The Hyde Collection has its summer exhibitions for 2014 in full swing.
In Wood Gallery, “Larry Kagan: Lying Shadows” features 28 wall-mounted steel sculptures, illustrating the development of a conceptual idea by Kagan. An exhibiting artist whose work has been collected and shown by museums and galleries worldwide, Kagan is currently a faculty member of the art department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy.
Museum officials said that for the past 20 years, Kagan has been engaged with the process of creating a hybrid form of sculpture that combines the solid component of a steel wire sculpture and the specific shadow it casts on the wall in a way that challenges expectations.
A version of this exhibition will be at Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, New York, from Sept. 11 through Oct. 11.
The exhibit is organized by The Hyde Collection. It will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog with an essay on the artist’s work by Dr. Roberto Casati, author of “The Shadow Club” published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Support for the publication is sponsored, in part, by Mr. Jerry I. Speyer & Ms. Katherine Farley; Mr. and Mrs. Bernard R. Brown; Ms. Marijo Dougherty and Mr. Norman Bauman; Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Garchik; and Michael J. Gardner, MD.
The exhibition is sponsored, in part, by the state Council on the Arts with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature and Warren County. Hirschl & Adler Modern is a participant in the exhibition and catalog. Media sponsors for this exhibition are The Lake George Mirror and Metroland.
Paired with the Kagan exhibition in the Hoopes Gallery is “Emerging from the Shadows: Edward Hopper and His Contemporaries.”
Museum officials said shadows are a recurrent motif for the artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) and part of its power to enthrall viewers, emphasizing the sense of alienation, anonymity, and isolation of the human condition. While we are only peripherally conscious of shadows in nature, in the work of Hopper and his contemporaries, including Armin Landeck, Martin Lewis, Louis Lozowick, George Bellows, Isabel Bishop, Howard Cook, and Stow Wengenroth, the shadow assumes a narrative and metaphoric dimension.
“Emerging from the Shadows” will feature three watercolors and two etchings by Hopper, and 20 additional works by 10 of his fellow artists, primarily etchings and lithographs on loan from museums, private collections, and selected from.
The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m. Admission for Hyde members is free. General admission is $8; seniors 60-plus $6; students with college ID free; children 12 and under free; active US military and their families are free. Admission on the second Sunday of each month is free.
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