of brilliantly reflective stainless steel. And, beneath the bridge of Central Park Lake, Brian Tolle's Waylay, is a series of scattered splashes which appear to be caused by someone skipping a rock across the water. When: Tuesday, March 26 Where: The New School University, 66 West 12th Street(between 5th & 6th Avenues) Time:
6:30 p.m. Vik
Muniz Described as "low-tech" illusions, the images in Muniz' photographs draw attention to our methods of observation. Muniz' detailed pictures of the floor tile MoMA -New York, are shot at such close range that at first, they appear like images of a starry night. Interested in the way our eyes can play tricks on our minds, his work produces a short-circuit effect once the viewer realizes what the images actually are and/or what materials are used to create them. Muniz explores the borders between reality and artifice and the import placed on sight. Born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1961, Muniz has lived and worked in New York City since the mid-1980s. He began his career as a sculptor, eventually turning his attention exclusively to photography. He has had solo exhibitions at the Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, and the International Center of Photography, New York. His work has also been included in various exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial 2000, the Corcoran Gallery of Art's 46th Biennial Exhibition: Media/Metaphor in Washington DC, and The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. When: Tuesday, April 9 Where: The New School University, 66 West 12th Street(between 5th & 6th Avenues) Time:
6:30 p.m. Gregory
Crewdson Born in 1962 in Brooklyn, Crewdson received his MFA from Yale University in 1988, where he now teaches photography. Crewdson's work has been exhibited widely including solo-shows at the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Luhring Augustine, New York, and Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, North Carolina. His work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum among others. When: *Thursday, May 23 Where: The New School University, 66 West 12th Street(between 5th & 6th Avenues) Time:
6:30 p.m.
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