Past Exhibitions
2006-2024
2024
PAIK ON STAGE
At Syracuse Stage
January 19 - May 16, 2024
This exhibit displayed original works by the visionary Korean artist Nam June Paik, commemorating the pivotal role that the City of Syracuse and the Central New York region played in spearheading innovation in the arts during the 1970s. Nam June Paik, a luminary in the realm of contemporary art, is widely recognized as the “father of video art" and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
2023
THE BORDER IS A WEAPON
Curated by Gil Rocha
September 29 - November 10, 2023
A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people. Featuring work by Angel Cabrales, Cande Aguilar, Daniela Cavazos, Jose Villalobos, Juan de Dios Mora, Maritza Bautista, and Ruben Luna. Presented in collaboration with the Laredo Center for the Arts and the Museum Studies Program at Syracuse University.
REFLECT/REFLEJA
Curated by Juan Juarez
February 10 - March 5, 2023
Reflect/Refleja is a visual imagining inspired by Espejos: Clean at Syracuse Stage. These works are from Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact’s permanent collection and showcase various experimental photographic and mixed media conceptual approaches by artists with close associations to Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact. The works are a reflection of Espejos: Clean’s narrative and bilingual interchange between Spanish and English.
2022
STEADY/RETCON
Syracuse University’s 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Curated by Laura Dvorkin
A literary and cinematic technique, retcon is the abbreviation of retroactive continuity and means a new piece of information introduced to a story that alters the interpretation of an established narrative. Artists here evaluate and reframe their personal histories and standards of art-making. While in everyday life, the constant introduction of facts and opinions appears erratic, the investigations in the artwork are more intentional, slower-paced, steady.
2021
NOLI ME TANGERE
Kelvin Burzon
Curated by Sara Felice
August 30 - December 1, 2021
Noli Me Tangere, “touch me not” or “don’t tread on me,” (Latin) is a series of photographs by Filipino-American artist Kelvin Burzon, that address, but do not aim to solve, the contentions between Catholicism and homosexuality.
In October 2021, Point of Contact hosted an artist talk followed by a panel discussion between Kelvin Burzon, exhibiting artist; Jorge Castillo, Director of the LGBT Resource Center at SU; Father Fred Daley, Pastor of All Saints Church, and Juan Juarez, visual artist and faculty member at Syracuse University’s School of Art.
CARRYING THE THICK PRESENT
Katlyn Brumfield, Ellery Bryan, Jihun Choi, Alvin Huang, Catherine Spencer, Dahee Yun
Syracuse University’s MFA 2021 Thesis Exhibition
March 29 - May 21 2021
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Over a year of life with the pandemic had passed. During that time, the artists in this exhibition experienced isolation, loss, and grief. These works emerged out of such conditions, out of the uncertainty of precarious presents. Artists had to reconsider their practice and rethink their (and our) ways of being with others. Under such circumstances, they have found in art-making a way to cultivate their conditions for ongoingness, healing, and staying alive.
2020
REWRITING HISTORY
Fabiola Juan-Louis
Curated by Sara Felice
September 7 - November 20, 2020
Haitian-American artist Fabiola Jean-Louis explores the relationship between history, memory, and identity. Her use of paper acts as a tether linking the present to a past when paper was not just a basic currency but held the power to determine the freedom of a human being. From her paper gowns to the printed photographs, Jean-Louis guides us along her journey through the lens of time, bringing forth an awareness of the past that is both delicate and vital.
ADAPT CNY 6th SUMART SHOW
Curated by Sara Felice
July 1 - 30, 2020
Adapt CNY’s Public Arts Task Force (PATF) and Point of Contact Gallery co-hosted their 6th annual community summer art show. This exhibition showcased a variety of styles from Central New York artists. In response to COVID-19, this exhibition took place virtually across Point of Contact’s and ADAPT CNY's social media platforms.
2019
THE IMAGINED WORD
Rafael Trelles
Co-curated by Tere Paniagua and Sara Felice
January 13 - March 13, 2020
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The Imagined Word included twenty-two works on paper by Puerto Rican artist Rafael Trelles. Produced between 2017 and 2019, these drawings combine painting and printmaking elements and feature protagonists from various literary sources. Throughout this series, Trelles masterfully weaves together themes of memory and reality; magic and the mundane; and art and literature. In The Imagined Word, Trelles employs references to Hispanic mythology and world literature. Influenced by surrealist Max Ernst, he brings the viewer on a voyage to an esoteric world of characters in dreamlike settings, where solitude reigns.
WHEN THE WIND COMES RIGHT BEHIND THE RAIN
Rebecca Aloisio, Patti Capaldi, Jennifer Paige Cohen, Melinda Lascynski, Fabian Marcaccio, Paul O’Keefe, Bret Shirley, Sarah Sutton
Curated by Sara Felice
October 21, 2019 - December 13, 2019
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Within the framework of luxury, conspicuous consumption, and materialistic value systems, the artists in this exhibition collectively allude to displacement as a result of late capitalism and the hostile climate that it nurtures—referencing the antagonistic relationship between capitalistic excess and the environment, the self and a sense of place.
ARTEMISIA
Lucia Warck-Meister
Curated by Sara Felice
August 29 - October 4, 2019
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In ARTEMISIA, Argentine artist Lucia Warck-Meister interprets the story of Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi’s sexual assault that changed the way she saw herself, through the use of red satin, beads, metallic polyester, charcoal, and porcelain. Materials that contrast their intrinsic characteristics are nevertheless united in a powerful embrace.
TIME CHANGES EVERYTHING
Margie Hughto, Darcy Gerbarg, Beth Bischoff and Franco Andres
Curated by Sara Felice
July 12 - August 9, 2019
Each artist in Time Changes Everything battles the temporality of human existence and the material world constructed around it. Bischoff’s photography expresses a harmony of the past and present depicting the ruins left in the world’s progression. Ceramist Margie Hughto draws inspiration from landfills and remains left by humans in the creation of her Excavation Series. Gerbarg forms The Syracuse Pictures, which abstract the world into its own heterotopia, existing in both the past and present. Andres realizes the difficulty of authenticity for artists as he utilizes an accumulation of mediums in the formation of one’s identity.
PLANS ARE CANCELLED
Taylor Clock, Candice Corgan, Megan G King, Rene Gortat, Jeremy Tarr, and Jie Wang.
Syracuse University’s MFA 2019 Thesis Exhibition
April 1 - May 10, 2019
Curated by Scott Campbell
DREAM BIRD, HATCHING THE EGG
Susan Stainman
Curated by Sara Felice
February 8 - March 15, 2019
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Dream Bird, Hatching the Egg included works that explore the interconnection between Buddhist philosophy, meditation, and the creative process. Stainman’s work creates a visual metaphor of her personal experience with sensuality and color. The tactility of her work draws the viewer in through the body as a means of manipulation, lulling them into mental relaxation and an experience of the natural mind.
2018
GEO
Marta Chilindron
Co-curated by Tere Paniagua and Sara Felice
November 8, 2018 - January 25, 2019
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A selection of both contrasting and complementary works by Marta Chilindron. Works range from the geometrically abstract to the organic and the environmental. While at first glance these aesthetic styles appear to be seemingly contradictory, this exhibition aims to highlight the common ground—the Point of Contact—where the works’ shared formal elements emerge.
LOOK NOW: Facing Breast Cancer
October 8 – October 31, 2018
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Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer breaks down the barriers between a survivor’s public persona and their private struggles with the disease. In 2010, Tula Goenka, herself a breast cancer survivor, was the first of three subjects to be photographed for a prototype of the project. She relaunched Look Now as a photography exhibition and multimedia installation with a new collaborative team. Cindy Bell, also a breast cancer survivor, was the project photographer.
SUEÑOS: CELEBRATING THE SURREAL
Curated by Natalie McGrath
August 27 – September 21, 2018
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Titled after the Spanish translation for “dreams”, Sueños: Celebrating the Surreal featured works by contemporary Latin American artists that shared the characteristics of dream-like imagery, including Salvador Dalí, Mauricio Lasansky, Joseph Kugielsky, Adàl Maldonado, Pedro Roth, and more, This exhibition was a collaborative project between the Community Folk Art Center, Light Work, Point of Contact, and Syracuse University Art Museum. Curated by Natalie McGrath, with exhibition design consultation by visual artist and Syracuse University faculty, Juan Juarez.
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
Eric Charlton, Joan Farrenkopf, Marilyn Koch, Jo Yu Lee, Katie Levesque, and Luxin Zhang
Syracuse University’s MFA 2018 Thesis Exhibition
Curated by Shehab Awad, Institute of Arab and Islamic Art, New York City
March 26 – May 11, 2018
Featured an array of paintings, sculptures, video, and installations, a collection of works that, through their staging and materiality, seek to radicalize traditional modes of art-making and subvert our perception of space and reality.
SOFT WHITE
Andrew Havenhand
February 6 – March 12, 2018
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Soft White was comprised of wall-based pieces of mixed media incorporating lace fabric, paint, foam, and lighting. Together the work forms a dialogue referencing the applied and fine arts, natural phenomena, domesticity, time, ritual, geography, and emotional condition.
2017
BOÎTE-EN-VALISE
Yvonne Buchanan (USA), Mia Delve (UK), Tom Hall (UK/USA), Mika Mollenkopf (USA), Harold Offeh (UK), Susan Stockwell (UK), with Syracuse-based guest artist, Abisay Puente (Cuba)
October 19 – December 15, 2017
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From the United Kingdom to the 2017 Venice Biennale, a collective of international contemporary artists brought this exhibition to the Point of Contact Gallery and Syracuse University. Boîte-en-Valise encourages transportability of practice, the nurturing of collaboration, and cross-fertilization of artistic practice. For Boîte-en-Valise artists worked with individuals and communities in Portsmouth and Syracuse to develop work that included sculpture, performance, video, photography, and sound as well as interventions and conversations.
ALEPH
Pedro Roth
Co-curated by Tere Paniagua and Sara Felice
August 29 -October 7, 2017
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“Before, we were the Aleph, now we are transporters of the Aleph. We became dependent, enslaved by this invention. We talk about virus, viralize. We talk about it as if it were a symptom, something that is out there, from which we are contaminated. We trust our memory to it, our knowing. We fear something may happen to it. Borges destroys the Aleph, as Rabbi Loew does the Golem. They do not want to be slaves to their own creation. They realize that, in the wrong hands, this is a weapon. The Aleph as a fantasy is marvelous, but as a reality…”
-Pedro Roth
CORPUS
Juan Juarez
February 16 – March 17, 2017
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Corpus examines decay and nothingness through a multi-media installation. A neglected residence becomes a symbolic metaphor for the gradual decay of the body and mind over time. The artist explores the human desire to leave tangible remains, which creates the ambiance of physical existence. Juarez compares the deterioration of mind and body through aging to the neglect and ruin decay of the structural integrity of a home. Both experiences of home encompass a physical and an emotional presence.
OBSCURUS
Sunyoung Lee, Teo Yamanidze, Joseph Turek, and Tong Zhang
January 19 – February 4, 2017
The more things there are in the world, the more gaps that exist between them, and the less we understand. Those who continue to look at something and begin to notice more and more, lose the definition of the whole. Art objects, especially paintings, take on a contemplative quality almost immediately. Sometimes they fade into the obscurity of other images, but this interplay between vaguery and knowable is what injects vitality.
CONTINUUM
The Point of Contact Art Collection at the Palitz Gallery in New York City
November 14, 2016 – February 2, 2017
Point of Contact celebrates 40 Years through the lens of its permanent art collection, providing a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. The selection of works included artists from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, England, Germany, Israel, South Korea, Puerto Rico, Russia, the United States, and Uruguay.
2016
WITHIN WALLS
Karin Waisman
November 3 – December 10, 2016
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This body of work reflects upon the natural process of growth and decay. Each piece, made out of many cast or modeled fragments, is the outcome of the process of making it. The wall, no longer flat, becomes the concrete support of the work. A mural like quality of the pieces transforms the wall into a tactile and intricate sensuous surface. Ornament and wall become a metaphor for a time caught between permanence and evanescence.
WOE: GLOBALIZED SADNESS
Juan Cavallero
Curated by Miranda Troudt
September 16 – October 22, 2016
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Juan Cavallero explores the borderless nature of human desperation and poverty through photography, compelling viewers to confront uncomfortable situations that are often ignored. By doing so, Cavallero aims to give back identity to the countless around the world that have become invisible and forgotten.
THE BLUE OF RUINS
Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Curated by Liliana Ramos Collado
March 24 – June 4, 2016
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Arnaldo Roche’s “blue” paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping, and rubbing on the material’s surface to explore what is left of the subject. Concerning his process, the artist Roche states “I’m trying to see what I cannot see, by looking with my hands.” Many of the works include still-life and self-portrait, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as a subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. Mind and body, object and subject, art and nature come to a crisis of form in works that portray an exploded body, a denatured nature, and artworks about to come apart.
PIN THE TAIL
Catalina Schliebener
February 4 – March 12, 2016
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Site-specific installation depicts icons related to youth that implicitly reveal norms associated with the construction of gender, identity, and class.
2015
CONTINUUM
Point of Contact, 40th Anniversary
Co-curated by Pedro Cuperman, Tere Paniagua and Miranda Troudt
Sept 16 – Dec 12, 2015
CONTINUUM is the story of Point of Contact’s journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving and advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art.
DARKINESS/DETRITUS/ILLUMINATIONS
Eduardo Lalo
Co-curated by Tere Paniagua and Miranda Troudt
March 26 – April 25, 2015
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Darkness/Detritus/Illuminations, includes ink drawings, black and white photographs, and videos that explore the kinesthetic sensation of movement and of personal absence that takes place as an artist when creating works of art. Through a series of 3 poems and almost 100 works of art, Eduardo Lalo examines the idea of eliminating the mind from the creation process and focusing on perpetual, almost obsessive, movements of the body as it forms gestures and marks. Lalo describes this action as a fundamental expression of what it is to be human and states that “to draw is to revisit ceaselessly this discontent and this finding.”
SUSPENDED MEMORIES
Liene Bosque
Curated by Miranda Troudt
January 29 – March 14, 2015
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Bosquê focuses on the history of vernacular as well as iconic architecture of small and big cities. In reinterpreting symbolic constructions into miniature sculptures that allude to travel souvenirs, the artist tackles not only concepts of collection but also notions of personal and collective memories. Bosquê is interested in the meanings that human beings attach to places and objects, and how such experiences can serve as catalysts to alter public perspectives, inserting them into private domains.
A Long History Cut Short
Paul Dresden, Brent Erickson, Shorty Greene, Kevin Larmon, Jane McCurn, Landon Perkins,
Eli Show, Taro Takizawa, and Stefan Zoller.
December 20, 2014 – January 16, 2015
Printmakers at Syracuse University explore the boundaries of what is and can be considered “print” in both traditional and non-traditional approaches.
2014
MOMENTS OF PLACE
Gwenn Thomas
Co-curated by Pedro Cuperman and Miranda Troudt
October 16 – December 12, 2014
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Photographs of doors and windows embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of a lived space, Thomas’ window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within.
LAST
Dorene Quinn
Curated by Miranda Troudt
August 19- October 8, 2014
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The dual meaning of the word “last” is the genesis of the work. Through mixed media installations, Quinn calls her audience into action to make this “last”, to remain.
LEARNING TO SEE
EL PUNTO Art Studio
May 3 – June 27, 2014
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An exhibition featuring young talent from Syracuse, NY including performance, photography, and video art. Learning to See consists of work produced in EL PUNTO Art Studio, an interdisciplinary arts education program offered in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, and the Pal Project.
SHARPLY INTO A LIGHT SPACE
Gladys Triana
Co-curated by Pedro Cuperman and Miranda Troudt
February 27 – April 25, 2014
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Photography that evokes a universe and signals the threatening situation caused by climate change. Triana re-creates a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness.
DOMESTIC VICISSITUDES
Analia Segal
Co-curated by Pedro Cuperman and Miranda Troudt
January 16 – February 21, 2014
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Comprised of both a site-specific installation and large scale video projection, this exhibition navigates the porous boundaries between art, design and architecture intertwining the conceptual, aesthetic and functional nature of the objects that compose the everyday scenarios we live in.
2013
TANGO OPERA
Point of Contact Gallery’s inaugural exhibit & opening event at the Nancy Cantor Warehouse
Co-curated by Pedro Cuperman and Tere Paniagua
November 15 – December 20, 2013
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Point of Contact’s inaugural exhibit at the Warehouse Bldg., featured the Tango portfolio, a series of eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves alongside eleven sheets of prose by Pedro Cuperman, that explore the steps of the Argentinian dance, the tango. The event also featured tango dancing and a live performance by soprano Catalina Cuervo from the cast of Syracuse Opera’s 2013 production María de Buenos Aries.
CROSSINGS
Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos
Co-curated by Pedro Cuperman and Tere Paniagua
March 8 – April 26, 2013
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The use of the word crossings points to journeys and intersections explored by Nayda Collazo-Lloréns and Patricia Villalobos in this collaborative project, dealing with time and space, crossbreeding, gender-crossing, and other hybrid, cross-disciplinary modalities. It also alludes to sites of convergence between the artistic practices whether dealing with location, mapping, identity, memory, or multiplicity. This exhibition presented a series of thirteen works on paper, and a two-channel video installation titled PLEXUS13NP.
2012
MEDITATION ON VIDEO (&) LANGUAGE
Tom Sherman
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
October 25 – November 30, 2012
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A selection of work on video and a series of drawings by artist Tom Sherman. This exhibit also presented a retrospective of Sherman’s work.
INK GEOGRAPHIES
Oscar Garcés
Co-curated by Pedro Cuperman and Tere Paniagua
September 20 – October 20, 2012
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The first solo show by Cuban artist Oscar Garcés, part of The Other New York: TONY 2012, a city-wide art expo that engaged 14 arts organizations and venues across the City of Syracuse.
TIME, AGAIN TIME
Ana Tiscornia
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
March 23 – May 1, 2012
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A mixed media installation, an artist’s obsession with reorganizing her world; the outcome of a fragmented world where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical. The artist and the viewer reconstruct, reintegrate the work, and our world.
CONSTRAIN/CONTAIN
Sam Horowitz
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
January 27 – March 15, 2012
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Cardboard, created initially to contain other entities, functions as content. The uncharacteristic content invites the viewer to reconsider forms, functions and limitations of these recognizable, re-purposed relics, and pokes fun at our decreasing flexibility, our increasing demands and the collective loss of craft, localized-innovation and repair.
RE VISIONS
Michael Burkard, Tessa Kennedy & Jay Muhlin
January 17 – January 20, 2012
Three artistic practices in conversation with image and text. Collecting, processing, drafting…and when are you done?
2011
EDIFICE
Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
September 29 – November 4, 2011
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Installation works by Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter with guest Andrew Witkin, in response to the structure of Witkin’s writings.
LEFTOVERS FOR DINNER
Becky Reiser & Alexander Svoboda
August 18 – September 15, 2011
Syracuse University Sculpture student show.
YOUR WORDS TODAY
EL PUNTO Art Studio
May 6 – June 23, 2011
A mural collage created by young artists and writers from our local community.
A VIDEO ART PROJECT
Jamie Davidovich
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
March 10 – April 29, 2011
Jaime Davidovich returned to Syracuse University after a year of grand-scale museum exhibitions worldwide, to present a series of his classic videos along with collage, photography, and paintings produced on site.
SPANGLISH
Celeste Fichter
November 17, 2010 – January 13, 2011
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
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Drawing, collage, photography and video, Spanglish is based solely on the artist’s understanding and misunderstanding of the Spanish language.
2010
ALEJANDRA
Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Lloréns (Puerto Rico), Mary Giehl (USA), and Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Canada)
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
February 26 – April 30, 2010
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An artist collective presenting work inspired by the life of Alejandra Pizarnik, one of Argentina’s most revered poets. These works first appeared in the Point of Contact edition titled Alejandra (2010).
STORYTELLING: AN EXPERIMENT IN VISUAL NARRATIVE
Pedro Roth
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
November 19, 2009 – February 4, 2010
Following two solo exhibitions at Buenos Aires’ Sivori Museum and the Recoleta Cultural Center, Roth returns to Syracuse to present this collection of drawings that evolves from the work he presented in Argentina in 2009. Roth invents a world of multiple figures drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to a dear friend telling stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends.
2009
SLOW SCANDAL
Marco Maggi
Co-curated by Anja Chavez and Pedro Cuperman
September 17 – November 7, 2009
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Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols), spatially, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi’s work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns.
THE GALLERY AS STUDIO: DRAWING ON DELIRIUM
Ricardo Lanzarini
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
March 19 – September 4, 2009
Ricardo Lanzarini recreates the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings made to unexpected scales, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window to a miniature world, frozen in time.
2008
THE GOLEM: VISUAL VISITATIONS
Pedro Roth, Víctor Vázquez, Doug DuBois, Leandro Katz, Tom Sherman, Marta Chilindrón, and Sarah Kipp
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
October 28, 2008 – February 27, 2009
Installation, Video, Photography & Performance. A poem by Jorge Luis Borges inspires the works of this exhibit.
PAIK & CAGE
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
September 18 – October 16, 2008
A series of works by Nam June Paik from the Point of Contact Art Collection were complemented by photographs of John Cage by Raoul Sentenat. Paik and Cage were the focus of the Point of Contact edition On Silence (2002), for which several of the works in the collection were created by Paik, including the cover and back-cover designs.
LABYRINTHS
Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
April 3 – June 20, 2008
A maze of mirrors was the setting for a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7ft tall mirrored panels formed this massive installation that complicated and multiplied the space of the gallery, infiltrating the viewer.
2007
PLAYTHINGS
Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter, & Ami Suma
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
February 15 – March 30, 2007
In Woman Veritas
Burt Barr, Marta Chilindrón & Eduardo Costa, Maureen Connor, Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin, & Joseph Kugielsky
Curated by Tere Paniagua
January 19 – February 9, 2007
Photography from the Point of Contact Art Collection
2006
NAM JUNE PAIK: NINE RARE WORKS
From the Point of Contact Art Collection
Co-curated by Pedro Cuperman and Owen Shapiro
Fall 2006
Korean-born avant-garde artist and composer, Nam June Paik, pioneered video as an art form in the 1960s by combining multiple TV screens with sculpture, music and live performers. Trained in music, aesthetics and philosophy, he was a member of the 1960s art movement Fluxus, which was in part inspired by composer John Cage’s use of everyday sounds in music. Paik always remained true to his Fluxus-inspired critical position. He died in February 2006.
DIALOGUES & SOLOS
Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Curated by Pedro Cuperman
October 13- December 15, 2006