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Exhibition Archive
Ghostcatching: A Virtual Dance Installation
Ghostcatching, a virtual dance installation created by world-renowned dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones with Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar of the New York new media studio of Riverbed, premiered at the Cooper Union's Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Gallery. It was curated by Robert Rindler, Dean of the School of Art. The performance consists of Jones' original movements captured through the use of digital technology and manipulated by Shelley Eshkar (a 1992 Cooper Union alumnus) and Paul Kaiser. The projection in the installation was accompanied by several drawings, taken from the dance and exhibited in the main art gallery. A catalog of the exhibition is available from the School of Art for $10.00.
Foundation Building
Houghton Gallery, 2nd floor
7 East 7th Street
January 6th to February 13th, 1999
New York Photographs: Margaret Morton, Christine Osinski, Robert Rindler
Diverse aspects of New York City are examined in photographs by three artist/educators in The Cooper Union School of Art. The black & white and color prints in this exhibition at The College's Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery illustrated the city's physical evolution, longstanding social ills and urban iconography: Professor Christine Osinski explores the islands making up the city archipelago; Professor Margaret Morton documents dwellings built by the homeless; and Dean of The School of Art Robert Rindler focuses on vernacular architectural details. Seen together, these three bodies of work provide the viewer with revelatory and intimate portraits of Cooper Union's East Village neighborhood and the surrounding metropolis. A catalog of the exhibition is available from the School of Art for $5.00.
Foundation Building
Houghton Gallery, 2nd floor
7 East 7th Street
October 28th to December 5th, 1998
La MaMa in Print chronicles the early historic journey of the world-renowned La Mama Experimental Theater through selections of early handmade programs, posters and photographs of East Village productions, to the kiosk-size international festival announcements. Curated by Lawrence Mirsky, director of the Lubalin Study Center, and Ozzie Rodriguez, archivist and resident director at La MaMa, the exhibition featured original posters on display for the first time outside the walls of the La MaMa archive. The selected works-on-paper, accented by theatrical artifiacts and video performance selections, combined in-display to offer the viewer a unique glimpse into the influence and evolution of contemporary experimental theater in America and abroad.
Foundation Building
Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, 2nd Floor
7 East 7th Street
October 21st, 1998 to March 1st, 1999
Blackletter: Type and National Identity
Curated by Peter Bain and Paul Shaw, the exhibition at the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography explored the history and contemporary perceptions of blackletter typefaces. Blackletter is an all-encompassing term used to describe the scripts of the Middle Ages in which the darkness of the characters overpowers the whiteness of the page. Princeton Architectural Press published the monograph which accompanied the exhibition.
Foundation Building
Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, 2nd Floor
7 East 7th Street
March 3rd to April 25th, 1997
Ambush in the Streets
A Photographer's Encounter with the Stencil Art of Paris,
The Work of Jules Backus (1944-1996)
Politically, pochoirs (stencils) are descendants of the cultural manifestoes and Situationist proclamations that marked the student and working class rebellions of the 1960s. Aesthetically, they are linked more to a French painterly tradition than to American graffiti. This exhibition featured nearly one hundred images of stencil art photographed by Jules Backus.
Foundation Building
Herb Lubalin Study Center, 2nd Floor
7 East 7th Street
October 7th to December 6th, 1997
Stung By Splendor
Working Drawings and the Creative Moment
This recent exhibition celebrated the common language of science, art and architecture – the utterly human moment when an idea or creative thought is conceived and expressed. Working drawings on paper by a selection of artists, scientists and architects provided a rare opportunity to compare the creative disciplines.
September 26th to October 27th, 1997
An exhibition of multimedia installation work by forty artists, curated by Robert Rindler and Deborah Willis. In celebration of this major exhibition that examined the transformative import of the creative alliance between art and science, the essays from the exhibition catalogue are available on the Web at http://www.cooper.edu/art/techno/essays/essays.html.
January 17th to February 15th, 1997