CASTLE
GALLERY CELEBRATES MILESTONE SEASON WITH
R³:
Reading ‘Ritin ‘Rithmetic, 30 Years Later ,
If
I Could Speak to You: Paintings and Poems of Bruce Rosen,
AND
Repairing RNA
NEW ROCHELLE, NY, August 2005 -- This fall, The College of New Rochelle
Castle Gallery will celebrate 25 years of outstanding art with three
thought-provoking exhibits: R³:
Reading ‘Ritin ‘Rithmetic, 30 Years Later, If I Could Speak to You:
Paintings, Poems of Bruce Rosen (Mooney Center Gallery)
and Geraldine Ondrizek’s Repairing
RNA (Mooney Center Gallery) .
Opening Receptions for both R³: Reading ‘Ritin ‘Rithmetic, 30
Years Later, and If I Could
Speak to You: Paintings and Poems of Bruce Rosen exhibits are
scheduled on Sunday, September 18, at Castle Gallery from 2:00-4:00 PM
and in Mooney Center from 3:00-6:00 PM. There will be a gallery talk by
Joan Krawczyk, Independent Curator, at 4:30 PM in Mooney Center
Gallery. The reception for Geraldine Ondrizek’s Repairing RNA will
follow her visiting artist lecture in Romita Auditorium, scheduled on
Wednesday, October 19 at 6:30 PM. Receptions and exhibits are free and
open to the public.
Both galleries are located at CNR’s Main Campus at 29 Castle Place in
New Rochelle, NY 10805. Castle Gallery Hours: Tues & Wed, 10:00 am
to 8:00 pm, Thurs & Fri, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday,
12 noon to 4:00 pm. Castle Gallery is closed Mondays and major national
holidays. Photos and images are available upon request. For
additional information, tours, and directions to CNR, please call (914)
654-5423 or to click
here.
R³:
Reading ‘Ritin ‘Rithmetic, 30 Years Later
Castle Gallery; On display September 11 through November 13, 2005
Reading, writing, and arithmetic -- the 3 R’s -- have
introduced many children to the vast world of discovery, knowledge and
learning. The 3 R’s have also figured prominently in art practice over
the last thirty years. The Castle Gallery’s exhibition will
spotlight the work of 13 artists who use reading (text or text-based),
writing (language and words), and arithmetic (numbers and systems) as
their medium for art making and examine the intersection of art and
post/modern experience. The artists on view in R³ provide a
sampling of this perspective.
Going back to the basics but now with a broader and less didactic
purpose, they will transform the Castle Gallery into a dynamic space of
lively dialogue and critical discourse that invites the viewer to
realize once again how relevant reading, writing and arithmetic are to
today’s world.
Utilizing conceptual practices first pioneered by
artists in the 1970's, R³ will take a fresh look at how, thirty
years later, contemporary artists continue to use the "3 Rs" in their
paintings, sculpture, mixed media, and book-based art. The curator for
this exhibition, Susan M. Canning, is also a Professor of Art History
at CNR. The featured artists include: Joe Amrhein, Leslie Brack, Jacob
El Hanani, Jan Estep, Lee Etheredge IV, Richard Humann, Ruth Liberman,
Bruce Pearson, Adam Pendleton, Kay Rosen, Mira Schor, Karen Shaw, and
Michael Waugh.
If
I Could Speak to You: Paintings and Poems of Bruce Rosen
Mooney Center Gallery
September 1 through September 26, 2005
A highly regarded and widely exhibited painter who was
recognized for his abstract works on paper and canvas, Rosen
(1931-1996) was also a poet and teacher of literature and the
humanities. The upcoming exhibition at CNR will juxtapose Rosen's
paintings and poems, spotlighting how they inform one another. The
exhibit's title was inspired by these lines from one of Rosen's poems,
"And if I could speak to you / I would tell you of other, unimaginable
beauties / As though I had never seen them." This exhibit is
curated by Maxine Rosen, Conservator, Estate of the Artist.
Repairing
RNA: An Installation by Geraldine Ondrizek
Mooney Center Gallery;
October 1 through October 26, 2005
Geraldine Ondrizek
is an Associate Professor of Art at Reed College.
Her installation piece “Repairing RNA” is based on an embroidery loom
used since the 17th century is South East Asia. The work is comprised
of a 16-foot table and 6 stools for potential sewers, as well as spools
that hang over head for sowing. The image on the silk is an RNA gel
from a pregnant woman and her child, indicating a genetically inherited
disease the child will have when born. Ondrizek explains that
repairing genetically inherited conditions through gene splicing is
possibility in the near future and “In reproducing the image of this
Gel and placing it on a loom to be continually sown, I am
metaphorically repairing the RNA.”
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The first Catholic
college for women in New York State,
The
College of New Rochelle was founded in 1904 by the Ursuline Order.
Today,
it comprises the all-women School of Arts & Sciences, and three
schools
which admit women and men: the School of New Resources (for adult
learners),
the School of Nursing and the Graduate School. The main campus of
the College is located in lower Westchester County, 16 miles north of
New York City. The College maintains six other campus locations
in New York
City. Visit the College’s website at www.cnr.edu
