PAST EXHIBITIONS
 

  

noise carousel

June 18 - December 23, 2011
Reception 6-8pm Saturday, June 18

Sound travels through the ear in a spiral form, much like a spinning carousel. noise carousel explores the notion of sound as a sculptural form through fifteen artists' audio works made available in a ring of listening stations based on a carousel’s design. Each station is on wheels, permitting listeners to drift around the gallery while hearing audio compositions. The exhibition’s design reflects the momentum of a spinning carousel and literally radiates out to participating historic carousels in New York City that will broadcast select works as part of a public program.

Artists: Jill Auckenthaler, Karen Y. Chan, Paul Dickinson, Taylor Deupree and Christopher Willits, Draculatron, Nick Hallett, Jill Jichetti, Nina Katchadourian, Alison Knowles, Tara Mateik, Sarah Paul, Louie Rozier, John Thurber, Wu Tsang, Tamara Yadao.

noise carousel is made possible through a generous Innovation and Creativity grant from The Greenwall Foundation.

iced

June 18 - October 23, 2011
Reception 6-8pm Saturday, June 18

iced is a group exhibition of artists selected through an open-call that considers the seductive relationship artists have with materials in a culture increasingly mediated by virtual experiences. The slang use of iced connotes bejeweled or monolithic gestures. This summer show also acknowledges that sublime desire for cool relief from the heat.

Betty Bressi, Aaron Carpenter, Kasarian Dane, Ed Davin, Corey D'Augustine, Amanda Dumas-Hernandez, Matt Frieburghaus, Michael C Johnson, Zerek Kempf, Ben Knight, Rena Leinberger, Elisa Lendvay, Jonathan Leiter, Karen Lofgren, Viviane Rombaldi-Seppey, Tomas Ronse, Allyson Ross, Gabriel J Shuldiner.
 

Paul Moakley Vir Fidelis

June 22 - October 23, 2011
Reception 6 to 9pm Friday, July 8
Artist Talk: 2pm Saturday, August 13
Workshop: 2pm Saturday, September 24

Paul Moakley has created an in-depth chronicle of an all-boys catholic High School captured through large-format photographs and short films. The artist is a seasoned documentary photographer who recently began exploring time-based installation projects. Following the visual language of his photographic work, Moakley's auteur video projects are shot in a photographically composed style that incisively question prescribed gender roles, identity formation, and group mentality in teen-aged boys.

image: Vir Fidelis: Baseball Player with Eye Drops, 2011, C-print

Vir Fidelis is made possible in part by a DCA Premier Grant from the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.


 

AKWAABA: Weaving Unity between Bonwire and Staten Island
November 6, 2010 - May 1, 2011

AKWAABA, welcome in Ghanaian, is a multi-media presentation of indigenous Kente cloth and the art of weaving on a traditional loom built on Staten Island. The exhibition traces the history, origin and cultural significance of an extraordinary textile tradition that dates back to the seventeenth century. The unique story of how Bonwire weaving came to Staten Island is told through video and photographs that document a family of tradition bearers that recently immigrated to the area, which include Anthony Oti Kegya, Francis Marfo and Nana Adu-Bofour.

Bonwire, Ghana is the birthplace of the Kente cloth. Ghanaians often explain that, “Bonwire is to Kente cloth, as steel is to Pittsburgh.” One of the exhibition’s highlights is the loom built by Staten Island carpenter, David Riccardi, in collaboration with tradition bearers from Bonwire, Ghana.

Organized by Samuel Owusu-Sekyere, Staten Island Immigrant Council and Christopher J. Mulé, Folklorist, COAHSI/Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island.

Public Programs
Weaving Demonstration: Saturday, November 20
Weaving Demonstration: Saturday, December 4
Weaving Demonstration: Saturday, December 11
Weaving Demonstration: Saturday, December 18

Support for AKWAABA provided by a JPMorgan Chase Regrant in partnership with the COAHSI/Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island. Additional support provided by the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation. Programming support during the exhibit is made possible by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State’s 62 counties.



          

Don Porcella: Cave Dwellers
November 13, 2010 - May 1, 2011

Artist's Reception Saturday, November 13 from 3pm-5pm, Free

Public Program: 3pm, Saturday, March 12 How to Live as One Race a dialogue with Allecrop Trebor Nod, self-proclaimed extraterrestrial and Dr. Michael Byrd, Evolutionary Biologist.

An environmental installation that explores a multifaceted concept of ancient artists, art history, early inhabitants of Staten Island and extraterrestrial life. Cave Dwellers suggests a new mythology that reflects contemporary anthropologists understanding of early humans and their behavior. The sculptural environment investigates the fossil record and questions who we are and where we have come from. Are we smarter today? What happened along our evolutionary trail? What did we look like, and how did we behave? Porcella passion for a craft aesthetic is reflected in meticulously fabricated sculptural forms that include full-size figures, campfires and mythical creatures. Ambient audio plays an important role in enhancing viewers’ encounter with the prehistoric dwelling.

Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island

Christine Osinski: Navigating Historical Waters
November 13, 2010 - May 1, 2011

Artist's Reception Saturday, November 13 from 3pm-5pm, Free

The artist’s decade-long project New York Photographs includes landscape photography of islands unknown or forgotten by most New Yorkers. The Wooden Ship Graveyard photographs capture the artist’s fascination with the quiet geography of New York City. Thirteen silver-gelatin photographs of the environs of New York Harbor including Shooter’s Island will be presented. Shooter’s Island, a forty-three acre site off of Staten Island’s North Shore, is the main subject, was once a thriving shipyard that is now reclaimed by birds and small animals. Osinski began photographing the enchanted landscape in 1996 returning often to chronicle the deterioration of beached ships and the towering dry docks that once maintained them. Her images offer a haunting glimpse at New York Harbor’s hey day as the nineteenth century’s busiest port. Sites now overgrown and unrecognizable as major shipping yards are made accessible again through Osinski’s photographs. Wooden Ship Graveyard will be shown along with select works from her ongoing project New York Photographs whose subject is the archipelago of New York Harbor.

Supported, in part, by the

from the archive: Gayil Nalls
November 13, 2010 - May 1, 2011

Artist's Reception Saturday, November 13 from 3pm-5pm, Free

Curated by Sophia Lucas. An ongoing exhibition series that presents new video interviews with artists in conjunction with ephemera from the Newhouse’s archives to illustrate how support for emerging art impacts an artist’s practice.

HOPE-A-HOLIC February 13 – June 27, 2010

Curated by Patrick Grenier. Group exhibition of 19 artists that explores the use of delusional optimism and senselessness through installation, drawing, painting, video, performance and interactive works to sustain hope. Artists include: Daniel Bejar, Douglas Boatwright, Joseph Borelli, Mike Calway-Fagen, Zoe Chan, Jinkee Choi, Tim Clifford, Johannes De Young, William Graef, Tobin Hines, Tom Hughes, James Jaxxa, Jayson Keeling, Tina La Porta, Sarah McCann, Anne McGuire, Mustafa Maluka, Tattfoo Tan and Cody Vanderkaay.

 

from the archive: Polly Apfelbaum Feb 13 - Aug 29, 2010

Curated by Sophia Lucas. Drawings, video interviews, curator's notes and administrative ephemera. First in an ongoing series that recognizes the Center’s three-decade commitment to emerging art.
 

JAZZ LOFT: DAVID X. YOUNG September 24 – December 23, 2009

Described as, ”the center of the Jazz universe,” Young’s loft provided Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Miles Davis and Bill Evans among other legends a place to rehearse, jam and experiment from 1959 to 1965. The spirit of those years are reflected in Young’s drawings, paintings, films and album designs, which are being shown for the first time since the artist passed away in 2001. Special thanks to the Estate of David X. Young.

TODT HILL WASH SITE: NICHOLAS FEVELO Sept 24 – Dec 23, 2009

Imagined archaeological site that investigates the catastrophic flood that submerged Staten Island in 2113 as a result of 20th century global warming. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the COASHI/Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island.

HUGEunHUGE October 3 – December 23, 2009



Juried exhibition of 40 small works by Staten Island-based artists.

 

SHARECROPPER: LEAH GAUTHIER June 1 - August 23, 2009

Micro-farm grown in sculpture yard outside the Newhouse Gallery that included simultaneous growth in all 5 boroughs with cultural organizations such as Eyebeam, Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Lefferts Historic House. Beets, turnips and eggplants were harvested on September 13th and donated to a Staten Island food bank.
Project is archived at http://www.sharecropperart.org.
 

LEMURtron July 11 - August 23, 2009

Interactive installation by L.E.M.U.R. (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots) a Brooklyn-based group of artists and technologists who collaborate on robotic musical instruments. Founded in 2000, LEMUR creates unique, exotic, sculptural musical instruments which integrate robotic technology with high-tech interactive environments. LEMURtron is supported, in part, by a New Media grant from The Greenwall Foundation.

THREE TRADITIONS OF PAINTING June 11 - August 23, 2009

Staten Island-based painters Robert Civello, Max Spoerri and Yvonne Simons
explore figurative and abstract subjects in large-scale canvases.