Crit Ecologies: Artists, Community, Criticality

Curated by Dr. Livia Strauss, executive Director, HV MOCA, and Patricia Miranda, founder, The Crit Lab

Link to page on museum site:

https://www.hudsonvalleymoca.org/exhibitions2/crit-ecologies

Dates: September 21 - December 7, 2024

Exhibition Events: Scroll down for full details

Saturday, September 21

Panel Discussion 1:30-3pm
Reception with the Artists 3-5pm

Marks on Paper: A Drawing Marathon
special guest Slam Poet Nick Powers
November 21: 11am - 8pm

December 7, 1:30-5pm

Closing Panel+Reception with Crit Ecologies exhibition artists

Artists:

Christine Aaron, Idil Barkan, Carrie Belk, Allison Belolan, Carol Bouyoucos, Serena Buschi, Jennifer Cadoff, Leah Caroline, Tracy Casagrande Clancy, Martha Chason-Sokol, Jodi Colella, Merill Comeau, Davida Cook, Elizabeth de Bethune, Laura Dolp, Deborah Freedman, Lisa Lee Freeman, Kathryn Geismar, Rima Grad, Sutton Hays, Aileen Hengeveld, Carol Herd-Rodriguez, Anne Johnstone, Fredricka Joyner, Karen Kalkstein, Shelley Kaplan, Natalya Khorover, Rita Klachkin, Wendy Kohli, Bonny Leibowitz, Michelle Lougee, Rita Maas, Cynthia MacCollum, Caroline MacMoran, Claudine Metrick, Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy, Catherine Moylan, T-Bone Muniz, Lisie Orjuela, Deborah Peeples, Deborah Pressman, Laura Reeder, Michelle Robinson, Jonathan Rowe, Roohi Saleem, Sharon Schmiedel, John Sproul, Priscilla Stadler, Rebecca Steiner, Kim Svoboda, Dayna Talbot, Sylvia Vander Sluis, Mitchell Visoky, Julie Weiman, Elizabeth Rose Wilson, Susan Wolf

Artists for the exhibition Crit Ecologies have been participants in The Crit Lab, a graduate-level critique seminar program for working artists after and outside academia. The Lab is an alternate critical community for artists to come together in ongoing, sustained, contact, with empathetic listening, radical optimism and rigorous dialogue, in an act of hope over destruction. The structured pedagogy was developed by Miranda to focus and deepen discussion beyond common subjective reactions, and to support ethical structures in which artists’ practices can thrive. The Crit Lab structure was designed in response to the opinionated and personal nature of much critique, often clouded by the unremarked power dynamics of gender, class, race, etc.

Curated in a competitive juried process from Crit Lab participants from Fall 2023-Spring 2024, selected artists have the benefit of exposure through an exhibition at Hudson Valley MOCA, an institution whose reputation is partially based on a successful record in identifying extraordinary talent early in an artist’s career.

September 21: 1-3pm

Art Educator Panel: Three art educators address the benefits and the need for artists to create communities for ongoing critique and growth.

Speakers: Jeanne Silverthorne, Patricia Miranda, Carla Rae Johnson

Moderator Livia Strauss

Jeanne Silverthorne: Jeanne has taught at the SVA since 1993. She is recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, among others. Her art has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Solo exhibitions include the Phillips Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (ICAP) and PS1.

Patricia Miranda: Patricia is an artist, curator, and educator. She is founder of The Crit Lab, graduate-level critical seminars for artists, and MAPSpace project space.

Carla Rae Johnson: Carla Rae is a multimedia artist. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts 2005 Fellow in Sculpture and a 1990 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Ms. Johnson is an Associate Professor Emerita at Westchester Community College, SUNY.

Livia Straus: Co-Founder, President HVMOCA.

Special Event!

Join us for an interactive day at HVMOCA, with drawing in the exhibition space and black box theater: live model, munchies and wine, and great camaraderie. 

Special for the day:

Word Art Workshops with champion Slam Poet Nick Powers: 3-5 PM. Based on the model of ‘Writing the Walls’, the highly acclaimed annual event at HVMOCA, artists and writers will have the opportunity to create ekphrastic poems based on art in the exhibition and art in process at the drawing marathon.

Bring your own food, we supply the drinks and the teacher crits- Stay the day!

Non-members: $45

HVMOCA Artist Members and Crit Lab Participants: $40

Click HERE to Register

December 7: Artists’ panel: ‘Before and After’: a slide presentation and discussion of how artists measure the benefits of participation in post grad critiques and artist residencies, presented by participants of the Artist Crit exhibition and moderated by Patricia Miranda, artist, curator, educator, and founder of the Crit Lab, offering a series of graduate level seminars for working artists.