Crit Ecologies: Artists, Community, Criticality
September 21 - December 7, 2024
Opening Reception: September 21, 3pm - 5pm
Curated by Patricia Miranda, Founder of MAPSpace and The Crit Lab, Artist, Educator, Curator
&
Livia Straus, President/Co-Founder Hudson Valley MOCA, Board Member ISC, Curator, Collector, Philanthropist
Artists for the exhibition Crit Ecologies have been participants in The Crit Lab, a graduate-level critique seminar program for working artists after and outside academia. The Lab is an alternate critical community for artists to come together in ongoing, sustained, contact, with empathetic listening, radical optimism and rigorous dialogue, in an act of hope over destruction. The structured pedagogy was developed by Miranda to focus and deepen discussion beyond common subjective reactions, and to support ethical structures in which artists’ practices can thrive. The Crit Lab structure was designed in response to the opinionated and personal nature of much critique, often clouded by the unremarked power dynamics of gender, class, race, etc.
Curated in a competitive juried process from Crit Lab participants from Fall 2023-Spring 2024, selected artists have the benefit of exposure through an exhibition at Hudson Valley MOCA, an institution whose reputation is partially based on a successful record in identifying extraordinary talent early in an artist’s career.
Artists:
Christine Aaron, Idil Barkan, Carrie Belk, Allison Belolan, Carol Bouyoucos, Serena Buschi, Jennifer Cadoff, Leah Caroline, Tracy Casagrande Clancy, Martha Chason-Sokol, Jodi Colella, Merill Comeau, Davida Cook, Elizabeth de Bethune, Laura Dolp, Deborah Freedman, Lisa Lee Freeman, Kathryn Geismar, Rima Grad, Sutton Hays, Aileen Hengeveld, Carol Herd-Rodriguez, Anne Johnstone, Fredricka Joyner, Karen Kalkstein, Shelley Kaplan, Natalya Khorover, Rita Klachkin, Wendy Kohli, Bonny Leibowitz, Michelle Lougee, Rita Maas, Cynthia MacCollum, Caroline MacMoran, Claudine Metrick, Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy, Catherine Moylan, T-Bone Muniz, Lisie Orjuela, Deborah Peeples, Deborah Pressman, Laura Reeder, Michelle Robinson, Jonathan Rowe, Roohi Saleem, Sharon Schmiedel, John Sproul, Priscilla Stadler, Rebecca Steiner, Kim Svoboda, Dayna Talbot, Sylvia Vander Sluis, Mitchell Visoky, Julie Weiman, Elizabeth Rose Wilson, Susan Wolf
Accompanying talks
September 21, 1pm-3pm
Art Educator Panel
Before the opening reception for Crit Ecologies: Artists, Community, Criticality, art educators Jeanne Silverthorne (Artist + Guggenheim Fellow), Patricia Miranda (Artist + Founder, The Crit Lab), and Carla Rae Johnson (Artist + NYFA Fellow) will be addressing the benefits and the need for artists to create communities for ongoing critique and growth. Join the Art Educator Panel from 1pm-3pm!
Moderator: Livia Straus: Co-Founder, President HVMOCA.
November 21, 11am-8pm
Marks on Paper: A Drawing Marathon
Join us for an interactive day at HVMOCA, with drawing in the exhibition space and black box theater: live model, munchies and wine, and great comradery.
Special For The Day:
Word Art Workshops with champion Slam Poet Nick Powers 3pm-5pm
Bring your own food, we supply the drinks and the teacher crits - Stay the day!
Non-members: $45.00
HVMOCA Artist Members and Crit Lab Participants: $40.00
December 7
Artists’ Panel: ‘Before and After’
A slide presentation and discussion of how artists measure the benefits of participation in post grad critiques and artist residencies, presented by participants of the Artist Crit exhibition and moderated by Patricia Miranda, artist, curator, educator, and founder of the Crit Lab, offering a series of graduate level seminars for working artists.