Through 04.10.10
Two Decades: Envisioning Space
Courtesy of School of Visual Arts
Selected works by current students and alumni from the BFA Interior Design Department over the past 20 years. Divided into six sections — prototypes, renderings, models, and drawings — the exhibition provides a “behind the scenes” glimpse into the creative process of students in the department.
Westside Gallery, 133 West 21 Street, NYC
Through 04.23.10
Ouroboros: The History of the Universe
This 3-D visual installation tells the story of cosmic evolution.
Courtesy Ise Cultural Foundation
Video artist Ali Hossaini teams up with artists Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy, aka SWEATSHOPPE, to present the story of cosmic evolution from the Big Bang to Lady Gaga in an immersive 3-D video environment generated by SWEATSHOPPE’s own software.
ISE Cultural Foundation [http://iseny.org/usr_helio1/index.php]
555 Broadway, NYC
Through 05.07.10
Operators’ Exercises: Open Form Film and Architecture
Game on an Actress’s Face, one of nine sequences of Open Form film, February 8-14, 1971.
Collaboration between students and graduates from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, students of the Faculty for Camera Operators and Faculty of Acting, ód Film Academy, courtesy Columbia University
This exhibition explores the surprising and productive relationship between Polish experimental film and architecture in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It traces the evolution of Polish architect Oskar Hansen’s theory of Open Form from its origin in Hansen’s own architectural projects to its application in film, multi-slide projection, visual games, and performative practices.
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, NYC
Through 05.09.10
Ralph Bakshi: The Streets
Canal Street, Mixed-media on wood panel.
©Ralph Bakshi, 2010. Courtesy of Animazing Gallery
Ralph Bakshi’s new series of mixed-media construction/paintings was inspired by the gritty and colorful neighborhoods of his youth in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.
54 Greene Street, NYC