Event Date and Time:
March 26, 2009 – April 18, 2009
10am - 7pm weekdays, noon to 5pm on Saturdays
Location:
Gulf + Western Gallery (rear lobby) and the 8th Floor Gallery
721 Broadway
Third of 4 Shows Featuring Thesis Projects from the Class of 2009 Opens March 26th
An exhibition featuring a wide variety of works in photography, digital imaging, and multimedia, including more than 40 works by 8 graduating seniors from the class of 2009 in the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television will open March 26, 2009. It will remain on view at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts through April 18, 2009.
Entitled, THESIS 3.26.09, the show is the third in a series of four exhibitions, that will eventually showcase the work of the entire graduating class in a BFA exhibition. It is installed in Gulf + Western Gallery (rear lobby) and the 8th Floor Gallery at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place). Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays, and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. Photo identification is required for access to the building. For further information, call 212.998.1930 or visit photo.tisch.nyu.edu.
The exhibition features artists: Kally Fundingsland investigates attraction and cinematic influence with lighting and art direction by using the photographic lens to deconstruct the cinematic gaze, bringing up themes of gender, sexuality, punishment and death in the horror genre; Sarah Getto uses the camera as a vehicle for arriving at a closer understanding of feminine and maternal archetypes through an in-depth series of portraits of her mother that are intimately concerned with the subject’s life as a woman and wife; Julie Goldstone’s Somewhere Else is a take on the rhythms of the 21st century and a study of the way in which we create ephemeral little worlds in the midst of constant flux; Jess Krakowski explores the relationship between movement and traditional uses of domestic space in a video installation; Lexi Lambros' images are a depiction of a larger whole through a critical comparison of the size of the human body in relation to the environment. Gabrielle Lurie presents a series of images from India that investigate her own experiences and the genre of photojournalism; Krystal Lin presents a muti-media installation “This is about capacity.”; Natalie Olzack reinterprets images and stories so as to embrace their comingling associations through an installation that questions the arrangement of narrative by inviting the viewer to reconstruct a new story from her photographs; Dan Sakamoto has built a family of techno-beings which blur the line between inanimate object and living creatures that can be observed and made to react to people- but one can only wonder what goes on inside their heads?
The Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts is a four-year B.F.A. program centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. Situated within New York University, the program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum and a serious and broad grounding in the liberal arts.
