ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.-On Sunday, June 15, three diverse new exhibitions of contemporary works will open at Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies Museum: "Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban"; "Joseph Havel"; and "Doug Ischar." A reception for all three exhibitions will be held at the Center on June 15 from 1 :00-4:00 p.m. The public is invited.
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LANDSCAPE: THE PASTORAL TO THE URBAN
"Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban" examines the changing notions of the landscape as an artistic theme and how this theme directly and indirectly continues to motivate artists and inspire artistic experimentation. In the exhibition, landscape is viewed both in historical and cultural contexts and as a realm of existence often beyond the reach of cultural institutions. The landscape can be seen as an artifice or an artificially constructable thing-an extension of the artist that tells more about him or her than it does about the landscape the work alludes to.
The works in the exhibition span a broad creative range from sharp depiction to expressive and romantic renderings and from parody to the meditative. The exhibition includes a wide variety of paintings, drawings, photographs, and videos, as well as video installations, dating from the 1960s to today, by Richard Artschwager, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Peter Cain, Vija Celmins, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Hannah Collins, Robert Cottingham, Jeanne Dunning, Richard Estes, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gunther Forg, April Gomik, Gary Hill, Mark Innerst, Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, Richard Long, Robert Longo, Paul Myoda, Joan Nelson, Louise Nevelson, Jack Pierson, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Neil Welliver, and Chris Welsby.
The exhibition has been organized by the Center for Curatorial Studies and is made possible through support from the Martin & Toni SosnoffFoundation.