Disegno-in-Motion is a group exhibition that features contemporary artists who explore animation as an extension of a traditional plastic arts process, as well as animators who walk the experimental edge where the ‘illusion of life’ succumbs to the allure of the infinite possibilities of the next frame.
Disegno, a term for visual thinking derived from the Italian Renaissance, suggests that all the plastic arts grow fundamentally out of the language of drawing. Drawing most intimately lays bare the artist’s thought process, which may be shaped through the material languages of yarn, paint, clay, and Photoshop. All artworks are time capsules that preserve the artist’s mind and their visual experiments which ultimately yield the work.
The time-based works on display are accompanied by objects used in the making of the animations. These include monumental puppets from a stop-motion performance with a human actor, canvases used in a hand-painted animation, a weaving documented in a time-lapse video, crayon drawings that were mapped into C.G. game environments, storyboards, sketches, and stills.
In addition to the main Hewitt gallery exhibition, several multi-channel works will be on display in the Digital Immersion Room in MMC’s new Judith Mara Carson Center for Visual Arts.
Artists in the exhibition include: Aryel René Jackson, Erma Fiend, Ezra Wube, Jeremy Couillard, Joseph Silver, Lorin Roser, Mari Jaye Blanchard, Matt Bollinger, Matt Richtards, Mike Estabrook, Scott Kiernan, Tadashi Moriyama, and Vandana Jain. Curated by Brian Zegeer with Hallie Cohen
Exhibition runs October 16 - December 5, 2023
Participating artists: Craig Banholzer, Sally Bozzuto, Shannon Broder, Hallie Cohen, Elisabeth Condon, Annette Cords, Millie Falcaro, Julia Gran, Carl Gunhouse, Jim Holl, Timothy Hull, Judy Mannarino, Allison Maletz, Pedro Ramirez, John Ruggeri, Beth Shipley, Brian Zegeer
Exhibition dates: September 17 – October 26, 2017
Psychogeography explores nine artists’ responses to place [and displacement] in real and imagined spaces. From the psychic to the specific, from recollection to recording, the works in this exhibit recreate the power of place in the human imagination. (April 1 – May 1, 2019)
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Participating artists: Craig Banholzer, Sally Bozzuto, Deborah Brass, Shannon Broder, Hallie Cohen, Elisabeth Condon, Annette Cords, Marianna Ellenberg, Millie Falcaro, E Genevieve, Julia Gran, Carl Gunhouse, Jim Holl, Allison Maletz, Judy Mannarino, Djavan Nascimento, Pedro Ramirez, JJ Reddington, Beth Shipley, Virginia Wagner, Scott Williams, Brian Zegeer (September 17 – October 25, 2018)
In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Bedford Hills College Program (BHCP), a unique exhibition of artworks based on Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville, has been created by the incarcerated women artists of the BHCP. (October 30 – December 6, 2017)
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The exhibit runs from June 3 - September 12, 2017.
Artists explore the meaning of personal and shared space in this exhibit in the Hewitt Gallery of Art.
The exhibition runs from October 31 – December 1, 2016