HVCCA: Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art

Upcoming Special Events

Performance and Gallery Talk with artist JONATHAN MEESE

Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Performance @ 12:00 pm with gallery talk & reception to follow
Meese is a world renowned German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. His 20 foot mixed media exploration entitled “Fort Knox” is featured in HVCCA’s current exhibition Size Matters: XXL – recent large scale paintings.

Upcoming Exhibitions

CHRIS JONES - Spring Artist in Residence

Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Exhibition Opening
Artist talk @ 4:00pm with reception to follow
Jones is a London based artist who creates sculptures that hover between the fantastical and the mundane, composed of images from magazines, calendars, encyclopedias and posters. During his residency at the HVCCA, Jones has lived in Peekskill creating a new group of works, piecing together local stories, history and terrain. Through August 17th, 2008.

Ongoing Exhibitions

Size Matters: XXL - Recent Large-Scale Paintings

September 16, 2007 - July 27, 2008
Featuring monumental paintings by a diverse group of international artists.

Ongoing Long-Term Installations

Folkert de Jong - Mount Maslow, 2007

Dutch artist Folkert de Jong is one of the most innovative young sculptors today. Inspired by Abraham Maslow’s “Theory of Human Motivation,” De Jong stages an 18-foot styrofoam snow mountain being scaled by two bearded figures. Hamburger Hill references an American assault on a Vietnam position in which most of the troops died and the hill had no strategic value.

Thomas Hirschhorn - Laundrette, 2001

Using commonplace materials such as cardboard, linoleum, postage tape and aluminum foil, Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn has recreated a full-scale replica of a laundrette, in which cardboard models of washing-machines are inset with television sets showing global atrocities downloaded from the internet juxtaposed to videos of the artist performing everyday, commonplace tasks. Hirschhorn, who has become the most celebrated international installation artist, challenges us to consider how poverty and neglect has led to human incivility.