Department News
Professor Emerita Roberta M. Bernstein featured in the Wildenstein Plattner Institute's Oral Histories Project
Art and Art History Professor Emerita Roberta M. Bernstein has been featured in the Wildenstein Plattner Institute's Oral Histories project, for her catalogue raisonné of the work of Jasper Johns. Listen to the transcript here: https://wpi.art/2021/02/16/17519/
Freshman Seminar: Why Museums?
Students worked with artist Tanja Hollander to photograph materials or objects that provided some sort of meaning to them over the years.
Distinguished Professor JoAnne Carson stages New One-Person Exhibition
High Hopes, an exhibition of six paintings by artist JoAnne Carson, will be exhibited at 527 Madison in NYC. The works, which survey the last decade, are defined by a sense of nature that is both abundantly alive and wild, and an environment paradoxically fragile and distorted by human intervention. Carson is a nationally recognized artist and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient living and working in Brooklyn and Vermont. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Whitney Museum, MCA Chicago, ICA Philadelphia, and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, among others.
Located at 54th Street and Madison Avenue, the exhibition is open to the public Monday - Friday 9AM-5PM January 8th - June 31st.
Professor and Chair Sarah Cohen Publishes New Book
Art and Art History Professor and Chair Sarah Cohen has published a new book called Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art: Sensation, Matter, and Knowledge. How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which painters such as Chardin, as well as sculptors, porcelain modelers, and other decorative designers portrayed animals as sensing subjects who physically confirmed the value of material experience.
Art Faculty Member Melissa Thorne Featured on AHA! A House for Arts Episode
Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Painting and Drawing Area Head and artist Melissa Thorne was featured on the WMHT art series, AHA! A House for Arts on November 4, 2020. WMHT is the Capital Region PBS station.
"Part of my interest in pattern is taking the disparate and confusing elements of the world and making some kind of order out of them." Explore the art of Melissa Thorne, who uses pattern in her work as an indicator of place and cultural identity.
Watch the episode.
Art History grad Acacia Larson featured as “face” of Courtauld Institute
UAlbany Art History graduate Acacia Larson featured as “face” of the Courtauld Institute in London, where she is currently studying as a graduate student
Retiring art history professor Rachel Dressler is honored with a planned anthology of writings by notable scholars in the field of Medieval Studies
Visualizing Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages is a planned volume in celebration of the work of Rachel Dressler, associate professor of art history at the University at Albany, and focuses on new research that engages with feminist art historical approaches within the fields of medieval art history and material culture studies. Contributors and more details found below.
Professor JoAnne Carson stages two solo exhibitions at New England museums
Studio art professor JoAnne Carson is staging two art shows in New England museums this summer and fall, one at Zillman Art Museum in Bangor, Maine, titled Wood Nymphs, August 4-December 23, and the other at Burlington City Arts from July 22 - October 10, titled A Sense of Wonder. The details of each show are below.
Wood Nymphs
Zillman Art Museum, 40 Harlow St., Bangor, Maine
August 4 - December 23, 2020