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THE ROTUNDA GALLERY
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE 2001-2002

To Market To Market
September 13, 2001 - October 27, 2001
Guest Curator: Robin Kahn

To Market To Market plays with the concept of marketing as it relates to the production and display of artwork, using the traditional art fair as a model. Through site-specific installations and live performance pieces, all the artists in this exhibition will display work that in some way adopts a promotional strategy designed to attract the public. The "exhibits" in To Market To Market will include film installations, live music, a real estate office offering haunted houses and tours of Brooklyn's small but fascinating community of outsider artists. Throughout the exhibition artists will be on hand marketing their wares - whether artistic products, promotional items, or simply their personas. Artists include Katrin Asbury, Michael Ballou, Julia Chiang, Ian Cooper/Rachel Foullon, Brian Dewan, The E Team and Michael Smith, Shawn Greene, Jeffry Hill, A. Clayton Lazar, Christina Mazzalupo, Larry Racioppo, Alexander Fraser Robbins and Sophie Spar.

Robin Kahn is an artist and has organized exhibitions and art events at Paula Cooper Gallery, The Kitchen, the Guggenheim Museum in SoHo, DIA Center for the Arts and most recently, Bound & Unbound and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks+Project, NY.

Animas!
November 15 - December 29, 2001
Benefit Preview: November 8, 2001
Curators: Janet Riker, and Meridith McNeal

The tradition of performing objects has a long history stretching back to ancient performance practices, folk and popular theater, as well as religious ceremony. Taking the tradition of object theater as its starting point, Animas! encompasses drawing, sculpture, masks and puppetry. Animas! will explore the spirit that animates objects and brings them to life, whether in the visual or performing arts. In addition to contemporary artists who use masks and puppet sculpture, the exhibition will include artists whose work concerns the narrative force of anonymous objects. Artists under consideration include Matt Freedman, Marina Gutierrrez, Jenna Spevack, Hanne Tierney, Mary Ziegler and others. In conjunction with the exhibition two evenings of short performances are planned.

Janet Riker is the Director of the Rotunda Gallery and Meridith McNeal is the Associate Director.

What Happened in Lime Mills?
January 17 - March 9, 2002
Nelly Reifler, guest curator

Organized by writer and guest curator Nelly Reifler, What Happened in Lime Mills? will recontextualize our notions of illness and deepen our understanding of the historic and contemporary plagues which afflict human beings. This exhibition will investigate ways to think about and represent sickness without recourse to the culturally specific and politically charged rhetoric that often surrounds disease. Built around a loose narrative of fictional plagues and places, the exhibition will present metaphorical landscapes that contain a vague sense of unease in contrast to works that zero in on smaller, individual perspectives; the human and biological aspects of contagion will spiral into broader images of disappearance and loss. Artists under consideration include Elizabeth Albert, Joshua Dorman, Edward Coppola, Carola Dreidemie, Madelon Galland, Katurah Hutcheson, Robert Jack, David Landow, Barbara Reiser, and Joan Snyder. A literary event featuring Brooklyn writers reading old and new work about real and imagined plagues will be held in conjunction with this exhibition.

What Happened in Lime Mills? was selected by the gallery's Artists' Advisory Committee as part of our curatorial initiative program which supports new and emerging curators and provide opportunities for them to realize their vision in a professional arena. Previous exhibitions selected through the curatorial initiative program have included Flurry (2000), David Burke, guest curator, and Lost and Found: Reclaimed Moments (2001) with Mihee Ahn, guest curator.

Nelly Reifler is co-editor with Paul Auster of the forthcoming anthology I thought My Father Was God. Her plays have been produced in New York, San Francisco and Sydney Australia. She has curated several reading series in New York City, as well as San Francisco's 1992 Pixelvision video festival. Her stories have appeared numerous literary journals including Mississippi Mud, Bomb, The Florida Review, and Exquisite Corpse.

Untitled. Interactive Exhibition
March 28 - May 18, 2002
Curators: Janet Riker and Meridith McNeal

This exhibition will feature artwork that requires the participation and active interaction of the viewer in order to be fully realized. The work "on view" will engage more than the audience's gaze. The exhibition will address the question of what art demands of the viewer by inviting them into the experience of the work. Included will be interactive work in a wide range media and aesthetic approaches including participatory events, simple mechanics and computer processes. In an effort to provide broad access to the exhibition programs, an open call for work and/or proposals was sent out in March. The exhibition will include between 4-10 artists.

KIDSART
June 6- June 22, 2002
Opening: KIDSDAY, June 6, 2002
Meridith McNeal, curator

Throughout the season exhibitions at the Rotunda Gallery serve as an inspiration for the discussion and hands-on art projects of children from kindergarten through high school, who attend the Gallery's Education Program. KIDSART is a survey of the exhibition season as seen through the eyes of New York City's children and includes examples of artwork from all of the Rotunda's Education programs: class visits, museum outreach programs, after school programs and professional development workshops for teachers and administrators. The exhibition opens with KIDSDAY, June 6, a full day of free workshops, tours and performances held in conjunction with the Brooklyn Public Library, New York Transit Museum and the Brooklyn Historical Society.

The Rotunda Gallery is located at 33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights. Hours are Tuesday-Friday, Noon - 5 PM and Saturday, 11 AM - 4 PM. Admission is free. Information: 718-875-4047 x11; or www.brooklynX.org/rotunda.