Storage, Columbia University MAF Summer Exhibition, Opening Reception August 16th 6 - 8pm

Motohiro Takeda, Trinity, 2022, Ashes on stretched canvas, 62 x 42 in.   OPENING TOMORROW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MFA SUMMER EXHIBITION  PART II   Opening Reception August 16th 6 - 8pm   August 16th - August 31st 52 Walker St. 4th Floor - Elevator Entrance Tribeca   We are delighted to announce Columbia MFA Summer Exhibition at Storage. Our inaugural survey exhibition began in September 2022 and continues with PRESS RELEASE (Cycle V), presenting a wide range of work by Columbia MFA students in two parts.    Through the year, other openings, and programming will be announced via our mailing list and/or Instagram @storage.archive   About Storage:   Storage was founded in 2020 by artist Onyedika Chuke, in his studio in Chinatown. Born out of a desire to bring about community and an ongoing exploration of decentralization as activism, the gallery seeks to rethink the notion of ‘gallery’ as a space of service run by artists for artists.    Storage relocated to 52 Walker street in September 2022. #storagecloumbiauniversitymfa#fineartmagazine#fineartmaffun

Columbia University Announces the Year of Water as they step into Earth Day's 22 Birthday Celebration !!!!

The Year of Water at Columbia University
Restorative and ruinous, excessive and scarce, water sustains life on Earth, fueling and undermining ecosystems, biodiversity, the global economy and technological innovation.

Beginning in fall 2019, Columbia University will launch the Year of Water, an interdisciplinary investigation of water in all of its social, political, cultural, economic and environmental complexities. Led by Columbia’s School of the Arts and convened across the University’s two Manhattan campuses and its Global Centers, public programming for the Year of Water will feature art presentations and exhibitions, lectures, screenings, readings and symposia focused on our planet’s most precious resource. Participating artists include Olafur Eliasson and Daan Roosegarde, whoseWaterlicht, a site-specific, immersive, outdoor light sculpture addressing rising water levels will have its New York City premiere at Columbia’s Manhattanville campus  on October 22, 23 and 24.

Columbia is a leader in cutting-edge research in water-related areas such as climate change, storm prevention, sustainability and water rights. Throughout the year, this research will be the focus of panel discussions and conferences led by professors at schools and institutes across the University including the Earth Institute, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the Mailman School of Public Health, the Data Science Institute, the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the Columbia Engineering School.

“Water is crucial to all aspects of life – interconnecting everything from food production and agriculture to sanitation, the health of our planet and the safety of our communities,” said Mary Boyce, dean of the engineering school. “Our faculty and students work collaboratively across our school and throughout Columbia, and with industry and government to develop novel methods and systems approaches to increase access to clean water, convert wastewater and mitigate the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and extreme weather events.”

In observance of Earth Day, we are launching the yearofwater.columbia.edu. Visit the site to learn about Columbia’s comprehensive water research, and come back in the coming months to register for events throughout the Year of Water.

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Eve Glasberg

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Columbia University in the City of New York

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Looks like an interesting visit. Mary Sibande at Columbia University’s Leroy Neiman Gallery April 17th -May1 2019

Mary Sibande at
Columbia University’s
Leroy Neiman Gallery

The first solo exhibition in New York of South African contemporary artist Mary Sibande will open at the Leroy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University on April 17, 2019 and be on view through May 1, 2019.

In Sibande’s installations, photographs and sculptures, she explores the intersection of identity, history and memory in South Africa. For her exhibition at the Neiman Gallery, the artist presents six works from two series, Long Live the Dead Queen (2007–2011) and The Purple Shall Govern (2013–present). Included in the show will be images—both photographs and a life-size sculpture—of Sophie, one of Sibande’s best-known works. An alter-ego figure for the artist, Sophie is a domestic worker like Sibande’s mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. The sculpture is made of fiberglass and a silicone cast of Sibande’s body.

“Sophie is the embodiment of the maid,” said Sibande. “Through her, I am giving voice to the countless South African domestic workers.”

Opening soon after the groundbreaking exhibition Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today closed at Columbia’s Wallach Gallery in February, Mary Sibande continues Columbia’s commitment to showcasing art that is compelling and relevant, in particular, artwork that engages women of color.

Sibande is the 2018-2019 Virginia C. Gildersleeve Professor at Barnard College, where she will be in residence during the exhibition. She was born in Barberton, South Africa in 1982, and lives and works in Johannesburg. She earned an honors degree from the University of Johannesburg in 2007 and a fine arts degree from the Witwatersrand Technical College in Johannesburg in 2004.

Notable awards include the 2017 Smithsonian National Museum of African Arts Award and the Johannesburg Alumni Dignitas Award in 2014. Sibande has exhibited her work extensively, including in Made Visible, Contemporary South African Fashion and Identity now on view at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts through May 12, 2019; Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018; South Africa: The Art of a Nation at the British Museum in London in 2016; and Desire, Narratives in Contemporary South African Art at the 54^th Venice Biennale, as part of the South African Pavilion in 2011.

Sibande’s work is in prominent public and private collections, including the Smithsonian Museum of African Art in Washington DC, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio.

Curated by Sally Eaves Hughes, a student in Columbia’s Art History and Archaeology Department M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art Critical and Curatorial Studies program (MODA)

Curatorial Advisor: Kellie Jones, Art History and Archaeology

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Barnard College Departments of Art History and Africana Studies, the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research at Columbia University and a Humanities New York Action Grant 

Public Events:

Conversation with Mary Sibande and Kellie Jones

Thursday, April 25, 2019

5–6 PM 

Faculty House, President's Ballroom

Exhibition Reception

Thursday, April 25, 2019

6–8 PM

LeRoy Neiman Gallery 

310 Dodge Hall
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

For more information: https://arts.columbia.edu/leroy-neiman-gallery

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