Past Shows From 2012-2013
Fine Art Senior Exhibition
May 3–11, 2013
The Fine Art Senior Exhibition features the work of fine art majors in their final semester of study at York College. The students present their final bodies of work, showcasing the skills and techniques they have acquired at York College before leaving our program to pursue careers in the arts. The seniors work collectively during their final semester to refine their creative vision and learn to present themselves and their work in a professional manner. This process culminates with the Senior Presentations and Senior Exhibition. The presentations allow the seniors to deliver a professional lecture on their current work before a large public audience while the exhibition requires them to make aesthetic choices in how to best present their work in a gallery setting.
Graphic Design Senior Exhibition
April 19-26, 2013
The Graphic Design Senior Exhibition features the work of graphic design majors in their final semester of study at York College. The students present their senior projects, showcasing the skills and techniques they have acquired at York College before leaving our program to pursue careers as professional graphic designers. The seniors work collectively during their final semester to refine their creative vision and learn to present themselves and their work in a professional manner. This process culminates with the Senior Presentations and Senior Exhibition. The presentations allow the seniors to deliver a professional lecture on their current work before a large public audience while the exhibition requires them to make aesthetic choices in how to best present their work in a gallery setting. During the opening reception, the senior designers also show their final design portfolios.
Annual Juried Student Exhibition
March 21-April 9, 2013
The Annual Juried Student Exhibition features selected work from students taking courses in fine art and graphic design at York College. Students submit their works of fine art and graphic design for consideration and guest jurors select works that are exceptional, represent our program, and exhibit well together. This year our jurors are Paul Sahre, who will make graphic design selections, and Moe Brooker, who will make fine art selections.
Paul Sahre is a graphic designer, illustrator, lecturer, author, and teaches graphic design at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Sahre established his New York studio in 1997. The balance he strikes between commercial and personal projects is evident in the physical layout of his workspace: part design studio, part silkscreen lab, part classroom. In one room he designs and prints posters (some of which are in the permanent collection at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum) for various off-off Broadway theaters, while in the other room he is busy designing book covers for authors such as Rick Moody, Chuck Klosterman, Ben Marcus and Ernest Hemingway.
Paul Sahre Lecture
March 12, 2013
Graphic designer, illustrator, lecturer, educator and author Paul Sahre established his New York studio in 1997. While consciously maintaining a small office, Sahre has nevertheless built a large presence in American graphic design. The balance he strikes between commercial and personal projects is evident in the physical layout of his workspace: part design studio, part silkscreen lab, part classroom. In one room he designs and prints posters (some of which are in the permanent collection at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum) for various off-off Broadway theaters, while in the other room he is busy designing book covers for authors such as Rick Moody, Chuck Klosterman, Ben Marcus and Ernest Hemingway. Sahre is also a frequent visual contributor to The New York Times. He is the author of Leisurama Now: The Beach House for Everyone, 1964-_______, a loving look at a short-lived product of early ‘60s consumer optimism: affordable middle-class summer homes. Sahre received his BFA and MFA from Kent State and teaches graphic design at the School of Visual Arts. He lectures extensively all over the world. He is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale.
Fall 2012 Senior Exhibition
December 7–18, 2012
This biannual exhibition features the work of students from the Division of Art in their final semester of study at York College. Fine Art and Graphic Design majors present thematically cohesive bodies of work showcasing the skills and techniques they have acquired at York College before leaving our program to pursue careers as professional artists and designers. The students work collectively during their final semester to refine their creative vision and learn to present themselves and their work in a professional manner. This process culminates with the Senior Presentations and Senior Exhibition. The presentations allow the seniors to deliver a professional lecture on their current work before a large public audience while the exhibition requires them to make aesthetic choices in how to best present their work in a gallery setting. This event is open to the public and will be followed by an opening reception for the Senior Exhibition in the Wolf Hall lobby. Awards will be presented at 6:30 p.m. in the Cora Miller Gallery.
Gordon Parks: Crossroads
October 4–November 14, 2012
This year marks the centennial of the birth of Gordon Parks, a poet, novelist, composer, musician, filmmaker, and seminal figure of twentieth century photography. Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas in 1912. He purchased his first camera in a pawn shop in 1938 and taught himself how to use it, beginning a career that included working for the Farm Security Administration (F.S.A.), Vogue magazine, and Life Magazine, where he broke the color barrier to become the first African American staff photographer and writer for what was then the world’s most prominent photojournalism publication. Parks was a humanitarian and an activist and his work often championed social justice and equality. While he is primarily known for his photography, Parks also wrote and directed several films, includingShaft, a major success. He also played jazz piano, composed and choreographed a ballet, published several books of poetry, and wrote a novel. This exhibition features Parks’ most famous photographs such as American Gothic, Washington D.C., The esteemed photographer and art historian Dr. Deborah Willis will lecture about Parks’ work on October 4 at 7pm. There will be a reception with refreshments preceding the lecture at 6:30pm in the Wolf Hall lobby.
Hasan Elahi: An Undisclosed Location
October 4–November 14, 2012
Hasan Elahi is currently Associate Professor of Art at University of Maryland where he is Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity in the Honors College. He is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been presented in numerous exhibitions at venues such as SITE Santa Fe, Centre Georges Pompidou, Sundance Film Festival, Kassel Kulturbahnhof, The Hermitage, and at the Venice Biennale. Elahi was recently invited to speak about his work at the Tate Modern, Einstein Forum, the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and at TED Global. His awards include grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, Art Matters Foundation, and a Ford Foundation/Phillip Morris National Fellowship. His work is frequently in the media and has been covered by The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, and has appeared on Al Jazeera, Fox News, and on The Colbert Report. In 2010, he was an Alpert/MacDowell Fellow and in 2009, was Resident Faculty at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He currently lives outside of Washington, DC roughly equidistant from the CIA, FBI, and NSA headquarters.
Art! Music! Politics! Satire!
with artist/designer Robbie Conal and singer/songwriter Roy Zimmerman
October 17, 2012
Robbie Conal and Roy Zimmerman promote social/political change through biting satire, Zimmerman with his guitar and witty lyrics and Conal with his wheat paste and posters featuring grotesque depictions of political figures. Conal is a poster artist living in Los Angeles whose work has been featured in numerous publications, including Time,Newsweek, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times. He recently appeared as himself along with Shepard Fairey and other guerrilla artists on the television show The Simpsons. Roy Zimmerman is a singer/songwriter from Marin County, California. Joni Mitchell says, “Roy’s lyrics move beyond poetry to achieve perfection.” The Los Angeles Times says, “Zimmerman displays lacerating wit and keen awareness of society’s foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer.” Zimmerman’s songs have been heard on HBO and Showtime and he has shared stages with George Carlin, Bill Maher, Dennis Miller, Bill Clinton and kd Lang among others. He has done several shows with The Pixies’ Frank Black.
Speaking of Gordon Parks: Deborah Willis
October 4, 2012
Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is the Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment as a University Professor with the College of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies. She was a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and Fletcher Fellow, and a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, as well as the 1996 recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation award. She has pursued a dual professional career as an art photographer and as one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography and curator of African American culture. Professor Willis has just received the honored educator award at the Society for Photographic Education.
Exhibitions of her work include: A Sense of Place, Frick, University of Pittsburgh, 2005; Regarding Beauty, University of Wisconsin, 2003; Embracing Eatonville, Light Works, Syracuse, NY, 2003-4; HairStories, Scottsdale Contemporary Art Museum, Scottsdale, AZ 2003-4; The Comforts of Home, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, 1999; Re/Righting History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, 1999; Memorable Histories and Historic Memories, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1998; Cultural Baggage, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1995.
Tyler Starr: Lover's Leap
August 24–September 21, 2012
Tyler Starr received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota. In 1998, Starr was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland. In March 2011, he graduated with a PhD in Studio Arts from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts, where he was a recipient of the Japanese Ministry of Education Scholarship. His work has been featured in numerous exhibits including the International Biennial of Contemporary Prints-Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Liège, Belgium, the 2nd Bangkok Triennial International Print and Drawing Exhibition, and the Tokyo Wonderwall 2009 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Japan. Tyler was the recipient of a 2011 Grant Wood Fellowship at the University of Iowa where he developed a new body of artwork using skills and concepts learned in Japan, applied to American subject matter. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Davidson College in North Carolina.
Miki Kato-Starr: Message from Japan
August 24–September 21, 2012
Miki Kato-Starr was born in 1975 in Sweden and raised in Japan. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota in Printmaking. In 2005 she was an Artist in Residency at Art Studio Itsukaichi in Tokyo. Miki has exhibited internationally in Canada, Estonia, Holland, Japan, Poland, and Turkey. This will be her first solo exhibition in the United States.
“Art is a visual voice that can communicate without actual language. I am fluent in three spoken languages that lead to the exploring of cultural boundaries in my works. Born in Sweden to a Japanese father and a Polish mother and raised in Japan, my childhood was a constant journey of searching for identity. My installation for this exhibition reflects this feeling of displacement. The folded paper boats arranged on the floor are made from the paper used by movers to wrap my belongings when I left Japan for the U.S. last fall to escape the threat of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. My artwork has changed as a result of this accident because my life has changed. I need to address current problems in Japan in my work in an effort to learn from them.”
— Miki Kato-Starr
Drive By Press
September 6–September 7, 2012
Drive By Press was created to educate and share the contemporary practice of printmaking with students and art audiences across America. It began with an etching press in the back of a truck and a collection of 200 contemporary American prints but has evolved to three mobile operations, over 260 schools visited, and 250,000 miles traveled. DBP now boasts the largest known contemporary printmaking collection. Included are works from professional artists, print publishers, professors, graduate and undergraduate students in print media. The goal of DBP is to demonstrate the power of the multiple, educating students in various techniques, and shedding light on current trends in printmaking – the things that are happening right now across America. DBP loves the opportunity to share the prints, techniques, artists, and stories from the road with students. DBP is a self- funded endeavor solely surviving on small visiting artists honorariums from schools and from the sales of printing wood blocks on paper and t-shirts.
Second Annual Typorama
June 11–July 5, 2012
Do you think typography is about boring newspapers, snooty monogramed towels and annoying web banners?
Change your perception by checkingout the Second Annual Typorama Exhibition in the York College Galleries.
Conceived and created by the Graphic Design program's Typography II students at YCP, these experimental type-driven projects push the boundaries of traditional typographic form. Whether utilitarian or frivolous, funny or serious, flat or dimensional, each project will make you think about these overly-familiar forms in new ways.
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Celebrating Mental Health Recovery
May 17–May 31, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 17, 5:00pm: Wolf Hall Lobby
Candlelight Vigil: Thursday, May 17, 6:00pm: Gallery
Awards Ceremony: Friday, May 18, 1:00pm: Gallery
Fine Art Senior Exhibition
April 13–21, 2012, York College Galleries
April 27–May 8, 2012, Marketview Arts! (Downtown York)
The Fine Art Senior Exhibition features the work of fine art majors in their final semester of study at York College. The students present their final bodies of work, showcasing the skills and techniques they have acquired at York College before leaving our program to pursue careers in the arts. The seniors work collectively during their final semester to refine their creative vision and learn to present themselves and their work in a professional manner. This process culminates with the Senior Presentations and Senior Exhibition. The presentations allow the seniors to deliver a professional lecture on their current work before a large public audience while the exhibition requires them to make aesthetic choices in how to best present their work in a gallery setting.
Annual Juried Student Exhibition
March 15–April 3, 2012
The Annual Juried Student Exhibition features selected work from students taking courses in fine art and graphic design at York College. Students submit their works of fine art and graphic design for consideration and guest jurors select works that are exceptional, represent our program, and exhibit well together. This year our jurors were Ellen Lupton, who made graphic design selections, and Rena Hoisington, who made fine art selections.
D. Lance Vickery and Jenny K. Hager: Intimate Duet
January 24–February 22, 2012
“The contemporary sculptor is on a continuous journey, searching always for one sculptural component's perfect counterpoint - a soulmate in form for this small wooden element, a companion to the linear quality of a steel cable, or the quintessential material that will complement the warmth of a bronze cast. This exhibition is a duet - a celebration of two entities uniting in harmony. Vickery and Hager (sculptors and husband and wife) strive to work in concert with each other through the vocabulary of materials and the language of sculpture.” – Jenny K. Hager.
Jenny K. Hager: Flight Lab
January 24–February 22, 2012
“The inventor who works in this laboratory is a pseudo-scientist who is interested in achieving flight through the mechanics of swimming. Through the exploration of ideas, sketches, and models, the inventor studies possible methods of achieving flight by these means. Flight Lab references the dream and the tool used to achieve flight, the flight suit. Upon entering the dark gallery, the viewer sees a video projection of someone wearing a white form-fitting suit and white aviator goggles, flying through empty space. The suit has webbed feet and webbed hands.
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