Anna Conway
Enfield, MA, 2006
Oil on panel
46 x 68 inches
Collection of Jacob and
Suzanne Doft

Uncharted
September 15 through December 13, 2009

Featuring work by Radcliffe Bailey, Olaf Breuning, Anna Conway, Mark Essen, Adam Frelin, Valerie Hegarty, David Herbert, Emre Hüner, Matt Leines, and Cameron Martin.

Set against the larger context of travel and discovery, this group exhibition considers the potentialities and perils of navigating unfamiliar waters. Transcending geographic exploration, these artists propose an imagined world of discovery and adventure that often parallels the artistic process itself. They deploy various media including photography, painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, film and video games in artwork that is rife with possibility, fraught with anxiety, and ultimately, tempered by absurdity. Such are the results of beginning any new venture without a map.

Curators: Janet Riker, Director, University Art Museum; Corinna Ripps Schaming, Associate Director/Curator, University Art Museum.

The exhibition and publication have been made possible with support from the UAlbany Office of the President, the UAlbany Office of the Provost, University Auxiliary Services, Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Uncharted is held in conjunction with the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial and UAlbany’s Hudson 400 Theme Semester.

Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey
Spring 2010

Most widely known for his comic, hallucinatory paintings, Carroll Dunham (b.1949) is also a prolific printmaker. This survey features over 100 prints including lithographs, etchings, drypoints, linocuts, wood engravings, screen prints, digital prints and monoprints all made since 1984. An integral part of his artistic process, Dunham’s prints combine the spontaneity and drama of his paintings with the careful premeditation demanded of the medium. His imagery—which shares the wickedly cartoony semi-abstractions of his paintings—is transformed, refined, and often intensified in his graphic work.

Organized by Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

Curated by Allison Kemmerer, Curator of Photography an Art after 1950, Addison Gallery of American Art

The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue raisonne co-published with Yale University Press.