Crit Ecologies: Artists, Community, Criticality
Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art exterior view
Curated by Dr. Livia Strauss, executive Director, HV MOCA and Patricia Miranda, founder, The Crit lab
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, AGE.
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.
EVENTS:
Panel Discussion Saturday, September 21, 1:30-3pm
Reception Saturday, September 21, 3-5pm
Panel: Jeanne Silverthorne, Artist+ Guggenheim Fellow; Carla Rae Johnson, artist+ NYFA Fellow; + Patricia Miranda, artist+founder, The Crit Lab. Moderator, Livia Straus
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, 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, Linda Smith, John Sproul, Priscilla Stadler, Rebecca Steiner, Kim Svoboda, Dayna Talbot, Sylvia Vander Sluis, Mitchell Visoky, Julie Weiman, Elizabeth Rose Wilson, Susan Wolf, Rita Klachkin