The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz invites artists working in all media to submit proposals for its annual exhibition of work by artists from the Hudson Valley. CAMPSITE, the 2016 edition of the Hudson Valley Artists series, will be curated by Corinna Ripps Schaming. A specialist in contemporary art, Schaming is associate director and curator at the University at Albany Art Museum. Over the past 15 years, she has organized more than 80 exhibitions at the University Art Museum.
The deadline for artist submissions to CAMPSITE: Hudson Valley Artists 2016 is Monday, March 21, 2016, midnight.
CAMPSITE seeks artists who engage in a spirit of play and who create artworks that are in touch with the seriousness of playful exploration. The exhibition draws inspiration from the traditions and aesthetics associated with the region’s rich history of summer camps. From sleepaway camps for kids to pleasure palace resorts for adults, these sites conjure up the promise of new adventures, diversions, libidinal pursuits, and unfettered experimentation. Historically, this experience spans race, class and culture. Summer camp can be an escape, a state of mind, or a metaphor by which to confront emotional longings and dislocations of contemporary life.
CAMPSITE is an opportunity for artists to channel summer traditions and rituals associated with camp, resorts and festivals. This includes craft projects, wilderness encounters, improvised games, talent shows, and more. Artists may wish to revisit the naive impulses and emotional connections associated with their earliest handiwork and preferred materials or envision what summer camp means to them now. Moving freely across artistic disciplines and mediums, including performance, textiles, ceramics, painting, drawing, installation, video, and photography, CAMPSITE promises to transform the museum space into a locus of visual pleasures and unexpected activities where playful exploration leads to more serious engagement with the larger contemporary world.
The exhibition will run from June 18–Nov.13, 2016, in the Dorsky Museum’s Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery. This is the eighth year that the Hudson Valley Artists Annual Purchase Award of $3,000 will be used to acquire one or more artworks from the exhibition for the museum’s permanent collection. This Purchase Award is made possible through the Alice and Horace Chandler Art Acquisition Fund. Artists whose work has been purchased in the past include Nestor Madalengoita, Richard Edelman, Deb Lucke, Holly Hughes, Stephen Niccolls, Patrick Kelley, Adie Russell, Elisa Pritzker, Charles Geiger, and Curt Belshe and Lise Prown, among others.
GUIDELINES
The Hudson Valley Artists exhibition is open to all emerging and mid-career artists with a permanent mailing address and active art practice in Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester Counties who have not had a major one-person museum exhibition and who are not currently represented by a commercial art gallery. Students are not eligible. There is no application fee.
Artists are invited to submit a maximum of six images or files of work created in 2014 or later. Artworks created in traditional media as well as audio, video, film, and performance are welcome. Brief proposals for new works to be created for this exhibition, including installation or performance works, may also be submitted.
Deadline: Monday, March 21, 2016, midnight.
Artists’ submissions must be made online only through the following website: https://dorskymuseum.submittable.com/submit/52366.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM
Through its collections, exhibitions, and public programs, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, located at SUNY New Paltz, supports and enriches the academic programs at the college, presents a broad range of world art for study and enjoyment, and serves as a center for Hudson Valley arts and culture. The museum is gaining wide recognition as the premier public showplace for exhibition, education, and cultural scholarship about the Hudson Valley region’s art and artists from yesterday and today. With more than 9,000 square feet of exhibition space distributed over six galleries, The Dorsky Museum is one of the largest museums within the SUNY system. The Dorsky was officially dedicated on Oct. 20, 2001. Since then it has presented over one hundred exhibitions, including commissions, collection-based projects, and in-depth studies of contemporary artists including Robert Morris, Alice Neel, Judy Pfaff, Carolee Schneemann, and Ushio Shinohara, historic Woodstock artists Eugene Speicher and Charles Rosen, and Hudson Valley luminaries Russel Wright and Dick Polich.
Museum Hours:
Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays, Tuesdays, Holidays, and Intersessions
For more information about The Dorsky Museum and its programs, visit http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum, or call (845) 257-3844.
