Landmines: Dawoud Bey, Christina Fernandez, Richard Mosse, Rick Silva
Curated by Sophie Landres
February 8 – July 13, 2025
Morgan Anderson and Howard Greenberg Family Galleries
Rick Silva (b. 1977), Western Fronts: Cascade Siskiyou, Gold Butte, Grand Staircase, Escalante, and Bears Ears, 2018, video, 18 minutes, 32 seconds, courtesy the artist and Art Bridges
Coinciding with the bicentennial of the earliest existing landscape photographs, the founding of the Hudson River School, and a concentrated period in which Native people from New York were forcibly relocated to Wisconsin, Landmines presents camera-based work by artists who explore the role landscape plays in burying or exhuming social history.
Landmines: Dawoud Bey, Christina Fernandez, Richard Mosse, Rick Silva
Curated by Sophie Landres
February 8 – July 13, 2025
Morgan Anderson and Howard Greenberg Family Galleries
Rick Silva (b. 1977), Western Fronts: Cascade Siskiyou, Gold Butte, Grand Staircase, Escalante, and Bears Ears, 2018, video, 18 minutes, 32 seconds, courtesy the artist and Art Bridges
Coinciding with the bicentennial of the earliest existing landscape photographs, the founding of the Hudson River School, and a concentrated period in which Native people from New York were forcibly relocated to Wisconsin, Landmines presents camera-based work by artists who explore the role landscape plays in burying or exhuming social history.
Hudson Valley Artists 2025: Movement
Curated by ransome
February 8 – April 6, 2025
Chandler and North Galleries
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What makes someone leave family, friends, and a familiar way of life behind? What would it take for you to say goodbye to the people you love and embark on a journey to a place you have never seen, many miles from your home? The decision to leave can be both the most frightening and the bravest step of a lifetime. Often such moves are seen as taking steps to improve one’s circumstances. Yet, for many people, the decision to relocate is often made because one’s survival depends on it. In those instances, our bodies carry us forward—our small steps, the breath rising and falling in our chests, build into a journey of significance. These physical movements can ultimately reverberate over generations, altering the fabric of societies, creating new communities, and melding cultures.
This year's theme, "Movement," prompts viewers to consider the profound impact of physical journeys, both personal and collective. Reflecting on what compels people to leave their homes, the exhibition examines migration as a transformative force that shapes communities, melds cultures, and redefines societal landscapes. Through various mediums, including painting, sculpture, video and mixed media, selected artists explore themes of resilience, change and the legacies of movement that resonate across generations.
Hudson Valley Artists 2025: Movement
Curated by ransome
February 8 – April 6, 2025
Chandler and North Galleries
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What makes someone leave family, friends, and a familiar way of life behind? What would it take for you to say goodbye to the people you love and embark on a journey to a place you have never seen, many miles from your home? The decision to leave can be both the most frightening and the bravest step of a lifetime. Often such moves are seen as taking steps to improve one’s circumstances. Yet, for many people, the decision to relocate is often made because one’s survival depends on it. In those instances, our bodies carry us forward—our small steps, the breath rising and falling in our chests, build into a journey of significance. These physical movements can ultimately reverberate over generations, altering the fabric of societies, creating new communities, and melding cultures.
This year's theme, "Movement," prompts viewers to consider the profound impact of physical journeys, both personal and collective. Reflecting on what compels people to leave their homes, the exhibition examines migration as a transformative force that shapes communities, melds cultures, and redefines societal landscapes. Through various mediums, including painting, sculpture, video and mixed media, selected artists explore themes of resilience, change and the legacies of movement that resonate across generations.
A Living Collection
Curated by Katie Hood Morgan with community members and Museum staff
Ongoing
Corridor Gallery and the Sara Bedrick Gallery
Fred Wilson, Untitled, ca. 1987, gift of Ward Mintz and Floyd Lattin
This new display of the Museum’s collection tells the story of The Dorsky from a variety of perspectives, making space for traditionally marginalized voices. Exhibiting collection highlights and audience favorites alongside new acquisitions and commissions, A Living Collection presents the collection as a living entity, continuously evolving and shaped by the viewer's interpretation.
Featuring Thematic Pathways:
Drawing connections between artworks and considering how their meanings continuously evolve with the viewer's response, a series of thematic pathways are presented which link works across time period, medium, and style. Along these pathways we invite you to find your own way and make connections from our contemporary moment into the past, from your life to the artists’ creations, enjoying the universal and timeless potential of art.
Identity and the Body: What can the figures and faces shown here tell us about the artists’ experience and our shared human histories?
Ecology and Natural Forms: How have artists used nature in their work to express humanity’s evolving relationship to the natural world?
Social Justice: How can visual art be a tool of activism and social change?
Art in the Everyday: What kinds of unexpected meanings and stories can we uncover in everyday objects and materials?
A Living Collection
Curated by Katie Hood Morgan with community members and Museum staff
Ongoing
Corridor Gallery and the Sara Bedrick Gallery
Fred Wilson, Untitled, ca. 1987, gift of Ward Mintz and Floyd Lattin
This new display of the Museum’s collection tells the story of The Dorsky from a variety of perspectives, making space for traditionally marginalized voices. Exhibiting collection highlights and audience favorites alongside new acquisitions and commissions, A Living Collection presents the collection as a living entity, continuously evolving and shaped by the viewer's interpretation.
Featuring Thematic Pathways:
Drawing connections between artworks and considering how their meanings continuously evolve with the viewer's response, a series of thematic pathways are presented which link works across time period, medium, and style. Along these pathways we invite you to find your own way and make connections from our contemporary moment into the past, from your life to the artists’ creations, enjoying the universal and timeless potential of art.
Identity and the Body: What can the figures and faces shown here tell us about the artists’ experience and our shared human histories?
Ecology and Natural Forms: How have artists used nature in their work to express humanity’s evolving relationship to the natural world?
Social Justice: How can visual art be a tool of activism and social change?
Art in the Everyday: What kinds of unexpected meanings and stories can we uncover in everyday objects and materials?
Space to Create
Curated by The Dorsky Museum
Ongoing
Seminar Gallery
Jan Sawka, Post-Card #17 (from the series '36 Post Cards'), 1988, drypoint etching, gift of Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs
Creating art is different for each of us. It can be a powerful outlet for self-expression, a form of connection with others, a way to reflect on important issues, or a welcome relief from daily stresses. We invite you to follow art-making prompts related to objects in The Dorsky collection or follow your own creative path by experimenting with the provided materials. Share your creation on the display board, take it home with you to treasure, or gift it to a loved one.
This is your space to create.
This is your time to be creative.
Space to Create
Curated by The Dorsky Museum
Ongoing
Seminar Gallery
Jan Sawka, Post-Card #17 (from the series '36 Post Cards'), 1988, drypoint etching, gift of Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs
Creating art is different for each of us. It can be a powerful outlet for self-expression, a form of connection with others, a way to reflect on important issues, or a welcome relief from daily stresses. We invite you to follow art-making prompts related to objects in The Dorsky collection or follow your own creative path by experimenting with the provided materials. Share your creation on the display board, take it home with you to treasure, or gift it to a loved one.
This is your space to create.
This is your time to be creative.
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