Where To See: Museums Summer 2014
Katonah Museum of Art, 134 Jay St., Katonah • Iceland: Artists Respond to Place: This is the first US exhibition to focus on the relationship of contemporary Icelandic artists to the geography of their island nation. It showcases twelve artists whose works cover a broad range of formal approaches and media, including painting, photography, sculpture, site-specific wall-drawings, and video installation. Tues-Sat: 10am-5pm & Sun: 12-5pm. 6/29-9/28. www.katonahmuseum.org
Taylor Davis
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main St. Ridgefield, CT •. 50th Anniversary: The Aldrich Museum celebrates its 50th with a series of exhibitions presenting a retrospective on artists from the museum’s early years and separate exhibits from contemporary artists. (Standing in the Shadows of Love: The Aldrich Collection 1964-74) The first series presents works exhibited by the Aldrich in it’s first ten years including works by Robert Indiana, Robert Morris, Robert Rauschenberg, Ree Morton and Robert Smithson. Taylor Davis: If you steal a horse, and let him go, he’ll take you to the barn you stole him from: wood crafted sculptures, text based works, collages and shaped canvases that explore Minimalism and Op-art; Jessica Jackson 
Hutchins: Unicorn: eight installed works spanning video, sculpture, collage, monoprints, and a new large-scale sculpture that create abstract images through the use of everyday objects like stained sofas, tattered chairs, a baby grand piano mixed with hand molded ceramic objects and collaged prints; Michael Joo: Drift: a three part sculptural installation including a 1,400 square foot marble chamber, a laser beam that connects the Museum’s structure with it’s external landscape and a displacement of a cylinder core -drilled between The Aldrich’s first and second floors that has been transposed to the Museum’s rear stairwell; Michelle Lopez: Angels, Flags, Bangs: new and recent sculptures including three works from her Blue Angel series (above right) that use larger-than-life sized mirrored surfaces referencing crashed fuselages that recall the t
rauma of 9/11. Tues-Sun: 12-5pm. Through 9/21. David Diao: Front To Back: is one of a series of solo presentations during the 2014–15 anniversary year that features artists whose work was included in historic Aldrich exhibitions. This selection of paintings (left) from 1971 to 2012 presents a timeline of Diao’s exploration of Modernism. Tues-Sun: 12-5pm. 7/13-9/21. www.aldrichart.org
ArtsWestchester, 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains • STE(A)M: This exhibition explores the intersections of science, technology, engineering, math and creativity. Inspired by the STEM to STEAM dialogue in education. It presents artists using the interdisciplinary concepts of STEM to explore how science, technology and art overlap, interact, and innovate. Through 8/16. www.artswestchester.org
Boscobel Special Exhibit, 1601 Route 9D, Garrison The Hudson River Portfolio:
A Beginning for the Hudson River School: The Hudson 
River Portfolio, a suite of famous aquatints made between 1821 and 1825 includes 20 hand-colored prints used for a subscription-based campaign. Each picture depicts an iconic Hudson River view from north of Troy south to Governor’s Island. The portfolio is on loan from the Museum of the City of New York. Wed-Mon: 9:30am-5pm. 8/3-11/30. www.boscobel.org
Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT • Tales of Two Cities: New York and Beijing: Five pairs of artists from New York and Beijing offer works for this exhibit (below left) after two years of Skyping about global culture. Tues-Sat: 10am-5pm. Through 8/31. Greenwich Collects: Wyeth, Italian Renaissance Drawings, 
Chinese Antiquities: Greenwich is one of the most active centers for private art collecting in the world. This show illustrates the diversity of three local collections. Including a collection of rare Italian Renaissance and Baroque drawings; a portfolio of American art with a focus on the works of Andrew Wyeth; and an exhibition of ancient Chinese ceramics, from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). Tues-Sat: 10am-5pm. 7/6-8/31. Being, Nothingness and Much, Much More: Roz Chast, Beyond the New Yorker: 30 works by the well known cartoonist Roz Chast, including her iconic work from The New Yorker magazine, as well as prints, drawings, tapestries and painted eggs decorated with the artist’s signature images. Tues-Sat: 10am-5pm. 7/12-10/19. www.brucemuseum.org
Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, Contemporary Chinese Zen Art Meditations: A group exhibition of works by Du Jianq, Zheng Xuewu, Wang Yong, *Bibiana Huang Matheis. Inhabited: Wennie Huang is a mixed media and installation artist who has exhibited her work at Wave Hill, Chicago Cultural Center, as well as in group exhibitions throughout the world. Soumatou – Revolving Lantern, Tomoko Abe Ceramics: A mixed media wall sculptural installation exploring nature’s harmonies.Wed-Sat: 12-4pm. 6/18-9/6. www.hammondmuseum.org
Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Ave, Yonkers •Lily Cox-Richards: Possessing Powers: Six sculptures by Lily Cox Richards reflect on the works of neo-classical sculptor Hiram Powers, including his masterpiece, Eve Disconsolate, that is part of the museum’s permanent collection. Her six sculptures − The Stand (Possessing Powers) − are faithful to the sculptural traditions of Powers’ originals but Cox-Richard’s sculptures contain a 
striking omission − the figures themselves. Wed-Sun: 12-5pm. Through 9/14. Mandy Greer: The Ecstatic Moment: Seattle-based artist Mandy Greer’s site-specific installation creates a fantasy world of color that encompasses sculpture, photography, fabric wall panels, video, and performance. She draws her inspiration from ancient myths and fairy tales and incorporates her skills as a crochet artist into the wilderness of trees, mountains, waters and birds that inhabit her five installations that include a 12-foot red chandelier and a waterfall on the Museum’s main staircase made of 300 feet of fabric. Wed-Sun: 12-5pm. 6/7-9/14. www.hrm.org
Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase• ROBIN RHODE: ANIMATING THE EVERYDAY: An exhibition of thedigital videos and photography of the South-African born artist Robin Rhode. Her 
animations articulate drawing and movement; sound and image through everyday objects found in the streets and her parent’s back yard in Johannesburg – bicycles, chairs, musical instruments, and sports equipment – with an eye towards refashioning the works of artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Gerrit Rietveld, Mies van der Rohe, William Kentridge, and Richard Serra. Tues-Sun: 12-5pm. Through 8/10. WHEN MODERN WAS CONTEMPORARY: THE ROY R. NEUBERGER COLLECTION: The Roy R. Neuberger Collection, the cornerstone of the collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art, is one of the most important private collections of contemporary American art in the world. It portrays the evolution of modernism (below left) from World War I to the Cold War, and includes works from Milton Avery, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Arthur Dove, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. Tues-Sun: 12-5pm. Through 8/25. THE ART OF ZERO: Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, 
Günther Uecker & Friends: In the wake of devastation wrought by World War II, European artists, Heinz Mack and Otto Piene, who called themselves Group Zero, developed a new visual language to create “new art for a new age” by using materials and technology taken from science and industry. Group Zero’s attempt to re-harmonize the relationship between humankind and nature is explored in this exhibition through the works of 14 artists. Tues-Sun: 12-5pm: 7/13- 9/28. www.neuberger.org
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