The Dorsky exhibition Along His Own Lines: A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher is heading to Albany, N.Y., where it will be on display at the New York State Museum starting tomorrow through March 22, 2015.
The retrospective exhibition, organized and presented by the Dorsky from Feb. 5 – Oct. 17, 2014, features 39 paintings and 35 drawings and works on paper. Speicher’s life and friendships are documented with archival photographs as well as the artist’s wooden palette, borrowed from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, where Speicher was a founding member.
Tomorrow is also your last chance to view the exhibition Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos on display at the University Art Museum in Albany, N.Y.
Organized and presented by the Dorsky from Jan.22 – April 13, 2014, the exhibition features three recent high definition videos—”You Make Me Iliad” (2010), “The Syphilis of Sisyphus” (2011), and “Priapus Agonistes” (2013)—and also reveals the inventive process by which Kelley has fused live performance, drawing, sculpture, costume design, and digital media. In addition to the three videos, the exhibition includes found objects and carefully rendered materials, which have been enhanced by the artist. These objects include costumes, furniture ensembles, masks, hats, wigs, shoes, and nearly 100 other props. Installed in full-scale, theatrical and worktable settings, these elements fully immerse the viewer in the artist’s unique vision. Also featured are drawings and paintings on paper that are used as visual elements in the videos, as well as “character drawings” or portraits of the personages from her videos.
