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Audrey Hasen Russell, "Pieta" 2009, detail
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Katie Holten: Tree Museum
Sun Porch and along the Grand Concourse
June 21 – October 12, 2009 (not on view July 19 – August 1)
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. A selection of artifacts collected for this “Tree Museum” will be exhibited in Wave Hill’s Sun Porch and in the Bronx Museum of Art’s fall 2009 exhibition.
More information is available at: www.treemuseum.org
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The Muhheakantuck in Focus
Glyndor Gallery and Grounds
August 1 – November 29, 2009
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.
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Audrey Hasen Russell
Sunroom Project Space
August 1 – September 13, 2009
Meet the Artist: September 13, 2009
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
September 19 – November 1, 2009
Meet the Artist: October 4, 2009
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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John Morton: THE VOYAGE OUT (working title)
Sunroom Project Space
November 5 – November 29, 2009
John Morton’s 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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