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The Beauty of Classical Guitar

Thursday, 1 pm
September 26, 2024

Our season opener features renowned guitarist Oren Fader in works by Bach, Schubert and more with our artistic director Monica Bauchwitz, violin, and Karl Kramer, horn.

Art Songs

Thursday, 1 pm
October 10, 2024

A vocal recital with Soprano Kendra Berentsen. Works by Wolff, Strauss, Britten, Kramer, and the Great American Songbook.

3 of the Great B’s

Thursday, 1 pm
November 21, 2024

Monica is joined by cellist Mihai Marica and pianist Carlos Avila for a program featuring the great Trio in C minor by Brahms, flanked by works by Bach and Bloch.

The French Connection

Thursday, 1 pm
February 27, 2024

Pianist Reiko Uchida joins us in a program of music by Copland, Francaix, Lennox Berkeley, and Lili Boulanger –all disciples of the towering French composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.

Margaret Bonds’ World

Thursday, 1 pm
March 20, 2025

Soprano Cristina Maria Castro joins us for Women’s History Month in a program that focuses on the great Harlem Renaissance composer and arranger.

String Sextets

Thursday, 1 pm
April 24, 2025

String players from the String Orchestra of New York City will delight us in sextets by Frank Bridge and Bohuslav Martinu.

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Join us for a Curator's Tour of our current exhibi

Join us for a Curator's Tour of our current exhibition, Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art with Bartholomew Bland.
November 19, 2024, 11:00 am
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Join us! Lehman Stages & The Lehman College Art G

Join us!

Lehman Stages & The Lehman College Art Gallery with The Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre and Dance present, INCANDESCENSE, The New Voices Student Playwriting Festival 2024. Curated by Stephanie Stowe

November 6th at 4pm
November 7, 8, 9 at 7pm

at Lehman College Art Gallery
Free tickets - Click link above.

Featuring New Work By

Axel Fink
Simi Raji
Moserrate Godinez
Aminata Gueye
Terra Robinson
Kendal Simmons

Image:
Marc Dennis, Las Rockstars, 2023-2024, Oil on linen, 70 x 60 inches, Courtesy of Harper's, East Hampton.

Support for Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art at Lehman College Art Gallery has been made possible in part by our generous supporters including the Charina Foundation, Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation, Keith Haring Foundation, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Art as a Third Dimension, New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and New York City Council Members Eric Dinowitz, Oswald Feliz, Kristy Marmorato, and Kevin C. Riley.

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Lesley Dill Wisp of Iridescence Chandelier, 2023

Lesley Dill
Wisp of Iridescence Chandelier, 2023
Copper sculpture backed with organza,
copper wire and hooping
48 x 20 x 15 inches
Courtesy of Lesley Dill Studio and
Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“What reading does to us, how it changes us, how it acts on us," motivates Lesley Dill, who “hunts for the right words like a fox after a rabbit.” The words Dill finds she puts into her artwork. She may discover the words in readings from ranks of authors like Dickinson, Rilke, and Kafka or she may feel them. For Dill, “The convergence of language with art is what made me make art.” The artist’s ultimate goal is to discover those words that either cloak or reveal the human psyche. From Cate McQuade (Boston Globe): “This is the stuff of Dill's art: the ability of language and image to take us - and sometimes force us inward toward enlightenment.” The strands of words that entwine in her Wisp of Iridescence Chandelier Dill constructs from shining and textured metal sheets and wire that suspended summon the eye to wander amongst discrete letters. Dill’s words seem to hang in the moment between rising and falling and in brief arrest enable us to read them. Wisp of Iridescence Chandelier reminds her of travels she made in the mountains of India and Nepal, where word-covered banners released into the air brought Buddhist blessings by the winds. Dill weaves her own blessings with warm tons of copper and describes the amount of handwork she puts into her sculptures as almost obsessive. “…hours and hours of weaving, stenciling, painting, and cutting flat copper metal shapes.” In the act of creating art with words, Dill is driven by an inner music that guides her in the way words flow with the object and shape the work itself. The words may tangle as in Wisp of Iridescence Chandelier or appear as murmurings in a half-remembered dream.

Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art. Link above for free tickets.
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10-4

@nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture @lehmancuny @cunyedu
#bronxgallery #artgallery

Free Inclusive Family Program - Children of all ag

Free Inclusive Family Program - Children of all ages and abilities welcome!

Experience an inquiry-based inclusive family tour of our exhibition, Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art. Create a multi-media artwork based on the work of Ran Hwang.

Sunday, November 10, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Link above for Free Tickets!

@nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture

A look back at our exhibition, Dark and Stormy Nig

A look back at our exhibition, Dark and Stormy Night that featured a work by Adrien Broom.

The Forest of Columns, 2016
Sublimated metal art print
30 x 45 inches

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#gothicart

Marc Dennis Las Rockstars, 2023-24 Oil on linen 7

Marc Dennis
Las Rockstars, 2023-24
Oil on linen
70 x 60 inches
Courtesy of Harper’s, East Hampton

Is a “glitterball” a chandelier? The debate rages. Strictly speaking a glitter or disco ball is a ball mirrored, and reflects light, rather than produces it, In Las Rockstars Marc Dennis brilliantly interprets Diego Velázquez’s famous Las Meninas (The Ladies-in-waiting, 1656), a masterpiece of Western art. Velázquez. on traditional canvas and in oil, depicted a complex scene in which he foregrounded the child infanta, Margarita Teresa, surrounded by her maids of honor (meninas), courtiers, and a dog. This composition from 300 years ago is renowned for its playful manipulation of perspective and its study of the relationship between reality and illusion by its dramatic contrast of light and darkness. Dennis injects modern, celebratory energy in his recreation of Velasquez’s iconic work, He hangs a chandelier of this day and age from a ceiling dappled in the distinctive light of the discotheque, where it exposes dynamic tension between the historical and the contemporary ─ a signature of this artist’s work. By recreating famous paintings throughout the western art canon but with notable differences, Dennis’s art find new meaning in the hallowed lineage of Old Master painting.

Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art. Link above for free tickets.

Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10-4
Works by four dozen artists explore the motif and meaning of the chandelier through sculptural forms, photography, painting, drawing, and installation. This stunning collaborative exhibition is spread across three CUNY venues.

@nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture @lehmancuny @cunyedu
@darcmennis @harpersgallery
#bronxgallery #artgallery

Deborah Czeresko Fowl, 2024 Glass and metal armat

Deborah Czeresko
Fowl, 2024
Glass and metal armature, light bulbs
Approximately 48 x 36 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Fare is fowl and fowl is fare in Deborah Czeresko’s showstopping sculptural chandelier, shocking and witty in its unexpected form. The artist has translated glass into seemingly raw turkey and chicken: whole birds as the body, a single leg which dangles as a pendant, and beautifully rendered necks that form the unnerving “branches” of the chandelier. She brilliantly captures the opalescent quality of uncooked poultry flesh, which, under the flame lights, seems to glow with a malignant possibility. In Fowl Czeresko creates a pointed reminder of the short distance between the abattoir and the dining room. The artist is best known for her work with glass, and frequently references food, art history, gender, and her experiences as a queer artist. With Fowl, the artist pays homage to the historical form of Venetian glass chandeliers, subverting the typical visual of elaborate floral arrangements, and reinterpreting them as flesh. The artist says, “by using traditional material and techniques, Fowl is a reflection on the history of chandelier and glass manufacture. It takes a critical view of the predominantly male dominated glass studio community, and humorously addresses the parallels between masculinity, misogyny, and meat.”

Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art. Link above for free tickets.

Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10-4
Works by four dozen artists explore the motif and meaning of the chandelier through sculptural forms, photography, painting, drawing, and installation. This stunning collaborative exhibition is spread across three CUNY venues.

@nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture @lehmancuny @cunyedu
@dczeey
#bronxgallery #artgallery

Lehman Stages & The Lehman College Art Gallery wit

Lehman Stages & The Lehman
College Art Gallery with The Department of Music,
Multimedia, Theatre and Dance present
INCANDESCENSE
The New Voices Student Play Festival 2024
Curated by Stephanie Stowe
November 6th at 4pm
November 7, 8, 9 at 7pm In the Lehman Gallery
Featuring
New Work By
Axel Fink
Simi Raji
Monserrate Godinez
Aminata Gueye
Terra Robinson &
Kendal Simmons

Click above to register or with QR Code

Marc Dennis, Las Rockstars, 2023-24, Oil on linen, 70
x 60 inches, Courtesy of Harper's, East Hampton
@darcmennis
Support for Incandescence: The Chandelier in
Contemporary Art at Lehman College Art Gallery has
been made possible in part by our generous
supporters including the Charina Foundation, Jarvis
and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, Edith and
Herbert Lehman Foundation, Keith Haring Foundation,
The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Milton and
Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Art as a Third Dimension,
New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs, and New York City
Council Members Eric Dinowitz, Oswald Feliz, Kristy
Marmorato, and Kevin C. Riley.

@nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture @lehmancuny
@cunyedu
@lehmanstages
#bronxgallery #artgallery

Petah Coyne Untitled #1533 (Sylvia Plath); Untitle

Petah Coyne
Untitled #1533 (Sylvia Plath); Untitled #1537 (Hannah Wilke); Untitled #1530 (Ruth Asawa); Untitled #1542 (Marilynne Robinson); Untitled #1532 (Zora Neale Hurston), from the series ‘Color of Heaven’2021
Specially-formulated wax, silk flowers, pigment, wire, jaw-to-jaw swivel, quick-link shackles, silk Duchesse satin, 5/16" Grade 30 Proof coil chain, paper towels, Velcro, thread, plastic
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York

Petah Coyne is best known for her grandly scaled sculptures that incorporate from natural elements–be they flowers, feathers, earth, hair, trees, or thick wax, which often hang from a ceiling in the form of chandeliers. She creates compositions in which her objects act and interact, and combines them to create breathtakingly fantastical, intensely theatrical worlds. Here, in this sculptural installation, the artist is working on a smaller scale, presenting luscious bouquets of silk flowers that are wax-dipped, each named in tribute to a significant woman artist, writer, or political figure. Originally the group of 11 bouquets called “Color of Heaven” designed the Frank Furness building at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Five pieces from that bouquet are shown here and colored warm pink and deep violet are a departure from Coyne’s penchant for working in black and white. These flowers are named to honor sculptor Ruth Asawa, author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, novelist Marilynne Robinson, and painter Hannah Wilke.

Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art. Link above for free tickets.

@nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture @lehmancuny @cunyedu
@petahcoyne @galerielelong
#bronxgallery #artgallery

Lily Cox-Richard Drone Chandelier No. 2, 2024 26.5

Lily Cox-Richard
Drone Chandelier No. 2, 2024
26.5 x 23 inches
Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York

Lily Cox-Richard’s Drone Chandelier No. 2 carries a fascinating multitude of meanings. The artist created her first “drone chandelier” piece for an exhibition at MASS MOCA in 2022, in which a flying drone was garlanded with crystals that acting as prisms cast an array of rainbows. That exhibition, entitled “Weep Holes,” focused on the mournful, but cleansing effects of “a good sob.” In this original iteration, the drone chandelier “freed from surveillance duty, gets to throw rainbows,” in a kind of cathartic release. From this original concept piece, Cox-Richard produced versions that are actual working chandeliers. She took apart drones and cast elements of them in brass, which she then wired together to make working chandeliers. Although the initial concept of the flying drone chandelier was poetic and freeing, the work has other, more ominous, connotations. Rather than being in a kind of “retirement” through repurposing, the viewer is left to wonder if their surveillance continues over the seemingly benign crystal-draped chandelier, quietly recording domestic dinner table conversations. The “magisterial gaze” of the chandelier, positioned as an ever-observing entity overhead, Cox-Richards’s work enters into a fascinating dialogue with Liu Bolin’s Sala Bianca, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze, located nearby.

Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art. Link above for free tickets.

Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10-4
Works by four dozen artists explore the motif and meaning of the chandelier through sculptural forms, photography, painting, drawing, and installation. This stunning collaborative exhibition is spread across three CUNY venues.

@nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture @lehmancuny @cunyedu
#bronxgallery #artgallery

Clare Celeste Börsch Holding Light II, 2024 Paper

Clare Celeste Börsch
Holding Light II, 2024
Paper and mixed media
24-inch diameter
Courtesy of the artist

Holding Light II is a new iteration from Berlin-based Clare Celeste Börsch, who explores of the interplay of light and shadow. Her chandelier of meticulously hand-cut imagery of the natural world harkens back to elaborately detailed Victorian collage, often made by women during the 19th century from printed papers with colorful designs. The design’s heavily patterned detail generated a distinctive aesthetic, which has parallels to Börsch’s work. Her contemporary chandelier features overlapping flora and fauna that the eye must work to delineate. The artist then transforms the space surrounding the chandelier through the shadows it casts, creating depth and movement by its use of negative space. In this way, the shadows that appear ghostlike on the walls of the gallery speak to the rapid loss of animal and plant life occurring around the planet. Börsch frequently works with found imagery from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, a virtual collection of naturalist imagery, and Holding Light II speaks to the beauty and fragility of biodiversity, reflecting on both the urgency of preserving our ecosystems and the profound loss already endured. Börsch's creative practice balances optimism—highlighting solutions to our planetary crisis—and a mourning for species lost.

Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art. Link above for free tickets.

Lehman College Art Gallery, 250 Bedford Park West, Bronx, NY; lehmangallery.org
Fine Arts Building
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10-4

Works by four dozen artists explore the motif and meaning of the chandelier through sculptural forms, photography, painting, drawing, and installation. This stunning collaborative exhibition is spread across three CUNY venues.

@nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture @lehmancuny @cunyedu
@clarecelesteart
#bronxgallery #artgallery

The semester is well underway in the Art Departmen

The semester is well underway in the Art Department at Lehman College. To learn more visit https://www.lehman.edu/academics/arts-humanities/art/

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@concerts_in_the_heights with @kendraberentsen per

@concerts_in_the_heights with @kendraberentsen performing today.! Join us for the upcoming concert series. Link above for free tickets. @lehmancuny

Liu Bolin Sala Bianca, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze, 202

Liu Bolin
Sala Bianca, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze, 2022
Archival inkjet print
44 ¼ x 59 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery
奕来画廊

In the chandelier adorned ballroom of the Pitti Palace─the dazzling “white hall” and the largest room in the former home of the Renaissance Medici family, stands a concealed man─the artist Liu Bolin. Bolin, known as an “art chameleon” uses this chandelier as the perfect visual symbol of power, and shows the desire to be concealed from the threat of that power, even when under the harshest illumination. His work makes a fascinating contrast with Lily Cox-Richard’s Drone Chandelier No. 2, shown hanging nearby, which emphasizes the power to record and observe from the magisterial or teaching view, while Bolin’s work acts as a visual refusal of the observing eye. Liu’s Hiding in Florence highlighted the artist blending into some of the city’s best-known landmarks, among them the Piazza della Signoria, the Uffizi Galleries, and Palazzo Vecchio. These photographs were completed as part of the wider series, Hiding in Italy, which has Liu “disappearing” across the cities of Milan, Venice, Verona, and Rome. An internationally renowned artist, Bolin has become “invisible” in front of landmarks around the world, and also amidst piles of garbage, groups of anonymous immigrants, and stocked supermarket shelves. He says, “When I work on a new piece, I pay more attention to the expression of ideas. For instance, why would I make myself invisible? What will making myself invisible here cause people to think?”

Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art. Link above for free tickets.

Lehman College Art Gallery, 250 Bedford Park West, Bronx, NY; lehmangallery.org
Fine Arts Building
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10-4

Works by four dozen artists explore the motif and meaning of the chandelier through sculptural forms, photography, painting, drawing, and installation. This stunning collaborative exhibition is spread across three CUNY venues.

@nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture @lehmancuny @cunyedu @liubolin @elikleingallery

#bronxgallery #artgallery

Julie Allen Orb, 2017 Neoprene, vinyl, plastic,

Julie Allen Orb, 2017
Neoprene, vinyl, plastic, marble, thread,
lamp, metal
13 x 14 x 13 inches

Satellite, 2017
Neoprene, vinyl, plastic, marble, thread, metal 5 x 8 ½ x 8 ½ inches
Courtesy of the artist and McKenzie Fine Art

Traditional chandeliers in historical styles often took inspiration of form from the branching of trees and flowers in nature. Here, though, Julie Allen creates a chandelier in shades of vivid orange and fuchsia that is a Pop-inspired futuristic object. Her work would look at home in The Jetsons, the early 1960s animated cartoon that presented a humorous and stylized look at the future, which was also a cultural artifact very much of its time, reflecting America’s interest in the “space race.” Allen makes her chandelier from soft materials that appear cuddly, rather than the spiky metal most often visually associated with human-made space objects. This “orb” and its small “satellite,” which could almost be a cat toy, seem less examples of a cool technological information-gathering future and more a camp/retro idea of how the future might look. Allen’s work also nods to Claes Oldenburg, the Swedish-born American Pop artist who created soft sculptures of everyday objects that challenged traditional notions of sculpture by using unconventional materials and soft, pliable forms. Rather than emanating a strong light, Allen’s orb glows very softly, beckoning the viewer to peer under and then up into its interior. Within her Orb, Allen created a padded, creamy interior that glows with an ethereal light, suggesting the soft insides of a luminescent, space-traveling oyster.

Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art. Link above for free tickets.

Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10-4
Works by four dozen artists explore the motif and meaning of the chandelier through sculptural forms, photography, painting, drawing, and installation. This stunning collaborative exhibition is spread across three CUNY venues.

@nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture @lehmancuny @cunyedu
@mckenzie_fine_art
#bronxgallery #artgallery

Join us this Thursday for Concerts in the Heights

Join us this Thursday for Concerts in the Heights presentation of

Art Songs
Thursday, 1 pm, October 10, 2024

A vocal recital with Soprano Kendra Berentsen. Works by Wolff, Strauss, Britten, Kramer, and the Great American Songbook.

@lehmancuny
@nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture @concerts_in_the_heights

#freeconcert #freeconcerts #freeconcertsnyc #bronx #bronxconcerts

Enjoy some pics of this past Sundays Inclusive Fam

Enjoy some pics of this past Sundays Inclusive Family Program based on the artwork of @charlottawestergren as part of our exhibition, Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art. Join us next time on November 10, 10:30- 12:30. Link to register above ⬆️ @lehmancuny @nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture

Deb Achak Chandelier, 2020 Archival pigment print

Deb Achak
Chandelier, 2020
Archival pigment print
Edition of 5
45 x 30 inches
© Deb Achak
Courtesy of Winston Wächter Fine Art

Deb Achak creates a portrait of a dark and glittering chandelier, which appears both Gothically ominous and coolly soothing. The artist removes the chandelier from its obvious surrounding, but notes that “this particular one hangs over my bed and has captured my attention for many years. I took the liberty of adjusting the color to sapphire blue (my birthstone) because it felt right. Finding beauty in my everyday surroundings has been my practice for as long as I can remember, however in 2020 (and the years that followed) it became more essential.” Originally a mental health social worker, the artist says, “COVID impacted my ability to travel and shoot street photography, but it gave me push to create closer to home. . . . Creating beauty during times of stress or tension is therapeutic on many levels.” Achak, as photographer, creates images with a simplicity that beguiles because she removes an object from its surroundings allowing the eye to focus on the purity of its form and its inherent symmetry. Photographing the chandelier from below, Achak creates a “reverential” point of view that makes it impossible for the eye to judge the size and scale of the actual object. We might be observing a glittering iceberg emerging from the sea.
Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art. Link above for free tickets.

Lehman College Art Gallery, 250 Bedford Park West, Bronx, NY; lehmangallery.org
Fine Arts Building
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10-4

Works by four dozen artists explore the motif and meaning of the chandelier through sculptural forms, photography, painting, drawing, and installation. This stunning collaborative exhibition is spread across three CUNY venues.

@nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture @lehmancuny @cunyedu
@adelsongalleries @federicouribeart
#bronxgallery #artgallery

Fall views on campus 🍂 @lehmancuny @cunyedu

Fall views on campus 🍂 @lehmancuny @cunyedu

Join us this Sunday for an Inclusive Family Progra

Join us this Sunday for an Inclusive Family Program!
October 6 from 10:30-12:30. Free tickets click above.

Create a Suspended Sculpture!

Experience an inquiry-based inclusive family tour of our exhibition, Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art. Create a suspended sculpture based on the work of Charlotta Westergren.

Lehman College Art Gallery, 250 Bedford Park West, Bronx, NY; lehmangallery.org
Fine Arts Building

Works by four dozen artists explore the motif and meaning of the chandelier through sculptural forms, photography, painting, drawing, and installation. This stunning collaborative exhibition is spread across three CUNY venues.

Artists:
@andrewlambdinmoore @assumevividastrofocus
@broakes @carlosrolon14 @clarecelesteart @debachak @dczeey @ilyaemiliakabakov @federicouribeart @gfuenmayor77 @thejeanlowe @philipp_lachenmann @ranhwangstudio @jeanne_silverthorne #julieallen @kaorumansour @kenweaverart @kirstenhassenfeld @lee.essex @lesleydill1 @lilycoxrichard @liubolin @lizbethmitty @neffm @darcmennis @michikoitatani @charlotta_westergren585 @tarravechia @tim_wilson @tompart @sunilgarg3d

@adelsongalleries @ceysson_benetiere @storage.archive @mckenzie_fine_art @yanceyrichardsongallery @winstonwachter @leilahellergallery #dotfiftyone.gallery @elikleingallery @harpersbooks @marisanewmanprojects @nathaliekarggallery

@nyscouncilonthearts @nyculture @lehmancuny @cunyedu

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