Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Stone Gallery
1998 • Works by Laurie Simmons
September 3 – December 7, 2024 • Stone Gallery
1998 is a selection of photographs by artist Laurie Simmons. The title, playfully inspired by Taylor Swift’s 1989 album, references work produced by Simmons in the year 1998 for an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art called Metro Pictures. These photographs revisit the miniature elements Simmons introduced in her seminal work of the late 1970s. These photographs are of dramatically lighted installation views of architectural models filled with furniture and occasional figures.
Laurie Simmons is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker. Since the mid-1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, objects on legs, and people, to create photographs that reference domestic scenes. She is part of The Pictures Generation, a name given to a group of artists who came to prominence in the 1970s. The Pictures Generation also includes Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, and Louise Lawler.
808 Gallery
Group Crit: MFA Painting and Sculpture 1969 – 2024
September 3 – October 20, 2024 • 808 Gallery
MFA and BFA graduates from Painting and Sculpture represent what they learned at SVA along with new pathways they are establishing as emerging artists.
Visual themes are apparent across the gallery walls but there are other less visible but equally important connections represented in this show.
These works may be reminders of friendships forged in Foundation, close faculty mentorship, or years of conversations in the graduate studios.
Traveling Exhibitions
Cey Adams, Departure: 40 Years of Art and Design
This exhibition is currently traveling. CEY ADAMS, DEPARTURE: 40 Years of Art and Design is a retrospective of Cey Adams’ illustrious forty-year career as a visionary artist, cultural pioneer, and innovative designer. Born in Harlem and raised in Queens, NY, Cey Adams (American, 1962) honed his art skills painting graffiti on the streets and trains of New York City before moving downtown where street art was leaking into the city’s high- end galleries alongside fellow artists Keith Haring, Jean Michel-Basquiat, Futura, Haze, Lee Quinones, and Lady Pink. Like his Pop Art contemporaries of the time, Adams understood the power of images, media, and advertising – a position that left him uniquely suited to give visual life to a new movement called Hip-Hop.
Cey Adams’ roots as a graffiti artist laid the foundation for his creative vision. Over the next four decades, Adams would go on to create visual identities for some of Hip-Hop’s foundational acts as the founding Creative Director of Def Jam Recordings and establish a robust contemporary fine art practice. This exhibition highlights Adams’ extensive practice, including paintings, mixed media collage, graphic design, typography, logo design, and branding for Hip-Hop album covers, fashion apparel, books and magazines, large-scale murals, and global brand collaborations. With a return to his roots more than a decade ago, Adams explores his evolving art by combining his different disciplines through fine art and mixed media collages. In discovering unique solutions with creative problem solving by using colorful curves, shapes, and letterforms, Cey Adams found his life’s passion and evokes nostalgia while looking deeper into an Americana that is effortlessly authentic.
This exhibition is curated by Liza Quiñonez co-founder of Street Theory and Yutong Shi. Street Theory is an award-winning creative agency that activates communities, spaces, and global brands through street-art, experiential marketing, cultural placemaking, branding and design. An artist-owned agency, founded by Quiñonez and renowned graffiti/ street-artist Marka27, their work has yielded 20 years of experience in large scale public art production, arts administration, art and design direction, exhibitions and special events. They support artists through highest levels of creative expression and strategic planning in the areas of lifestyle, hospitality, retail, real estate, urban planning, and community development, and pride themselves in authentic experiences, bringing art and street culture into all aspects of life and work– from curating and producing events to empowering communities and working with some of today’s most talented and influential artists.
www.street-theory.com • @streettheorygallery
Previous exhibitions
- Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, MA:
October 4 – December 11, 2022 - University of North Texas College of Visual Art and Design, Denton, TX:
August 22 – December 5, 2023 - Yes we are MAD, Dania Beach, FL:
April 6 – May 26, 2024
In the Press
Upcoming Exhibitions
Moments in Photography
Works by Janice Checchio, Jackie Ricciardi & Cydney Scott
October 29 – December 3, 2024 • 808 Gallery
This exhibition celebrates storytelling through the lens of a camera.
Artists Janice Checchio, Jacqueline Ricciardi, and Cydney Scott exhibit photographs taken over the course of their careers working as photojournalists.
While capturing highlights and conflicts, each artist showcases her own experience preserving a moment.