HV Artists: Contemporary Art and Praxis
June 26, 2010
—November 16, 2010
Hudson Valley Artists 2010: Contemporary Art and Praxis will present the work of artists living and working in the Hudson River Valley who demonstrate how creative practice can operate in service of theory to effect changes in the real world. The show opens at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz with a gallery talk by show curator Thomas Collins from 4 to 5 pm and a reception for the artists from 5 to 7 pm on Saturday, June 26. The exhibit is open through November 16.
New this year to the Dorsky Museum’s annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition is an expansion of the residency requirement to include artists from Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester Counties.
Cornwall-on-Hudson artist Jackie Skrynski , who brought the Silent Walks on the Half Moon to the village in 2009, will be one of the artists featured in the exhibit.
Key philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to the Frankfurt School have elaborated the description of and advocated a special category of human action called “praxis.” In praxis, critical theory is wedded to practical activity to yield new cultural “products” ranging from speech to texts, objects, organizations, and environments. The resulting creative products are offered as a form of social activism seeking to improve, or propose a new solution to, an existing set of material, cultural, or social circumstances.
Contemporary progressive artists and artist collectives have gone beyond modern abstraction and postmodern investigations of representation to devise new artistic praxes that have real material implications. Drawing on sources as varied as social theory, genomics, psychoanalysis, environmental science, political philosophy, and cybernetics, they have worked locally, nationally, and internationally to place art at the service of the individual and society in an attempt to bring about social, political, and economic change.
Visit www.newpaltz.edu/museum/ for hours and directions.
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