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Cece Cole: Knots and Conceits
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Sunroom Project Space
| March 3 – April 12, 2009
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Cece Cole re-imagines the sunroom as a fantastical laboratory filled with intentionally lo-tech and ultimately futile “experiments.” Working on-site, Cole builds on her fascination with science, technology, weather, stellar skies and unexplained phenomena to examine the natural surroundings of the Sunroom.
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Steven Millar
Sunroom Project Space
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Sunroom Project Space
| April 18 – May 31, 2009
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Combining his interests in art, architecture, and urban planning, Steven Millar constructs a sprawling sculptural model of Wave Hill and its location within the Riverdale neighborhood. Working from aerial photographs and archival research, Millar abstracts the neighborhood’s topography, evoking a complex understanding of what defines a community.
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Arbores Venerabiles
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Glyndor Gallery
| March 3 – July 19, 2009
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Wave Hill is celebrating the “2009 Year of the Trees” by inviting artists to create drawings and paintings based on – or in response to – trees in Wave Hill’s collection. Artists include: Joel Adas, Rebecca Allan, Sandra Allen, Joan Backes, Isabel Bigelow, Emily Brown, Diane Carr, Jill Lear, Andrew Millner, Stas Orlovski, Ilene Sunshine, and Amy Talluto.
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Janelle Iglesias
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Sunroom Project Space
| June 6 – July 19, 2009
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Janelle Iglesias creates an immense, intricately-adorned sculpture in reference to the ornate nests of the bowerbird. Like her avian muse, Iglesias collects discarded materials for the project from Wave Hill and its immediate vicinity, thereby transforming the unwanted into something distinctly beautiful.
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Audrey Hasen Russell
Sunroom Project Space
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Sunroom Project Space
| August 1 – September 13, 2009
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Audrey Hasen Russell constructs large-scale sculptures that engage Wave Hill’s landscape, visible from the Sunroom windows. She incorporates kitsch objects like Depression-era glassware and astro-turf into her work, suggesting a distant nostalgic notion of the bygone.
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Mauro Zamora
Sunroom Project Space
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Glyndor Gallery
| September 19 – November 1, 2009
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Inspired by nature’s ability to persevere under even the most unlikely circumstances, Mauro Zamora exhibits a new series of paintings that feature imagery of nature thriving in the midst of densely-developed urban areas. The paintings, mounted on signpost-like structures, reference the imposition of highway billboards on the landscape.
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Katie Holten: Tree Museum
Along the Grand Concourse
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Until January 3, 2010
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Katie Holten’s new, temporary public artwork along the Grand Concourse celebrates its street trees and highlights the Concourse’s influence on the changing neighborhood. The project includes an audio tour and a series of displays along the 4.5 mile boulevard.
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John Morton and Jacqueline Shatz: THE VOYAGE OUT
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Glyndor Gallery
| November 5 – November 29, 2009
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This music box-based installation is a sonic and visual meditation on Darwin's journey of exploration. It incorporates spoken text, music boxes, field recordings, computer sound manipulation, and a kinetic and collaged model of the HMS Beagle. The collaboration is housed in an antique-style museum vitrine, activated (sonically and kinetically) by visitors turning the music box keys.
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The Muhheakantuck in Focus
Glyndor Gallery and Grounds
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Glyndor Gallery
| August 1 – November 29, 2009
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Henry Hudson’s arrival 400 years ago prefaced the displacement of numerous native peoples from the shores of the Muhheakantuck, the “river that flows both ways.” Contemporary visual artists will develop projects that explore the native people’s engagement with the river, both before and after Hudson’s arrival on its shores. Artists include Laura Anderson Barbata, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Lorenzo Clayton, Peter Edlund, Nicholas Galanin, Edgar Heap of Birds, Melanie Printup Hope, Maria Hupfield, G. Peter Jemison, Jason Lujan, Alan Michelson, Anna Tsouhlarakis, William R. Wilson.
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Illuminating Nature:
Selections from Wave Hill’s Art Workshops
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Wave Hill House
| November 27, 2009—February 28, 2010
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Wave Hill House radiates with a selection of the outstanding work produced in our year-round art workshops for adults and families. Adult participants include: Beverly Barker, Kim Campi, Jenny Chin, Leslie Concannen, Shirley de Leon, Katherine Desmond, Ruth Hurd, Jerome Levkov, Carol Mangis, Trish Mayo, Agnes Murray, Alexandra Patz, Kathy Pavlick, Lucille Peskin, Sheldon Reich, Clarice Robinson, Linda Rubenstein, Sarah Schattschneider, Frida Sterenberg, Linda Stern, Howard Tarragon, Kristina Thorstenson, and John Walker. |
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Prints from Lincoln Center / List Art Collection
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Glyndor Gallery
| November 27, 2009 –January 17, 2010
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In support of Lincoln Center’s 50th Anniversary, Wave Hill is exhibiting five prints from the List Art Poster and Print Program. Since 1962 this program has produced distinctive prints by prominent visual artists that engage its performing arts audiences with contemporary art. The prints on view at Wave Hill by noted artists Vija Celmins, Glenn Ligon, Robert Long, Wolf Kahn and Donald Sultan were selected because of an intrinsic connection with nature. Prints are available for sale through the Wave Hill Shop and will benefit both Wave Hill and Lincoln Center. |
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Winter Workspace Program
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Glyndor Gallery
| January 4—March 21, 2010
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While Glyndor Gallery is closed this winter, it will be transformed into an artist workspace for seven visual artists to develop new work or pursue a particular project using Wave Hill’s exceptional garden and woodland settings as a source conductive to the creative process. With a winter focus on the Hudson River, the artists will engage with ideas about the river. The artists selected include Susan Benarcik, Liz Burrow, Kent Henricksen , Robyn Love, Rita MacDonald, Eve Mosher and Anne-Katrin Spiess.
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House Study/Handmade
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Glyndor Gallery
| March 5-April 18, 2010
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On display at Wave Hill House are over 40 hats created by Wave Hill visitors as part of Robyn Love’s project. Twice a week in January and February, Robyn opened her Winter Workspace studio to the public to card, spin, and knit wool that Robyn dyed using natural materials. 50 skeins were created and given to visitors to knit or felt a hat that would be exhibited here.
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Sunroom Project Space
Rita MacDonald
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Glyndor Gallery
| April 3 —May 16, 2010
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Working on-site during her residency at Wave Hill this winter, Rita MacDonald developed a project that explores her interest in decorative patterning. This wall-paper based installation uses repetition and optical illusion to disorient the viewer and heighten the visual experience of the space.
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The Big Draw at Wave Hill
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Wave Hill Grounds
| Sat, May 15, 2010
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Wave Hill and The Drawing Center co-host a day of drawing activities for all ages, led by artists Pat Steir and Jason Middlebrook. Use drawing as a chance to slow down and relate to your city and community in a different way. Two sessions will take place. All ages welcome. Free with admission to the grounds.
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