SUMMER EXHIBITIONS
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE HCCC FOUNDATION ART COLLECTION
Julia Child by Bonnie Schiffman
Curated by Michelle Vitale
June 13 - July 31
Hudson County Community College Department of Cultural Affairs is proud to present a special summer exhibition highlighting the work of 18 renowned artists from the College's Foundation Art Collection. Some of the artists have also been featured in the world spanning The Museum Project. The exhibit will be on view from June 13 through July 31, at the College’s Dineen Hull Gallery. The event is open to the public and there is no charge for admission.
Featured artists include John Chamberlain, Darryl Curran, Edward S. Curtis, Robert Fichter, Suda House, Eti Jacobi, Mickey Mathis, Heidi McFall, Judy Mensch, Tracey Moffatt, Nancy Scheinman, Bonnie Schiffman, Jacqueline Spellens, Ann Sperry, Robert Von Sternberg, Melanie Walker, Todd Walker, and Nancy Webber. The exhibition has been curated by Michelle Vitale, Director of Cultural Affairs. This exhibition was made possible by donations from the generous HCCC Foundation Art Collection donors.
In 2012 The Museum Project originated as an association of distinguished American artists desiring to express their appreciation for the obvious direct and indirect career benefits derived as university professors and/or gallery artists from the public institutions that were supportive of, and promoted, photography as a fine art. To date The Museum Project has donated 3,925 photographs to the permanent collections of 143 museums or university museums, 10 libraries with special collections of art, and nine municipal or hospital foundation collections in 49 states, Washington, D.C., Australia, Canada, France and Great Britain. They are now in their fifth and final phase of the project with an inventory exceeding 300 separate images created by the 13 presently participating artists.
The Hudson County Community College (HCCC) Foundation Art Collection was founded in 2006 to coincide with the initiation of the College’s Fine Arts studies program. The Collection is made possible thanks to the generosity of donors and affords HCCC students, faculty, and staff – as well as members of the community – with opportunities to view and enjoy the works. It also provides meaningful points of reference and inspiration. The Foundation Art Collection includes more than 1,000 works in ranging mediums from painting and sculpture to photographs, American craft pottery, and ephemera.
In 2010, upon the hiring of Dr. Andrea Siegel as the HCCC Foundation Art Collection Coordinator, there were 25 artworks installed around the campus. Eight years later, there are over 1,000 works in every public corridor in every building of both Journal Square and North Hudson campuses. HCCC President Dr. Glen Gabert’s vision was to build a collection that reflected the extraordinary diversity of the Hudson County community. Corridors of work by noted American and local artists have been curated into focused areas of art from various cultures including art of the African Diaspora, contemporary Hispanic art, and contemporary Japanese art. For an up to date guide of all the works installed on both campuses, visit www.hccc.edu/foundationartcollection.
John Chamberlain was born in 1927 in Rochester, Indiana, and died in 2011 in New York. During his lifetime, John Chamberlain was perhaps best known for his distinctive metal sculptures constructed from discarded automobile body parts and other industrial detritus, which he began making in the late 1950s. His singular method of putting these elements together led to his inclusion in the paradigmatic exhibition The Art of Assemblage, at the Museum of Modern Art in 1961. Chamberlain's focus on discovered or spontaneous correlations between materials has prompted the interpretation of his work as a kind of three-dimensional Abstract Expressionism.
Darryl Curran has been active in the fine art photography field since 1965 as exhibitor, curator, juror and board member of several arts organizations. Curran's creative work is housed in major public collections and has been included in numerous important group shows such as Photography into Sculpture and Mirrors and Windows, Museum of Modern Art; Photography into Art, British Arts Council; Extending the Perimeters of Twentieth Century Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Photography and Art/Interactions since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art; among others. As president of the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS) he lead the effort to produce 10 Photographers/Olympic Images, a project sponsored by the Olympic Arts Festival and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Born near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis (February 16, 1868 – October 19, 1952) became one of America’s finest photographers and ethnologists. His gift for photography led him to an investigation of the Native Americans living on the Seattle waterfront. His portrait of Chief Seattle’s daughter, Princess Angeline, won Curtis the highest award in a photographic contest. Having become well-known for his work with the Indians, Curtis participated in the 1899 Harriman expedition to Alaska as one of two official photographers. From 1911-1914, Curtis also produced and directed a silent film based on the mythology of the Rawakiutl Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Curtis passed away in Several images by Curtis are on permanent view in the College’s Foundation Art Collection on the 4th floor of the Gabert Library Building located at 71 Sip Ave. www.edwardscurtis.com
Growing up in Sarasota, Florida, Robert Fichter was intrigued by the landscape of sculptural ruins that remained on Long Boat Key from John Ringling's pre-depression era attempt to recreate the Italian Renaissance. Fichter has produced etchings, lithographs, and photographs at the Visual Arts Research Institute, Arizona State University, and lithographs at the Tamarind Institute. He has also produced two books featuring computer-generated imagery: After Eden, published by the U.S.F. Art Galleries; and A-X Cavation (text by James Hugunin), published by University of Colorado, department of fine arts.
Recent photographic works on silk from Suda House’s Sanctuary series were selected by guest curator Kathryn Kanjo, the chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego for the exhibition - Renewed: A Short Story About the San Diego Public Library’s Visual Arts Program. This exhibition celebrated the opening of the new Central Library with a selection of artists who previously exhibited in the San Diego Public Library’s Visual Arts Program and whose practices continue to resonate: Faiya Fredman, Suda House, Jeff Irwin, Gail Roberts, Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Lynn Schuette, Ernest Silva and Vicki Walsh. www.sudahouse.com
Eti Jacobi is an Israeli visual artist who was born in 1961. Her early paintings demonstrated an unusual sensibility. Innocence, purity, and childishness are present in her works alongside eroticism and ethics, illustrated in a very different manner to previous manifestations of similar themes. Jacobi combines the fairytale mentality and the virtuosity of realization so that the spirit of animation imbues the paintings. She tries to release a fairy-like act, created by little devious picturesque tricks, or in the artist’s words: “My painting is the utmost degree of stuttering fairytales.” Jacobi has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including The Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv and the ART+TEXT Budapest. She has received the Jacques and Eugénie O’Hana Prize for Young Israeli Artist and the Minister of Education, Culture, and Sport Artists Awards for Young Artists. www.etijacobi.com
Mickey Mathis is a long-time Jersey City resident and freelance photographer who studied at the International Center for Photography in New York City. His photos can be seen hanging in restaurants, printed in magazines and ads, both locally and internationally. Mickey Mathis: World Trade Views was a solo exhibition at Benjamin J. Dineen III & Dennis C. Hull Gallery in 2016. The work displayed was a timeline of the World Trade Center captured by Mathis from the western shore of the Hudson River over the course of 20 years. www.mickeymathisphotography.com
Heidi Draley McFall was born in Iowa City in 1974 and has been making art since childhood. A self-taught artist, McFall’s drawings have been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums including Annina Nosei Gallery, New York; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Paolo Curti Gallery, Milan, Italy; The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, and The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. McFall creates monumental pastel portraits that are haunting and endearing, personal and startling. Through heightened contrast in black and white, she invites us to explore the souls and personalities of those she depicts. There is an openness and volatility to her subjects that instills a closeness and sense of shared humanness between the artist, her viewers, and her subjects. www.heididraleymcfall.com
Judy Mensch has shown her prints throughout the United States and abroad. They are in public and private collections including the New York Public Library, New York Historical Society, Library of Congress, and Pfizer Inc. among others. She was awarded residencies to Yaddo, Ucross, Centrum voor Grafiek, Frans Masereel Centrum and a grant to study Japanese woodblock printing from Art Quest, the Nagasawa Art Park Pilot Project, in Awajishima, Japan.
Tracey Moffatt is an Australian artist, filmmaker, and photographer that has held over 100 solo exhibitions of her work in Europe, the United States, and Australia. Each series devolves upon an unwritten narrative – a story is implied, but never stated. Part of the artist’s project is to dismantle the conventions of storytelling, paradoxically by using artifice alone to tell her tales. Moffatt’s subjects are based on true stories told to the artist that touch on deep-seated, implacable issues, on the wounds that never heal. Indeed, her avowed ambivalence about being categorized as an Indigenous artist is at odds with her commitment to the fostering of Aboriginal culture, and to the central place of Indigeneity in her work. This seeming contradiction – an apparent moral inconsistency – is resolved in her dedication to the accoutrements of success: as much as Moffatt’s work is about pain, it is also about glamour.
Fusing beauty, meditation and personal experience, Nancy Scheinman creates thought provoking paintings. Layering is fundamental to her work, with patterns – printed, painted and incised. She layers time. Scheinman's use of acid washes and photo emulsion on sheets of copper suggest an alchemist's approach, producing shapes and textures out of which narratives emerge. Copper, canvas, bronze wire cloth and etched clear vinyl are nailed onto a wooden structure and painted. Her complex mixed media collages find an interconnection of past and future. Their obsessive embellishment lends them a gorgeous power and vibrant energy. www.scheinman.com
Over the past three decades Bonnie Schiffman has photographed hundreds of celebrities from George Burns to Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Child to Joni Mitchell, Muhammad Ali to Warren Buffet, all of whom have appeared in most U.S. and international magazines. The energy and spontaneity that Schiffman brings to her work is what gives rise to her unique images, we get a new and honest perspective of her subjects. Lauri Kratchovil, former photo director of Rolling Stone and InStyle magazine, said it best, “Bonnie doesn't put herself into the picture. She lets people do what they do so you don't get the celebrity, you get the person.” Schiffman has archived a collection of portraits whose importance lay not only in her capture of her signature style of photography, but also in their contribution to the chronicles of American cultural history. www.bonnieschiffmanphotography.com
Jacqueline Spellens took a basic sculpture class in 1979. In 1992, Spellens and co-owner Bernice Schachter opened Sculpture Spaces in Fountain Valley, California as a place where they could do their own work and create a supportive environment for other artists as well. Working from models or photos taken from several angles, Spellens created her pieces from slabs of cold marble or natural rock. Sometimes the stone itself suggested a form, depending on the way veins appeared in marble. The subject matter also influenced the stone she selected. In the early 1990s, Spellens created a series of terracotta sculptures of Kenyan people, whose culture inspired her best known work.
Born in the Bronx, Ann Sperry graduated from the High School of Art and Music and Sarah Lawrence College, where she was a student of modernist sculptor, Theodore Roszak. Also inspired by artist David Smith, Sperry used welded steel, often with applications of color, to explore the expressive possibilities of the generally inflexible medium. Sperry began making sculpture in the 1960s. Her steel sculptures are included in the collections of Storm King Arts Center in Orange County, NY; Skirball Museums in Los Angeles, CA & Cincinatti, OH; and the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. She made art about her experience as a woman, a Jew and a human being awestruck by the immensity of the cosmos. Sperry was also known for taking an activist’s approach in exploring social issues and their impact through her art. Sperry passed away in 2009.
From the earliest efforts to irrigate the desert, to the postwar population explosion, to present-day suburban sprawl and conservation efforts, human enterprise has shaped the landscape of Los Angeles. It is perhaps appropriate that Robert von Sternberg, who has lived and worked most of his life in L.A. County, identifies human incursions into the natural world as a recurring theme at the heart of his photographic practice. The surreal artificial lighting that illuminates the American nighttime often provides the definitive photographic images that von Sternberg seeks in his travels. Through the roads, fences, signage, buildings, and all the other material structures of civilization, humanity marks the land; even in our bodily absence, we make our presence insistently known. Von Sternberg serves as the Executive Director of The Museum Project and was instrumental in bringing pieces from the collection to Hudson County Community College. www.robertvonsternberg.com
Melanie Walker has been a practicing artist for over 50 years. Her expertise is in the area of alternative photographic processes, digital and mixed media as well as large scale photographic installations and more recently, public art. She has received a number of awards including an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship and an Aaron Siskind Award. She taught at a number of universities including San Francisco State University, SUNY Albany, Alfred University and the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She has been collaborating on public art with artist/sculptor George Peters and together they have been recipients of numerous public art commissions in a number of national and international locations. www.melaniewalkerartist.com
Todd Walker (September 25, 1917 – September 13, 1998) was essentially a self-taught artist whose medium of choice was photography. He worked with light formed images for 60 years exploring sabattiers solarization, artist books, silkscreen, lithography, collotype and digital photography. All of these images utilized additive color with source images starting as black and white negatives. After his military service in WW2 as a flight instructor in the Army Air Corps, Walker married and returned to Los Angeles where Shirley Burden shared a studio with him in Beverly Hills. In the 1950’s he gained a reputation and became a successful freelance photographer working with clients like Charles & Rae Eames, Frank Brothers, TV Guide, and Campbell Ewald, making the signature Chevy ads from the late 1950’s. His work is in many collections around the US. He continued to exhibit his work primarily through educational venues.
A guide at the Saint Louis Art Museum gave five-year-old Webber a card with a detail from a painting and challenged her to find the work in the gallery. Webber recalled the game years later when, as an art student visiting Florence, she observed similarities between the portraits in the museums and the faces on the streets. The marriage of art and life is Webber’s theme as she creates artistic reincarnations using ordinary people with striking resemblances to famous portraits. Her series includes over 200 likenesses and covers all periods and styles of art history. With a casual attention to detail, Webber focuses on her subjects and their features, providing minimal intervention in reconstructing the scene. By literally drawing analogies between subjects like Frida Kahlo and a contemporary young woman, Webber reminds the viewer that the masterpieces we now see as objects of art started as portraits of real people. In 2003 Webber received the commission to provide public art for the Los Angeles Animal Care Center in San Pedro, CA. The concept for the project was, “Life Imitates Art.”
www.nancy-webber.com
Spring Exhibitions
OUT ON BROADWAY: A VISUAL LEGACY
Curated by James E. Crochet
January 25 – March 2
Closing Reception: March 2, 7 - 9 pm
Curator James E. Crochet (Costume Designer and owner of Leading Lady Costumes) invites you to join us as we celebrate the visual legacy of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) experience on Broadway. On display will be costumes, sketches, and accessories from award-winning costume designers such as Gregg Barnes, Jess Goldstein, William Ivey Long, Bob Mackie, David Murin, Arianne Phillips, and David Zinn to iconic LGBT characters in shows like Cabaret, The Boy from Oz, Follies, Grey Gardens, Hairspray, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kinky Boots, La Cage aux Follies, Mame, The Producers, Rent, and Side Show. Explore the creations that have made a night out on Broadway a memorable experience.
Groundbreaking productions such as La Cage aux Folles, winning six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1983, ushered in a new era on Broadway. No longer were gay and transgender characters relegated to bit parts where they were presented as caricatures of commonly held stereotypes. The love between two men, the art of female impersonation, and the glitz and glamour of Broadway costume design finally synthesized in a financially and artistically successful venture. Groundbreaking issues such as marriage equality, bathroom bill controversies, and the recent historical election of transgendered politicians, have us seeing more and more LGBT issues highlighted in shows, along with more acceptance of the LGBT community and their long-standing contribution to the art form. Please
save the date and join us on March 2, when DOCA honors the life of
Georgia Brooks, hosts a curtain call for the Out on Broadway exhibition
with a Masquerade Party, and screens an all-star lineup of indie films
by female filmmakers!
James E. Crochet has designed over 50 productions; 13 operas including Le Nozze di Figaro, Roméo et Juliette, The Merry Widow, and The Tales of Hoffman; over 20 musicals, among them Les Miserables, The Full Monty, La Cage aux Folles, and West Side Story. Companies include Manhattan School of Music, PORTopera, The Ogunquit Playhouse, and the Helen Hayes Theatre Company. Additionally, he has designed for luminaries of stage and screen Jefferson Mays, Hunter Foster, Andrea McArdle, Nancy Dussault, Renée Taylor, Sally Struthers, and Rue McClanahan. Previous exhibitions include: All That Glitters: Embroidering Character in Costume for Art House Productions, and Extreme Silhouette and Costuming the Great White Way for Stagefest at the landmark Loews Theater in Jersey City. Crochet is a Hudson County resident and the owner of Leading Lady Costumes. He received his degree in Theatrical Design with an emphasis in Costume Design and Technology from the University of Northern Colorado. For more information about his work, visit www.leadingladycostumes.net.
William Ivey Long has designed for over 70 Broadway productions. He is credited for design in countless dance and opera productions, as well as for acts like Mick Jagger, Siegfried and Roy, and Joan Rivers. Long is currently represented on Broadway with A Bronx Tale: The Musical; and Chicago, now in its 21st year. He recently designed the costumes for The Prince of Broadway for legendary director Hal Prince and the revised stage musical Young Frankenstein in London’s West End for Mel Brooks (he previously designed the original production on Broadway in 2009). He has designed for FOX’s live television programs A Christmas Story, Live!, the re-imagination of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Grease: Live!, which earned him an Emmy nomination. Long and has been nominated for 15 Tony Awards, winning 6 times. He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2005 and the United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) is publishing a monograph of his work in March 2018. For more information about his work, visit www.williamiveylong.com
Bob Mackie
is an internationally renowned costume and fashion designer who has dressed some of the most glamorous entertainment icons in the world. With a career spanning five decades, nine Emmy Award wins, three Academy Award nominations, and an induction into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, Bob Mackie's career is nothing short of legendary. His theatrical credits include Lorelei with Carol Channing, On the Town with Bernadette Peters, Platinum with Alexis Smith, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public with Dee Hooty, Moon Over Buffalo and Putting It Together, both with Carol Burnett; and Minnelli On Minnelli with Liza Minnelli. He also designed the costumes and scenery for the world premiere of the ballet, Blue Suede Shoes, featuring the music of Elvis Presley, as well as the costumes for the San Francisco Opera's production of Alban Berg's Lulu. Mackie was awarded the TDF Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 for theatrical costume design, the "Charlie" (Chaplin) Award for Fashion Arts from The Hollywood Arts Council in 2008, the Design Legend Award and an Honorary Doctorate Degree in 2011 by Otis College of Art and Design, where Bob has mentored students for over two decades, and the Designer of Excellence Award by the Chicago History Museum in 2016.
For more information about his work, visit www.bobmackie.com.
David Murin
has designed close to 250 productions for Broadway, Off Broadway, Regional Theatre, Ballet, Opera and Television. He also designed the 2007-2008 production of Ringling Brothers Barnum Bailey Circus. Broadway credits include Ned & Jack, Blue in The Night, Mixed Emotions, Devour The Snow, A Change in The Air, A Talent for Murder and recent revivals of Crimes of The Heart (directed by Kathleen Turner), Steel Magnolias, and The Foreigner. Off-Broadway includes: The Middle Ages, Ladyhouse Blues, The Common Pursuit, Translations, Jane Avril, Down the Garden Paths, The Baby Dance, Birds of Paradise, The 4th Wall, and The Custom of the Country. David has taught a Master Class in Costume Design for the past 25 years at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He has been part of the United Scenic Artist Exam Committee for 25 years, and a member of the TDF Irene Sharaff Voting Committee for 10 years. For more information about his work, visit www.davidmurindesign.com.
Martin Pakledinaz
was an American costume designer for stage and film. He won Tony Awards for designing the costumes for Thoroughly Modern Millie and the 2000 revival of Kiss Me, Kate, which also earned him the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design. His most recent costume designs were for the Broadway shows Nice Work If You Can Get It (2012); Man and Boy (revival, 2011); Master Class (revival 2011) and The Normal Heart. He worked on the 1995 production of Holiday at the Circle in the Square Theatre. He designed costumes for plays for the leading regional theatres of the United States, and the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden. Opera credits include works at the New York Metropolitan Opera (Lucia di Lammermoor, Rodelinda, Iphigénie en Tauride) and the New York City Opera, as well as opera houses in Seattle, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Santa Fe, Houston, and Toronto. European houses include Salzburg, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Helsinki, Gothenburg, and others. He also designed for dance companies, working with Mark Morris for many years. Pakledinaz died from brain cancer on July 8, 2012 at the age of 58. Shortly after his death, he was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Arianne Phillips
is an American costume designer who keeps a varied career between film, fashion and music. Even with her long career in film, she is best known as Madonna's stylist and has designed and styled her last five concert tours. She has worked with Lenny Kravitz, Courtney Love, No Doubt and Justin Timberlake. She made her Broadway debut with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, having designed costumes for the 2001 film. She received two Oscar nominations for Walk the Line and W.E., and a BAFTA nomination for A Single Man. In 2014 she was nominated for a Tony Award in the category Best Costume Design in a Musical, for her work on Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Neil Patrick Harris.
Angela Wendt
received a 1996 Drama Desk Award nomination for Rent. Wendt is from Germany where she studied set and costume design in Berlin at Hochschule der Kunste. Her theater credits include the Off-Broadway and studio productions of Rent (NYTW); the American premiere of Play with Repeats by Martin Grimp; Lysistrata directed by Barry Edelstein; The Autobiography of Aihen Fiction by Kate Moira Ryan (Samuel Beckett Theatre); Twelfth Night (Tennessee Rep); The Great Pretenders (Juilliard); Marisol by Jose Rivera (Public). She has also designed numerous feature film, dance, and music video productions in the U.S. and Europe.
Gregg Barnes
is an American costume designer for stage and film. His credits include hit Broadway shows such as Bye Bye Birdie (2009), Aladdin (2014), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2015), Something Rotten (2015), and many others. He is a two-time winner of the Tony Award for Best Costume Design for his work on the Broadway productions The Drowsy Chaperone (2006) and Follies (2011). Barnes grew up in the San Diego, California, area and credits seeing the ice shows, the circus, and a production of As You Like It in San Diego as a youth as inspiring him. He earned an MFA in Design from NYU and an undergraduate degree from San Diego University. He also worked at Grossmont College in the Costume Department with such talents as Clark Mires (Costume and Make Up Instructor at Grossmont College) James "Biff" Baker ("Elements of Stagecraft"; Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. 1978) and Rebecca McKee (Couturier to France Chretien, Daughter of Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien. And International Wedding Dress Designer). He taught at New York University in the Graduate School for 20 years. He was the resident costume designer for the Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, New Jersey.
Jess Goldstein
is a Tony Award-winning Costume Designer with a resume that begins with his professional New York debut, designing costumes for Sam Shepard's landmark off-Broadway production of Buried Child in 1978. His other major credits include Jersey Boys, the recently opened revival of On the Town, Disney's Newsies, and The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino. Goldstein has also designed for countless operas, plays, and films, as well as for television. He is the 2015 recipient of the Irene Sharaff Award for Lifetime Achievement in Costume Design, has won both the Lortel and Hewes Awards for his designs and was the 2010 recipient of the Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration. A native New Yorker, he graduated from Boston University's School of Fine Arts (Alumni of the Year 2007) and the Yale School of Drama, where he has served on their faculty as a Professor of Theater Design since 1990. He resides in Manhattan and Asbury Park, NJ, where he shares his homes with husband and Emmy Award-winning writer Kim Powers and their dog Frankie the Morkie. For more information about his work, visit www.jess-goldstein.com.
David Zinn
is a Tony Award-winning costume and set designer. He received an Obie Award for sustained achievement that cited three productions for which he’d designed sets: the candy-colored nightmare that was Daniel Fish’s staging of Chuck Mee’s Paradise Park at Signature Theater; Itamar Moses’s intimate, austere The Four of Us at Manhattan Theatre Club; and the multilayered parlor of imagination in which Elevator Repair Service inhabited Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, which premiered at New York Theater Workshop and then toured internationally. Meanwhile, two musicals for which he designed costumes overlapped on Broadway, the deliriously campy-pop hit Xanadu and Jill Santoriello’s adaptation of Dickens’s 18th-century saga A Tale of Two Cities. Zinn’s other credits include set and/or costume design for SpongeBob SquarePants, Fun Home, Amélie: A New Musical, The Last Ship, A Doll’s House: Part 2, Good People, Bengal Tiger, and In the Next Room. For more information about his work, visit www.mrdavidzinn.work
SELECTIONS FROM CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
Curated by Linden Scheff
March 14 - April 21
Artist Reception: April 4, 5 - 7 pm
Established in 1991 as the first fine art gallery in Hudson, NY, the Carrie Haddad Gallery represents professionally committed artists as well as emerging talent specializing in all types of painting, both large and small sculpture, works on paper, and a variety of techniques in photography. Occupying 3,000 sq. ft. on Warren Street, the gallery is conveniently located just two hours north of Manhattan. The annual exhibition schedule accommodates seven exhibits on the main floor as well as a rotating selection of photography displayed on the second floor.
A selection of artwork chosen for this exhibit at HCCC celebrates the versatility of Ms. Haddad’s curating style, one that blends figuration with pure abstraction and everything in between.
Mark Beard (also known as Bruce Sargeant) is a contemporary artist who merges late 19th century English style portraiture with American 1980’s fashion photography. Bruce Sargeant is one of the six invented artist persona channeled by Beard who celebrates traditionally masculine themes such as athletics and exploration. Combining this with intense homoeroticism, which is conveyed through the partially- or totally-undressed state of his subjects, Beard maintains the firm sense of artistic identity that has kept his work in high demand throughout his career. Hudson County Community College is proud to have Beard’s work included in the College’s Foundation Art Collection.
Birgit Blyth is one of our most innovative and prolific photographers who works in a darkroom yet uses no camera! Blyth has been experimenting with a technique known as chromoskedasic painting since the early ‘90s and variations on this concept have been shown at the Carrie Haddad Gallery for the last 20 years. e unusual process involves the use of silver particles in black and white photographic paper to scatter light at different wavelengths when exposed. Birgit Blyth succeeds at keeping her work fresh and cutting-edge using analog methods that are being quickly replaced elsewhere with digital technology.
David Dew Bruner’s still lifes and figures drawn in graphite channel the highly graphic influences of Giorgio Morandi, Diego Velasquez, and the Italian futurists like Giacomo Balla and Marcel Duchamp. The likeness of each artist’s subject is expressed on paper, re-envisioned through Bruner’s characteristic style of excitedly applied graphite that produce shard-like fragments embedded with deep interwoven marks. These works explore depth, movement, space, and repetition that is more about design than reference. Bruner tastefully pairs drawings with a vintage frame from his collection, refashioning mirror frames from the 1960s or hand painting an antique Italian frame in lavender.
New Paltz based artist Kate Hamilton, will install larger-than-life garments made of sewn sailcloth. Suspended from the ceiling, a giant “Baby Bonnet” and “Pussy-Bow Shirt” dance above the floor; familiar shapes presented in unprecedented scale, breaking our usual associations with clothing. What one wears plays a crucial role in identity and reveals class, sexual orientation, and personality in an instant. With these works, Hamilton examines clothing’s role in the perception of femininity. The large-scale garments culturally labeled as feminine create a metaphor for the female experience and confront the viewer with the strict gender roles still prevalent in society. The enormous pussy-bow shirt pays tribute to professional women feeling compelled to dress like men to compete in the workplace. Most notably, the design came into the spotlight when Yves Saint Laurent made it part of his signature Le Smoking ‘power suit’ look. The only difference between this design and Hamilton’s male counterparts is the encumbering, feverishly constructed bow, a clear signifier of the frustration felt in the fight for equality.
The success James O’Shea’s painting is two-fold; the skillful fluidity with which he can traverse mediums and palettes and an innate ability to reconcile his perception of nature with what he creates on the canvas. His color stories are reflective of what can be found in nature; muted-earth tones, soft pastels, and pops of hot pink and yellow vary in opacity and come together to mirror the changing seasons. Surfaces with fresh, unfussy strokes are reworked to incorporate translucent veils of neon yellow and turquoise. This is layered over richer tones of indigo and mossy green, all connected with unifying line work. We arrive finding balance in each composition that often seems to be a mere swath of something that is vastly more continuous- a landscape, a city grid, or an aerial view of the neighbor’s pool. Selections for this exhibit will include a variety of oil, acrylic, and fresco-secco paintings framed in uniform white wooden shadow boxes. James O’Shea studied at the City and Guilds of London Art School and then Goldsmith’s University of London. He currently splits his time between New York City and the Hudson Valley.
For more information about the Carrie Haddad Gallery, visit www.carriehaddadgallery.com
HCCC ART REVIEW
Curated by Laurie Riccadonna and Jeremiah Teipen
May 4 – May 17
Artist Reception & Open Studios: May 4, 2- 5 pm
The HCCC Department of Cultural Affairs is proud to host the bi-annual HCCC student art exhibition. The HCCC Art Department offers a wide variety of classes in computer and fine arts taught by professional artists living in the New York metropolitan area. HCCC celebrates the artistic talents of our community with a bi-annual exhibition in the Dineen Hull Gallery.
Natalie Bator
Aminah Chaudhary
Tyrus Davis
Mariana Fuentes
Bryan Galindo
Elariya Girgiss
Gabriela Gomez
Sydney Gomez
Chris Gonzales
Emhoang Han
Reginald Joseph
Erica King
Emmanuel Lanier
Maria Luong
Melissa Machado
Melany Mayorga
Kimberly Parra
Daniel Pastores
Dylan Sellitti
Bryan Tierra
Bruce Vereen-Nealous
George Zambrano
Katherine Zambrano
Matthew Zarate
This Year’s Student Exhibition is In Memory of Heather Acosta
HCCC Class of 2016, A.F.A. in Studio Arts
HCCC ART REVIEW RECEPTION & OPEN STUDIOS
May 4, 2 – 5 pm
Join the art department, professors and current students for the spring exhibition reception and open studios on Friday, May 5 from 2-5 pm. Tour the classrooms, meet faculty, and enjoy the exhibition. This event is FREE and open to the public. Lite refreshments will be served.
TEACHER AS ARTISTCurated by Michelle Vitale
Teacher as Artist celebrates the creativity of educators in Hudson County. The Department of Cultural Affairs supports local artists through a variety of solo exhibitions throughout the College campus. Work is on view at both the Journal Square and the North Hudson campus libraries. For the Spring semester, we will be featuring the following artists!
David Nicolato
January 15 – February 28
Meet the Artist: February 2, 3:30 - 5:30 pm
David Nicolato is a visual arts instructor at the OLC School. He has been making and exhibiting art for over 25 years. His work ranges from drawings and paintings that explore the oddness and beauty of various animal forms to “mini-murals” that focus on fantastic creatures in a classical style of figural representation.
Meet the artist on February 2 from 3:30 to 5:30 pm at the North Hudson Library, 4800 Kennedy Boulevard, 3rd Floor, Union City. Light refreshments will be served.
www.poppaper.bigcartel.com
HCCC Main Library
71 Sip Ave., Jersey City
Jersey City, NJ 07306
North Hudson Campus Library
4800 Kennedy Boulevard, 3rd Floor
Union City, NJ 07087
Antonio Nogueira
Extended till August 2
Antonio Nogueira's work hanging at HCCC as part of the Department of Cultural Affair's "Teacher as Artist" program has been extended until August 2. Admission to this exhibit is free open to the public.
Antonio Nogueira is a husband, father, professional pushrim wheelchair racer, and art teacher in Jersey City. He works with large canvases because he enjoys the physical challenge of painting in a grand-scale. Nogueira’s movement around a canvas with single strokes results in long, contour lines and curves that are consistent elements in his paintings.
Meet the artist on April 6 from 3:30 to 5:30 pm at the North Hudson Library, 4800 Kennedy Boulevard, 3rd Floor, Union City. Light refreshments will be served. www.artonio.com
HCCC Main Library
71 Sip Ave., Jersey City
Jersey City, NJ 07306
North Hudson Campus Library
4800 Kennedy Boulevard, 3rd Floor
Union City, NJ 07087
TEACHER AS ARTIST: SUMMER OPEN CALL - JURIED GROUP EXHIBIT
We invite HCCC faculty and administration artists to submit their work for inclusion in the Summer Teacher as Artist exhibition which will be on display during the summer months at both College campus libraries. For more information, contact mvitale@hccc.edu.