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    • A Walking Tour of Edward Hopper's Nyack
    • Things to do in the Rockland / Nyack area
    • Metro-North Getaways Program
  • Support & Membership
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    • Membership
    • Sponsorship
    • Our Supporters
  • Learn
    • Sanborn-Hopper Family Archive
    • About Edward Hopper >
      • Myths & Legends
      • Hopper-related Links
      • 2011: A Year of Edward Hopper
      • Edward Hopper House and the making of an artist (video)
      • Hopper Happens (2011 & 2012)
      • Hopper's NYC Studio
    • Writing With Hopper
    • Teen Leadership - Nighthawks >
      • Nighthawks ARTifacts Project
    • Arts Education Program
    • Internship Programs
    • Docent Program
    • Artistic Curiosity Scholarships
    • Teacher/Student Resources
  • Exhibitions
    • Currently on View >
      • Edward Hopper's Bedroom: Reimagined
    • Upcoming Exhibitions >
      • Terry Rosenberg
      • Adrien Broom: Holding Space
    • Past exhibitions >
      • 2020 >
        • Object Lessons
        • Thirty Seven
      • 2019 >
        • Rodney Smith
        • Hopper Through Photography
        • John Morton: Place of Origin
        • Michael Banning: Hopper / Hammershøi
        • Alastair Noble: Message In A Bo(a)ttle
        • Holly Zausner and Mott Hupfel: Unsettled Matter
        • Angela Fraleigh: Shadows Searching For Light
      • 2018 >
        • Milton Glaser: Landscape Prints
        • Claudia Alvarez: Boy in a Room
        • Sean Scully: No Words
        • Carrie Mae Weems Beacon
      • 2017 >
        • Richard Tuschman Hopper Meditations
        • Mercedes Helnwein CHAOS THEORY:
        • Rock, Paper, Scissors
      • 2016 >
        • David LaChapelle: Gas Stations
        • Side by Side: Robert Natkin and Judith Dolnick
        • Where We Are Standing: Contemporary Women Artists from Iran
      • 2015
      • 2014 >
        • Jo Hopper - Grace De Coeur 2014
      • 2013
      • 2012 >
        • Kari Lindstrom dance performance
      • 2011
      • 2010
      • 2009
      • 2008
    • Sculpture in the Garden
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      • Sail Through Art History
      • Nighthawks Magic
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      • Hopper Scenes
      • Bridgman/Packer "Voyeur"
      • Special Programs - PAST
    • Free First Fridays
    • For Seniors
    • For Families
    • Art Talks
    • Films in the Garden
    • Jazz in the Garden 2020
  • Artist Members
    • Artist Membership Sign-Up and Payment
  • Special Events
    • Spring Benefit 2021
    • Arts Education - Ellis Sotheby's 2020
    • Spring Benefit 2020
    • Arts Education - Ellis Sotheby's 2019
    • Spring Benefit 2019
    • Arts Education - Ellis Sotheby's 2018
    • Spring Benefit 2018
    • Arts Education - Ellis Sotheby's 2017
    • Spring Benefit 2017 - Art, Architecture, And A Study Center Rises
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EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTER

Holly Zausner: Unsettled Matter
 
Mott Hupfel: Dreams to Reality

Curated by Kristina Burns
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March 1 - June 2, 2019
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Members Opening & Reception: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 6:30 - 8:30 PM 
Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center is pleased to announce a multimedia installation featuring Holly Zausner’s 2015 film, Unsettled Matter, and a series of photographs by Mott Hupfel. By radically re-configuring the exhibition space at the museum, we invite viewers to immerse themselves in Zausner’s portrait of a place with, “no people, no cars, just me walking, sometimes running through an empty city” where, she says, “something has gone wrong in the world—but what, exactly?” 
 
Zausner’s solitary figure passes furtively through the environment in much the same way Hopper’s secretive city dwellers lurk in the shadows of bridges, windows and doorways. As we follow Zausner's figure, it becomes increasingly clear that in the cryptic terrains of these artists, Zausner’s observation that the “locations are the meaning, not the backdrop.” 
 
Zausner explores the “dialogue between art and cinema” in her films. For the creation of this film, Zausner returned frequently to New York from Berlin to collaborate with feature film cinematographer, Mott Hupfel, known for his work on The Savages, The American Astronaut, and The Cobbler. 
 
Hupfel states that he returns again and again to Hopper’s work for inspiration and often for explication when trying to elucidate an idea or a mood. Noting that Hopper was a consummate student of light, having said, “I was more interested in the sunlight on the buildings and on the figures than any symbolism,” Hupfel's study of light is the nexus of his growing series of images. Like many of Hopper’s works, Hupfel’s photographs are infused with a sense of isolation and melancholy. Hupfel uses light, or the lack thereof, to transform the familiar into something mysterious and strange.  Just as Hopper’s characters seem caught in a moment that serve as a provocation for the viewer to complete the narrative, Hupfel has said he likes to think of the images in this series "as the nuclei for, or maybe the aftermath of a scene I might create for a film” with “some element of human existence, if not a human itself, that I hope will trigger questions in the viewer’s mind about what might happen – or what has happened – there.” 
Holly Zausner 
Zausner has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the United States including solo exhibitions at the 
Neue Nationalgalerie; Bode Museum, Berlin; SculptureCenter, New York among others. She was the recipient of 2007 DAAD Film Grant in Berlin and in 1993, she received the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. 
Mott Hupfel 
A New York University Graduate, Hupfel lives and works in New York City.  Among his films are The American Astronaut (2001), The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), The Savages (2007), and Jack Goes Boating (2010). He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography for The American Astronaut and The Savages. 
"Zausner passes through New York as a ghost - purposefully marching through empty streets, lobbies and stations, sometimes no more than a flicker, but just as often stopping to contemplate: a book in the basement of the Strand, the mangled visage of Queen Hatshepsut at the Metropolitan Museum, or us, the viewer, at the center of the swirling maelstrom of Times Square (the only time in which we see other human beings). Though she interacts with no one, she is performing for us, right up until the possible endpoint of the film, when she comes physically crashing down onto her workbench strewn with stills from her last work - death by art... 

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​      - Gregory Volk

SPECIAL Thanks to Sponsor: 

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April 27, 2019, 2-6pm - FREE!
Garner Arts Center
55 W Railroad Ave, Garnerville, NY 10923
 
Edward Hopper Museum & Study Center partners with GARNER Arts Center and Rivertown Film for a site-specific video installation designed by Kristina Burns. By simultaneously projecting four iconic films by directors Chris Marker, Jean Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Walter Ruttmann which have influenced the work of Holly Zausner onto the walls of a cavernous industrial warehouse, Burns will create an immersive experience exploring the mysterious process of distilling inspiration. Edward Hopper House Nighthawks teen program will help participants consider the work of these filmmakers in an expanded space.
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Holly Zausner: film stills from "Unsettled Matter"

Mott Hupfel: images from "Garzon" and "Marfa" photography series.

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