Completed Exhibitions « CuratorSquared

PROCESS IN PRACTICE

To understand the richness and breadth of the practice of design resulting from a course of study in the Design Communications Department, Pratt Institute, we are highlighting alumni designers from the BFA and MFA programs, each of whose path and practice is distinct.

Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined

In many major cities, recycling is part of daily life. We are well aware of the environmental crisis: waste and pollution increase as natural resources diminish and a fragile environmental balance is assaulted. This exhibition will be the first to bring together work by an international group of designers who are boldly and inventively responding to the current state of our natural environment in their designs that re-imagine discarded materials and waste products from agriculture and manufacturing into handsome and useful products.

DESIGN BY TIME

Design by Time explores how the notion of the dynamic passage of time can be embodied within design objects. Examples come from many sectors of the design world: textiles, carpets, ceramics, lighting fixtures, fashion, clocks and furniture for example.

SCIENCE | FICTION

The line that delineates science from fiction is blurred. Science fuels fiction. What was once fictional moves into the realm of science. In the work of the 12 international artists, the boundaries between science and fiction, art and fact, disappear.

BAGGAGE CLAIMS

Ginger Gregg Duggan/Judith Hoos Fox/Orlando Museum of Art, Florida, 2017 Essay by curators with contributions from Brian Ulrich, photographer, and Vidhu Aggarwal, poet. Fully illustrated, 82 pages. Designed by Michael Caibio. (available from Orlando Museum of Art)

Clarissa Tossin: Stereoscopic Vision

ORGANIZER AND DATES Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut January 31-March 5, 2017 DESCRIPTION In medical terms, stereoscopic vision refers to the single perception of a different image from each eye blending into a uniform whole. Tossin deftly presents or infers two disparate impressions in each of her works, forcing the viewer […]

BAGGAGE CLAIMS

Baggage Claims is the first exhibition to examine new work by artists across the globe, known and emerging, who are exploring the rich and timely territory of trunks, suitcases, luggage and crates as conveyers of mobility — global mobility, mobility of populations and emotional mobility.

CODED_COUTURE

The idea of customization has always been at the heart of couture. This exhibition will feature designers whose approach to personalization is sympathetic to the allure of haute couture, but whose approach is rooted in coding.

EVAN ROTH // INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DONOR

Evan Roth is a pioneer. At the intersection of free culture with popular culture, where viral media meets art, and graffiti connects with technology–this is the irregular zone that Roth’s work occupies. He explores the relationship between misuse and empowerment…

MetaModern

Preservationists have noted that the most vulnerable time for architecture is fifty years after construction: the structure is out of fashion but not yet historic. It looms as outdated, not yet historic or nostalgic. The architecture of the 1950s has just passed through this danger zone, and along with the furniture and furnishings of that era, are prized, collectible and even have become the basis for a body of work by artists who, too young to have experienced this design when it was new, largely know of the period through…