Event Title: "The Grand" in the Wallace Gallery
Date: March 19,2009
Time: varied times
Description: The Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at SUNY College at Old Westbury is pleased to announce the opening of The Grand, an exhibition organized around the idea of beauty and the sublime in a contemporary context. People often associate beauty and the sublime with eighteenth-century concepts despite their prior histories. However, depiction of grand cathedrals, sublime landscapes, mythical legends, monumental events in history, and heroic portraits are very common themes explored throughout history. Such grand subject matter aim to evoke feelings of pleasant adoration or quiet wonder. According to Kant the sublime can be divided into three kinds: noble, splendid, and terrifying. The artists in The Grand; Ben Grasso, Daina Higgins, Miyeon Lee, Rita MacDonald, Andrea Loefke, Larry Lee, Alejandro Almanza Pereda and SunTek Chung explore ideas of the monumental that evoke joy and splendor while toying dangerously close to the idea of sublime terror. The exhibition will run until March 19, 2009. Admission for the gallery is free and the exhibit will be open from Monday-Thursday from 1-5 p.m. and by appointment.
Location: Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Campus Center
Contact Name: Visual Arts Department, 516-876-3056
Contact Email: yih@oldwestbury.edu
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