The Gallatin Galleries opened in March 2009. The galleries are located in the Gallatin Building at 715 Broadway, entrance at 1 Washington Place. The main gallery is on the ground floor facing Washington Place with other gallery spaces on the 4th, 5th and 6th floors.
It is the goal of the Gallatin Galleries to engage contemporary social issues through a broad range of contemporary art, documents and events.
We look forward to your suggestions, thoughts and comments.
Current
Fall 2009 Opening of the Gallatin Galleries
Friday September 25 from 6-8
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6th Floor Gallery
Elliot Barowitz "Summer Pictures"
These nine works on paper are made with water-color, gouache, colored pencils, pastels, ink, various collage, and photomontage materials, with photographic acrylic gel transfers images that were gleaned from The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker Magazine.
5th Floor Gallery
Cecily Upton Bike Polo Photos
Master's Thesis show of photos documenting the international sport of Bicycle Polo. The images include portraits taken of players from around the world and photographs taken by bike polo players representing their experiences with the sport.
4th floor Gallery
Marguerite Day "futr-scapes" Paintings
Gallatin Student Projects from Donna Goodman's Classes
This exhibition presents excerpts from several outstanding projects created by Gallatin students in architecture, urban planning, and green design courses taught by Donna Goodman, an architect, who has taught at Gallatin for many years.
Ground Floor Gallery
Beatriz Ramos "Nude"
A stop motion animation. The exhibition will contain the paintings, photos and sculptures used to make the video as well as a stop motion station to create your own stop motion animation.
The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Begonia Colomar "Dendral" Video installation
Dendral is an atmospheric film that captures the visceral power of nature. Effected entirely in camera, the soft vignetting and aureate color create a hypnotic dance between trees, fog and wind.
Abstracted sounds add a haunting aural quality.
Past
Phurba Namgay: Buddhist Painting from Bhutan
May 7 - August 27, 2009
Opening Reception Thursday May 7, 2009 6-8PM
The Art of Bhutanese Thangkas
The idealized image of Buddha in a meditative pose is both a work of art and a tool for meditation.
Thangka painting, like Mahayana Buddhism, came to Bhutan via Tibet with Padmasambavha or Guru Rimpoche in the 8th century. The art of Bhutanese Thangka painting has changed very little over the centuries, and painters make their Thangkas much as they did so many centuries ago. It is painstaking, slow work, and the great painters of Bhutan can take months to complete a single Thangka.
Material Behavior
May 7 - June 4, 2009
Opening Reception Thursday May 7, 2009 6-8PM
1 Washington Place (at Broadway, 5th Floor)
Curated by Emily Gowen and Amy McCullaugh
- Featuring works by:
- Stephen Irwin
- Hendrik Kerstens
- Ryan Pfluger
- Matthew Salacuse
- Peter Haakon Thompson
- Robin Williams
- Stephen Wilson
Material Behavior sheds light on the complex issues surrounding the relationship between who we are and what we use within the context of today's consumer culture. Throughout the past century, material products and consumer goods have increasingly come to saturate our daily existence; moreover, the way in which we purchase and consume such products has become intrinsically intertwined with our identity structure. In a world where people have become so dependent on material goods, one must ask: to what degree has this dependency begun to obscure our unadulterated selves? And what happens to us as individuals, now bound by the products we've adopted as extensions of our own beings?
More info at: www.materialbehavior.com
Moving Money: Art, Capital and the Dematerialization of Value
March 6 - 26, 2009
Moving Money probes the questions on the minds of many in the midst of the market's free fall and the ongoing economic uncertainty: Where did the money go? Was it ever there at all? The invisibility of today's monetary world has become troublingly apparent. We do not "see" our money. It has been dematerialized and turned into an abstraction. While market makers have been using this abstraction to multiply profit, artists have been addressing these questions concretely by using money as both subject matter and raw material, literally and metaphorically, challenging its abstract value. Moving Money brings together artists whose work tries to make visible the abstracting tendencies of our monetary system and our relation to it.
More info at http://movingmoney.org/
