The Edward Hopper House is pleased to collaborate with the Nyack Library to present our series of Art Talks. These Art Talks are open to the public and we look forward to sharing them with you!
UPCOMING ART TALK
SATURDAY, January 25, 2019 - 2PMA Human In Nature: Rodney SmithThe Nyack Library and Edward Hopper House invite you to join us for a conversation with curator Leslie Smolan as she discusses artist Rodney Smith and the "Human In Nature: The Art & Wit of Rodney Smith" exhibition.
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SATURDAY, october 25, 2019 - 2PMBuilding an artist's homeThe Nyack Library and Edward Hopper House invite you to join us for a conversation with curator Kirsten Jensen and artist Michael Banning as they discuss the "HOPPER/HAMMERSHØI" exhibition, and Banning's career.
Michael Banning’s paintings and drawings of contemporary American landscapes and domestic interiors have been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions in Chicago, Denver, New York, and Minneapolis, where he has been represented by the Groveland Gallery since 1998. Banning is the recipient of multiple grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs as well as the recipient of a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant. His work is in the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Wisconsin Historical Society, Weisman Art Museum, Target Corporation, and the Securian Corporation, in addition to numerous private collections. Banning has taught drawing, painting, and design at Columbia College Chicago, the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design where he is currently a Visiting Artist in the MFA Program. Kirsten M. Jensen, PhD, is the Gerry & Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown Pennsylvania. She was the curator and director of research for the John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonne. She has been the curator at the Hudson River Museum, and was a Leon Levy Fellow at The Frick Collection in New York, NY. |
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SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2019 - 2PMMessages In BottlesThe Nyack Library and Edward Hopper House invite you to join us for a conversation with curator Richard Kendall and artist Alastair Noble as they discuss the "Message in a Bo(a)ttle" exhibition, and Noble's career. .
Alastair Noble has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. His practice is a response to architecture and the natural environment and investigates particular sites in the context of literature, poetry or philosophical texts of authors such as; Mallarme, Marinetti, Mayakovsky, Wittgenstein. The Library of Babel and On the Exactitude of Science by Jorge Luis Borges have been the subjects of his recent projects. The latter text he transposed into a series of environmental interventions entitled Mapping Arcadia. These are investigations into alternative methods of mapping the landscape. Additionally, he writes on sculpture and architecture for international sculpture magazines and journals. He has taught and lectured at numerous colleges and universities where he has organized symposia on the role of Public Sculpture.
Richard Kendall is an English art historian and curator who has written widely on Impressionism and particularly the work of Edgar Degas. After study at the Courtauld Institute he became Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University from 1974 to 1987, and curated the exhibitions ‘Degas; Images of Women’ at Tate Liverpool in 1989; ‘Degas Landscapes’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1993; and ‘Degas: Beyond Impressionism’ at the National Gallery, London, in 1996. After moving to the USA in 2000, he worked with Jill DeVonyar on the exhibitions ‘Degas and the Dance’ in 2002-02 and ‘Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement’ at the Royal Academy in 2011. After joining the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute as Curator-at- Large, he curated among other exhibitions, ‘Picasso Looks at Degas’ (2010), and ‘Van Gogh and Nature’ (2105). He is now an independent scholar. |
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SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2019 - 2PM
Mark Dery:
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Saturday, October 13, 2018 - 2pmLet's Talk MILTON GLASERJoin us for a conversation with local design guru Ken Carbone as he interviews graphic artist/illustrator, Barbara Nessim, a close friend of Milton Glaser, who worked side by side with him in the early 1960's. Ken will share his perspective about Milton's professional influence on design while Barbara will discuss how she knew Milton personally.
Ken Carbone is a designer, artist, musician, author, and teacher. For more then 40 years, he has been the Creative Director and Artist-in-Residence for the internationally renowned design firm Carbone Smolan Agency, which he co-founded in New York City in 1977. Ken is the author of The Virtuoso: Face to Face with 40 Extraordinary Talents. He is also the co-author of "Dialog": What Makes a Great Design Partnership, which celebrates his collaboration with Leslie Smolan. He is a professor at the School of Visual Arts, and a blogger for Fast Company and Huffington Post. He received the 2014 AIGA Medal in recognition of his contributions to the field of design and visual communication. A Bronx native, Barbara Nessim graduated from Pratt where she studied Graphic Art and Illustration. As a young, single, professional woman in the early 1960s, her career as an illustrator broke conventions of all sorts. With the encouragement and support of several key people, in particular Robert Weaver, Nessim’s professor at Pratt, she soon caught the attention of Milton Glaser, among others, who welcomed the much junior Nessim into their circle. The lengthy and impressive list of publications in which her illustrations have appeared include, New York Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, Essence Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, Ms. Magazine, Print Magazine, Savvy, and Working Women. |
Ken Carbone, in his studio. Photo courtesy of Ken Carbone.
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Barbara Nessim
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Saturday, July 21, 2018 - 2pmCLAUDIA ALVAREZ : BOY IN A ROOMInterviewed by curator Jill DeVonyar, Claudia Alvarez will speak about her ceramic sculptural installations of child-sized figures imbued with adult-like characteristics. For the exhibition, "Boy In A Room," at Edward Hopper House, Alvarez has created childlike figures in the image of Edward Hopper as a way of thinking about Hopper reflecting back at himself from childhood to adulthood.
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Claudia Alvarez, Smoker, 2018, Glazed Ceramics, 28 x 10 x 9 in. (detail)
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Saturday, April 28, 2018 - 2pmSEAN SCULLY : NO WORDSSean Scully has taught and lectured at major universities and museums worldwide, including Princeton, Parsons School of Art, Harvard, and Oxford, and from 2002-2007 was Professor of Painting at the Art Academy in Munich, Germany. Now a resident of Rockland County since 2015, with his main studio in Tappan, Scully is providing a glimpse into his work with a jewel of an exhibition at the Edward Hopper House. An inspirational and humorous public speaker whose breadth of knowledge spans art history and philosophy, the opportunity to hear Scully talk about his life and work is one not to be missed.
MEMBERS: $12
NON-MEMBERS $15 |
Sean Scully, Doric Primavera, 2017, oil on linen, 28 x 32 in (71.1 x 81.3 cm)
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Saturday, February 3, 2018 - 2pmInspired by Carrie Mae Weems' photo series and "Record Shop" project from work in Beacon, NY, the "NYACK RECORD SHOP PROJECT" collected oral histories reflecting the African American community in Nyack. Moderated by Jennifer Patton, Executive Director of Edward Hopper House, join local artist Bill Batson, and a panel of participants who will talk about their experience in the Nyack Record Shop Project, and the importance of recording black history. Come hear about these community members share their own discoveries and why the project matters.
Thanks to Rand Realty for their sponsorship of this event. WRITTEN IN BLACK INK |
The Nyack Record Shop Project was held January 2018.
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Sunday, October 22, 2017 - 2pmRICHARD TUSCHMANRichard Tuschman will discuss the inspiration, process, and progression of the "Hopper Meditations" series, and how both the concept and technique evolved out of past work and experiences. Tuschman will also bring one of his diorama sets from the series.
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Richard Tuschman in this studio, and "Hotel By Railroad," 2012, Archival Pigment Print, from the series 'Hopper Meditations', Courtesy of Richard Tuschman/Klompching Gallery, New York
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Saturday, July 15, 2017 - 2pmTHE ARTIST'S STUDY CENTER
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Objects on display in the interpretive installation: "Edward Hopper's Bedroom, Reimagined".
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- Edgar Degas, "The Dance Class" 1874, oil on canvas, 32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in., Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1986, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Edouard Manet, "Boating" 1874, oil on canvas, 38 1/4 x 51 1/4 in., H.O Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Edward Hopper, "New York Interior" c. 1921, oil on canvas, 24 5/16 × 29 3/8 in., Whitney Museum of American Art
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