HVCCA: Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art

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Open on Saturdays & Sundays
12 - 6PM and by appointment

Tours available upon request

1701 Main Street
PO Box 209
Peekskill, NY 10566

tel: 914.788.0100
fax: 914.788.4531

email: info@hvcca.org

HVCCA exhibitions and programs are generously supported by:

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Upcoming Events

Public Tile Project Benefit

Friday, May 30th, 2008
6:00 - 9:00pm
Join the Peeksill Education Foundation (PEF) and HVCCA as we raise funds and celebrate the coming together of Art and Education in Peekskill. The Public Tile Project in Peekskill will create a walkway from the Peekskill Train Station to the HVCCA — made from 500 Dutch style tiles designed by the children in our local and area schools.

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.