HVCCA: Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art

Upcoming Exhibitions

IN.FLEC.TION

a turning away from a position
a manner of expressing oneself
Opening February 28, 2010, from 4-6 pm

Showing 13 artists who have nothing in common, except that they meet monthly to critique each other's work. These discussions are open, incisive, tough, fair, generous and tremendously helpful.

Current Exhibitions

DOUBLE DUTCH

September 12, 2009 – July 26, 2010
Double Dutch is an exhibition celebrating the Quadricentennial of the Dutch discovery and settlement of the Hudson River. The exhibition showcases contemporary Dutch installation art, and is on view through July 26, 2010.

FENDRY EKEL: Art and Architecture: A Way of Seeing the World

Opened September 12, 2009
As part of a focus on the Quadricentennial year of the Dutch settlement along the Hudson, HVCCA presents a solo exhibition by Fendry Ekel in the Mezannine Gallery. In this exhibition Ekel’s guaches and watercolors critically investigate the way in which buildings and monuments are used as a confirmation of power to seduce, manipulate and intimidate.

Ongoing Long-Term Installations

Folkert de Jong - Mount Maslow, 2007

Dutch artist Folkert de Jong is one of the most innovative young sculptors today. Inspired by Abraham Maslow’s “Theory of Human Motivation,” De Jong stages an 18-foot styrofoam snow mountain being scaled by two bearded figures. Hamburger Hill references an American assault on a Vietnam position in which most of the troops died and the hill had no strategic value.

Thomas Hirschhorn - Laundrette, 2001

Using commonplace materials such as cardboard, linoleum, postage tape and aluminum foil, Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn has recreated a full-scale replica of a laundrette, in which cardboard models of washing-machines are inset with television sets showing global atrocities downloaded from the internet juxtaposed to videos of the artist performing everyday, commonplace tasks. Hirschhorn, who has become the most celebrated international installation artist, challenges us to consider how poverty and neglect has led to human incivility.