Interpreting
Guest Curator: Dena Shottenkirk
September 10 - October 17, 1998
Benefit Exhibition: Brooklyn Salon
November 4 - November 25, 1998
Benefit Cocktail Party: Wednesday, November 4, 1998
Organized by the Friends Committee, this annual event will feature a salon-style exhibition and art sale including the work of over 50 Brooklyn-affiliated artists in a wide range of styles and media. The exhibition will open with a preview cocktail party and the sale will continue through the exhibition period. All work will sold to benefit the Gallery. The small project room will feature artwork created in the Gallery's education program and text panels describing the Gallery's school visit, museum/school collaborations, and after school programs.
Seeing Money
Group exhibition selected from the Rotunda Slide Registry
Curators: Janet Riker and Meridith McNeal
December 10, 1998 - January 23, 1999
Selected by Gallery Director Janet Riker and Assistant Director Meridith McNeal from over 850 artists included in the Gallery's slide registry, this exhibition will treat the subject of money, exploring its physical presence, social connotations and symbolic implications. The exhibition will include a "Five and Ten" in which the Rotunda will invite artists in the registry to create a work of art on the theme; one work will be purchased by the gallery from each artist for the sum of $5 and offered for sale at the price of $10.
Zone of Risibility
Guest Curator: Carrie Cooperider
February 4 - March 27, 1999
Wit and humor are common, if largely unacknowledged, strategies employed by many visual artists. If they remain outside the realm of serious critical inquiry, they do so because of their uncomfortable proximity to seemingly lowbrow forms of popular entertainment. Yet wit and humor remain among the most profoundly subversive critical tools artists employ. Zone of Risibility will feature the work of approximately 15 Brooklyn-affiliated artists working in a variety of media. Artists currently included are: Nicole Awai, Michael Ballou, Ken Butler, Brian Dewan, Cathy Cook, Amelia Costigan, Maria Demarse, Linda Ganjian, Wendy Hirschberg, Byron Kim, Daniel Mirer, Carrie Moyer, Brian Mukergee, David Scher, Guy Richard Smit, Su-Chen Wang, and Andy Yoder, with work ranging from parodies of instructional film strips and wedding videos to outlandish assemblages of found material in the form of vehicles and musical instruments.
Carrie Cooperider is an artist and educator, who has taught at Pratt Institute, the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University (Boston, MA) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's Summer Program in LaNapoule, France. This exhibition was selected by the Gallery's Artists' Advisory Committee in response to an open call for exhibition proposals.
Formulas for Revelation
Curators: Michele Maccarone and Leslie Alexander
April 8 - May 22, 1999
Whether attributable to approaching millennium or the concerns of aging baby boomers, spiritual issues figure prominently in the work of many contemporary artists, taking forms including historical considerations of the occult and spirit worlds, visual representations of traditional religious thought, contemplative practice, or the incorporation of devotional objects. This group exhibition will explore the intersection of art and the spiritual in several different manifestations.
KIDSART
June 3 - June 26, 1999
Curator: Meridith McNeal
KIDSDAY: Tuesday, June 3, 1999
Throughout the season, exhibitions at the Rotunda Gallery serve as an inspiration for the discussion and hands-on art projects of children from pre-kindergarten through high school. Classes attend the Gallery's School Visit program each day an exhibition is on view. The Rotunda's Mini-Museum outreach program integrates art instruction with school curricula through a series of gallery visits and classroom lessons, and culminates in the creation of a mini-museum or installation project in the participating school. The exhibition KIDSART presents children's art work from all the Gallery's education programs selected by Meridith McNeal, the Gallery's Director of Education.
Janet Riker is the Gallery Director; Meridith McNeal is Assistant Director. The ROTUNDA GALLERY is a project of the not-for-profit BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc. (Nanette Rainone, President).
The ROTUNDA GALLERY is located at 33 Clinton Street (Pierrepont Street and Cadman Plaza West) in Brooklyn Heights, its hours are Tuesday - Friday, Noon - 5 PM and Saturday, 11 AM- 4 PM. Information: 718-875-4047; or www.brooklynX.org/rotunda.
Located in Brooklyn Heights, just over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, the Gallery is also easily accessible by public transportation. It is a short walk from the 2, 3; 4, 5; M; N or R trains at the Court Street/Borough Hall station; or the A, C trains at High Street.
