WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY ART AT BARD?


This is an ongoing project initiated by the graduate students of CCS Bard. We invite you to help us map what contemporary art is at Bard College. Anyone can become a contributor to this blog, just click here to add a post of your own. Questions? Email them to lp6795@bard.edu.

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This is a piece by Sasson Soffer, an international artist, who has installed other stainless steel, public sculptures on University campuses around the world. [posted by Courtney Malick]This is a piece by Sasson Soffer, an international artist, who has installed other stainless steel, public sculptures on University campuses around the world. [posted by Courtney Malick]

This is a piece by Sasson Soffer, an international artist, who has installed other stainless steel, public sculptures on University campuses around the world.

[posted by Courtney Malick]

Notes on an Interview: Tom Wolf

Tom Wolf - Professor of Art History

“The newly renovated exhibition space in the Fisher Studio Arts Building permits an ambitious schedule of exhibitions, which are an integral component of the program. In addition to open student exhibitions, Senior Project shows, and Moderation exhibitions, student work on particular themes is exhibited at student-curated and faculty-curated shows. Exhibitions of work by outside artists, selected by independent curators, are also presented each year” – Bard Website

In addition to curating shows in the Fisher Studio Arts Building, Tom Wolf has organized various exhibitions and lecture series held on Bard campus. In March 2008, Wolf exhibited works done by New York City graffiti artist Nelson Keene Carse. The show took place in the Reem Kayden Science Building with the hope of integrating visual art into a non-traditional exhibition space.

(posted by Julia Paoli)

This is one of the phrases imprinted in the concrete entrance/walkway leading to the CCS building and Hessel Museum, by Lawrence Weiner, entitled, Bard Enter, 2004.  This project was initiated in 2004, but not completed until 2006, and was made possible largely in part by Executive Director Tom Eccles. [posted by Courtney Malick]This is one of the phrases imprinted in the concrete entrance/walkway leading to the CCS building and Hessel Museum, by Lawrence Weiner, entitled, Bard Enter, 2004.  This project was initiated in 2004, but not completed until 2006, and was made possible largely in part by Executive Director Tom Eccles. [posted by Courtney Malick]

This is one of the phrases imprinted in the concrete entrance/walkway leading to the CCS building and Hessel Museum, by Lawrence Weiner, entitled, Bard Enter, 2004.  This project was initiated in 2004, but not completed until 2006, and was made possible largely in part by Executive Director Tom Eccles.

[posted by Courtney Malick]

This is a flag outside of CCS, made by Rachel Harrison, for her current exhibition ‘Consider the Lobster’ at the CCS Galleries.  The first flag on the flag pole was made by Frank Benson, and later another, by Peter Coffin, was bought by Tom Eccles.  It was on the suggestion of Marcia Acita that Rachel Harrison was asked to create her own flag emblem for her show, though it is not considered a true work of art.  When Harrison’s show is over, either the Benson or Coffin flag will be hung. [posted by Courtney Malick]This is a flag outside of CCS, made by Rachel Harrison, for her current exhibition ‘Consider the Lobster’ at the CCS Galleries.  The first flag on the flag pole was made by Frank Benson, and later another, by Peter Coffin, was bought by Tom Eccles.  It was on the suggestion of Marcia Acita that Rachel Harrison was asked to create her own flag emblem for her show, though it is not considered a true work of art.  When Harrison’s show is over, either the Benson or Coffin flag will be hung. [posted by Courtney Malick]

This is a flag outside of CCS, made by Rachel Harrison, for her current exhibition ‘Consider the Lobster’ at the CCS Galleries.  The first flag on the flag pole was made by Frank Benson, and later another, by Peter Coffin, was bought by Tom Eccles.  It was on the suggestion of Marcia Acita that Rachel Harrison was asked to create her own flag emblem for her show, though it is not considered a true work of art.  When Harrison’s show is over, either the Benson or Coffin flag will be hung.

[posted by Courtney Malick]

This is a work by Roger Phillips, in front of the entrance to the Student Center.  The red discs rotate in the wind, causing a constant movement of the piece that mimics that of the leaves of the surrounding trees. [posted by Courtney Malick]This is a work by Roger Phillips, in front of the entrance to the Student Center.  The red discs rotate in the wind, causing a constant movement of the piece that mimics that of the leaves of the surrounding trees. [posted by Courtney Malick]

This is a work by Roger Phillips, in front of the entrance to the Student Center.  The red discs rotate in the wind, causing a constant movement of the piece that mimics that of the leaves of the surrounding trees.

[posted by Courtney Malick]

This is a sculpture and fountain donated by artist Paul Bury, on Stone Row. [posted by Courtney Malick]This is a sculpture and fountain donated by artist Paul Bury, on Stone Row. [posted by Courtney Malick]

This is a sculpture and fountain donated by artist Paul Bury, on Stone Row.

[posted by Courtney Malick]