Please join us for the

Roy R. Neuberger Prize Reception

an in-person event celebrating

2022 award recipient Tomashi Jackson

and the opening of her prize exhibition

Tomashi Jackson: SLOW JAMZ

Thursday, April 21, 2022

5:00pm - 7:30pm

Neuberger Museum of Art

Purchase College, SUNY

Meet the Artist.

Remarks and Award Presentation.

Food + Light Beverages.

DJ. Student Musical Performances.

RSVP for the Reception

Replies requested by April 14, 2022.

Free and open to the public.

2019 Roy R. Neuberger Prize
Award Presentation & Reception
WHEN: Saturday, September 21, 6:30–8:00pm
COST: Free and open to the public.

Members of the public are invited to join in celebrating the work of 2019 Roy R. Neuberger Prize recipient Yto Barrada.
Meet the artist and celebrate her work as she is presented with this year’s $25,000 honorarium during a brief award ceremony followed by a reception.

Attendees will enjoy the opportunity to preview her exhibition, Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden, before it officially opens to the public on September 25th.

Opening in the Winter of 2018, the Neuberger Museum of Art will feature two exhibitions about neon that explore several artists’ use of this exciting medium as well as the close collaboration between the skilled glass-benders and the artists. Stephen Antonakos: Proscenium features a large-scale, site-specific work originally created in 2000 for the Neuberger’s vast Theater Gallery. A pioneer in the use of neon as a fine art material, Antonakos’ (1926-2013) career spanned over five decades, during which time he created numerous illuminated works for indoor and outdoor spaces across the globe. Named for a type of Greek stage, Proscenium will animate the darkened space of Theater Gallery with saturated color, glowing light, and calligraphic line. Bending Light: Neon Art 1965 to Now will provide a selective survey of neon art from 1965 to the present and will feature iconic works from the Neuberger Museum’s permanent collection including Chryssa’s Ampersand V (1965), Otto Piene’s Neon Medusa (1969), and Cerith Wyn Evans’ TIX3(1994) as well as loaned work from public and private collections. It will focus on the often-blurred lines between commercial and fine art, and consider the complicated interplays among light, chemistry, and artistic vision.

NEON

Stephen Antonakos: Proscenium

A monumental site-specific neon installation commissioned for the Neuberger Museum of Art in 2000 and exhibited for the first time since that date.

NEON

Bending Light: Neon Art 1965 to Now

An exhibition of neon works exploring several artists' use of this exciting medium and their close collaboration with skilled glass-benders.

FROM MOTHERWELL TO HOFMANN:

The Samuel Kootz Gallery, 1945–1966

The first exhibition to examine the critical role Samuel Kootz (1898–1982) and his gallery played in establishing modern American art as an international force.

From Motherwell to Hofmann: The Samuel Kootz Gallery, 1945–1966 is the first exhibition to examine the critical role Kootz (1898–1982) played in establishing modern American art as an international force. It will focus on the ways in which Kootz’s New York gallery (operational 1945–1966) was instrumental in promoting the careers of several major Abstract Expressionist artists, including William Baziotes, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, and Robert Motherwell. It will feature works by these artists as well as focus on a selection of important exhibitions that were held at the Kootz Gallery, including a 1946 show of the collection of Roy R. Neuberger, Kootz’s first customer at the gallery. Until now, Samuel Kootz has been underrepresented in the scholarship of the postwar period, despite representing much of the major talent in twentieth-century art. The exhibition and associated publication, with essays by noted experts, recasts Kootz, focusing on his writings, relationships with individual artists, collectors, and dealers, and the trajectories of the artists who showed at his gallery, in order to provide a new perspective on this moment in American art.

Argentine artist Leandro Erlich blends reality and fantasy, the playful and the profound to build architecturally-scaled installations that exceed the bounds of logic, creating uncanny spaces in which multiple realities may coexist. In his dreamlike installation, Port of Reflections, Erlich depicts a serene nighttime harbor in which five colorfully painted rowboats appear to float, gently rocking, as their reflections seemingly shimmer in the dark waters below. His work sparks a sense of wonder as he transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. Erlich is the recipient of the 2017 Roy R. Neuberger Exhibition Prize given to an exceptional artist for an early-career survey and monographic catalogue. A selection of models and photographs tracing the artist’s trajectory is also on view.

Leandro Erlich: Port of Reflections is organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, and curated by Patrice Giasson, Alex Gordon Associate Curator of Art of the Americas, and Helaine Posner, Chief Curator. Generous support for this exhibition has been provided by the Jim Neuberger and Helen Stambler Neuberger Foundation. Additional funding has been provided by the Consulate General and Promotion Center of the Argentine Republic, New York.

  (Snow date, February 11) http://www.leandroerlich.com.ar/works.php?id=34

RSVP: nma.rsvp@purchase.edu or 914-251-6125 Reservations are required.