TSENG KWONG CHI @ The Grey Art Gallery

Combining photography with performance, personal identity with global politics, and satire with farce, Tseng Kwong Chi (1950–1990) created a compelling body of work whose complexity is belied by its humor and grace. Born in Hong Kong, raised in Vancouver, and educated in Paris, Tseng moved to New York in 1978, where he quickly became a key documentarian of Manhattan's vibrant downtown scene. He also began crafting the performative self-portraits—"selfies" avant la lettre—that form the backbone of his artistic practice, exploring the questions of personal and political identity that preoccupied many artists of his generation.

April 21 - July 11, 2015 

@ The Grey Art Gallery | 100 Washington Square East

Featuring cutting-edge examples from Tseng’s archive that have rarely or never been shown, Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera is the first major solo museum exhibition of his works, which have long sparked the imaginations of younger artists. Organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art and the Grey Art Gallery, NYU, the exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. 

Check out the full story online here!

!~*~Upcoming Events~*~!

International Student Coffee Hour

This week we will be joined by students from AAP for a tour of the Grey Art Gallery's exhibit of the photographic work of Ernest Cole

Meet in Silver 907 for refreshments at 4:00 pm

Thursday, December 4th

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ISC E-Board Elections

Don’t forget to vote for this year’s International Student Board (ISC) E-Board elections! We have a wonderful roster of candidates for a number of key positions (including ISC President).

Voting lasts for a week, and ends at midnight on Wednesday, December 10.

Read about the candidates and cast your vote here!
One vote per person per position. 

Joint Event with AAP!

For our International Student Coffee Hour on Dec 4th, we will be joining forces with students from the CAS Academic Achievement Program for a tour of the Grey Art Gallery.

 Specifically, we will learn about the photography of Ernest Cole:

"One of South Africa’s first black photo-journalists—created powerful photographs that revealed to the world what it meant to be black under apartheid. With imaginative daring, courage, and compassion, Cole portrayed the everyday lives of blacks as they negotiated apartheid’s racist laws and oppression. Apartheid, which means “apartness” in Afrikaans (the language of South Africa’s white minority of Dutch descent), was an often brutally enforced legal policy that separated people by race in all aspects of life, within a white supremacist hierarchy of power."

Join us on the 9th floor of Silver at 4:30pm, for lite snacks and refreshments before heading to the gallery.

Thursday, December 4th

  

 

Ernest Cole: Photographer

"Ernest Cole (1940–1990)—one of South Africa’s first black photo-journalists—created powerful photographs that revealed to the world what it meant to be black under apartheid. With imaginative daring, courage, and compassion, Cole portrayed the everyday lives of blacks as they negotiated apartheid’s racist laws and oppression. Apartheid, which means “apartness” in Afrikaans (the language of South Africa’s white minority of Dutch descent), was an often brutally enforced legal policy that separated people by race in all aspects of life, within a white supremacist hierarchy of power." 

Now through December 6th

Grey Art Gallery

NYU, Silver Building

100 Washington Square East

Energy That is All Around

Grey Art Gallery Exhibit

NYU, Silver Building, 1st Floor

 Mission School: Chris Johanson
Margaret Kilgallen, Alicia McCarthy
Barry McGee, Ruby Neri 

"In the early 1990s, many aspiring San Francisco artists lived and worked in the Mission District, a gritty, low-rent area of the city. Among them were San Francisco Art Institute undergraduates Alicia McCarthy, Barry McGee, and Ruby Neri, along with friends Chris Johanson and Margaret Kilgallen. Turning their backs on the Bay Area dot-com boom—which brought to the neighborhood an influx of young professionals, upscale shops, chic restaurants, and eviction threats—they embraced street aesthetics and lowbrow visual culture such as cartoons, signage, and folk art. All made and promoted graffiti; all had tag names. All moved easily between representation and abstraction, the street and the studio, and worked in various media including painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, and installation. Although each developed a distinct artistic style and philosophy, they all were drawn to the radical and the political. Not surprisingly, all took inspiration from Bay Area Figuration, the Beats, Funk art, and Punk. They likewise witnessed how hard San Francisco was hit by the AIDS epidemic. By 2002, these high-octane and previously obscure artists were retroactively dubbed the Mission School by critic Glen Helfand.

The Mission School, however, is less a movement than an ethos. Nor does ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND purport to be a definitive survey. Instead it focuses on rarely seen early work by five key Mission School practitioners. Johanson, Kilgallen, McCarthy, McGee, and Neri often collaborated and showed their work in the same alternative venues. Moreover their art evokes a paradox: while it appears to be slapdash and unfinished, it is actually highly considered and resolved. With the exception of Margaret Kilgallen—who died prematurely in 2001—they remain friends and still share an affinity for humble and/or discarded materials, a devotion to community, and an anti-consumerist stance. Highlighting their aesthetic contributions as well as subversions, ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND provides a raffish and spirited introduction to the distinctive work of some of California’s most innovative contemporary artists."

http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/

Coffee Hour Special Event - Today!

This week’s Coffee Hour will meet at the NYU Grey Art Gallery at 3:30pm.  The gallery is located on the first floor of the Silver Center, entrance at 100 Washington Square East.  We will provide basic snacks.

At the Grey Art Gallery, we will take a guided tour of the current Modern Iranian Art show, which has been put on in collaboration with the Asia Society.  NYU has a wonderful, world-renowned collection of modern art from Iran that is showcased in this fascinating exhibit.  Refer to these links to learn more:

 

NYU Grey Art Gallery: http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/

New York Times Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/arts/design/shows-at-asia-society-and-nyu-grey-art-gallery.html

Finally, stay tuned for the upcoming Holiday Dinner on Thursday, December 12 (5:30pm-7:00pm), which is being co-sponsored by CAS and the CAS International Student Club (ISC).  The dinner will be held in the normal Coffee Hour room – Silver Center, 9^th floor, room 907.  We will have holiday-themed food as well as some activities and film clips.  More details to come…

We hope to see you all later today!

Focus on NYU: Grey Art Gallery

Fine Arts Museum on Campus!

New York City is well know for its many museums, galleries, and cultural centers located all around the city.  But did you know we have all of that right here on campus??  The Grey Art Gallery is located right on Washington Square Park in the Silver Center building.  Like most museums and art galleries, the Grey works to collect and preserve fine art.  In addition, the Grey:

"...distinguishes itself by emphasizing art's historical, cultural, and social contexts, with experimentation and interpretation as integral parts of programmatic planning. Thus, in addition to being a place to view the objects of material culture, the Gallery serves as a museum-laboratory in which a broader view of an object's environment enriches our understanding of its contribution to civilization." 

Free for NYU students!

While you're there, make sure you check out "Radical Presence: Black performance in Contemporary Art" (through December 7th) - "the first exhibition to survey over fifty years of performance art by visual artists of African descent from the United States and the Caribbean." 

http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/index.html