December 19, 2018

Window installation: December 19, 2018 – January 8, 2019 (The galleries will be closed at this time but the windows will be on view from outside.) Gallery exhibition: January 11 – 27, 2019 Environmental Justice as a Civil Right was originally launched as Antigua and Barbuda’s inaugural National Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale in May of 2018. It is adapted to the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries as the second Venice Biennale exhibition to be presented at The New School. The exhibition is an investigation into the acute crisis of climate change facing the small island nation of Antigua…

November 17, 2018

Can works of art create social space through the communities they implicate? Convergence explores this possibility through art works that address race, gender, class and nationality, and are composed in dialogue, unison and dissonance within the exhibition space. Inspired by Homi Bhabha’s description of social processes where “things come from different places, through different media, different histories, and converge in a place, idea, or image” (Artforum/2017), this show brings together an assemblage that disobeys the conventional boundaries of individual works, blurring the lines of authorship and allowing new forms of collective expression to emerge from these interactions. Curated by Utsa…

October 27, 2018

Fashion and Race: Deconstructing Ideas, Reconstructing Identities invites you to consider the ways in which race has affected the fashion system in terms of visibility, aesthetics, and power. It features a constellation of work from students and alumni who are harnessing their creativity to transgress the limitations they have been confronted with, deconstructing the very idea of ‘race’ as they reconstruct identities of their own. Featuring the work of four Parsons alumni, Stevens Añazco, Katiuscia Gregoire, Cecile Mouen, and Avery Youngblood, this exhibition reclaims identity by contesting the residual effects of race through the use of  fashion, photography, and illustration. It responds…

October 11, 2018

This year’s Parsons Alumni exhibition explores the psychology behind the behavioral manipulation that we, as digital participants and consumers, experience on a daily basis. Mobilized via media outlets, advertising, marketing, entertainment, and social media platforms in an attempt to predict, control, and change all manner of social, political, and economic behaviors, manipulation tactics have stark effects on global populations and widespread repercussions that are increasingly impossible to ignore. The artists in this exhibition treat the gallery as a conditioning chamber and use their work as a way to peel back the layers of manipulation we experience in a hyper-social digital…

September 27, 2018

Earth Manual Project – This Could Save Your Life showcases some of the best practices for dealing with disasters at different stages—from preparedness education to response and relief efforts—with a particular focus on practices that use creative design ideas. Originating in Japan, the exhibition includes examples of work from countries where natural disasters are frequent, such as Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Projects introduced in the exhibition utilize distinctly creative and innovative approaches to disaster issues. The exhibition is curated by Hirokazu Nagata, President of Plus Arts and Vice Director of Design and Creative Center Kobe (KIITO) in Japan. The…

September 27, 2018

Embedded in the Earth Manual Project – This Could Save Your Life — an exhibition featuring design responses to disaster preparedness — on view in the Sheila C. Johnson Center’s Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Home is Where the Heart Is explores local artists’ reactions to Hurricane Sandy. As we approach the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, an interdisciplinary group of artists have come together to create a project that poetically responds to place and displacement in the face of ecological disaster. Co-curator and participating artist Andrew Cornell Robinson recovered a dollhouse from his family’s home in a community devastated by…

September 17, 2018

Disaster Preparedness in the Constructed Environment features the products of a week-long disaster preparedness intensive at the Parsons School of Constructed Environments in Fall 2017. Students developed design responses to natural and human-made disasters across the disciplines of architecture, interior design, lighting design, and product design. Generated from design briefs on New York-related disaster scenarios of the 1977 and 2003 blackouts, 9/11, and Hurricane Sandy, and fortified with resources and data gathered by The Japan Foundation Asia Center and student researchers from The New School’s Zolberg Center on Migration and Mobility, this exhibition provides fuel for SCE’s Disaster Preparedness Intensive…

August 14, 2018

NOW features photographs, video installations, photographic installations, and printed works. Parsons School of Design at The New School University presents NOW, an exhibition of thesis work from its MFA Photography department at the Johnson Design Center’s Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries. Works include photographs, video installations, photographic installation, and printed works. This exhibition features thesis work by Zeshan Ahmed, Sophie Sahara, Maryanne Braine, Siho Chang, Amanda Field, Shannon Finnell, Hannah Harley, María del Mar Hernández Gil de Lamadrid, Lindsay Hill, Huang Guaier + Wang Runzhong, Mónika Izing, Jenna Petrone, Isadora Frost, Ariana Sarwari, Rich Wade, and Eva Zar. For more…

July 5, 2018

The Nemesis Machine, a large-scale installation by British artist Stanza, is a mechanical mini-metropolis that monitors the behaviors, activities, and changing information of the world around us through the use of networked devices and information electronically transmitted across the Internet. Customized and adapted to each site in which it is displayed, the artwork consists of a city of electronic components that reflects in real time what is happening in its surroundings and beyond. The Nemesis Machine visualizes life in the metropolis on the basis of data transmitted from a network of wireless sensors and represents the complexities of the real…

June 21, 2018

The Architectural League Prize is one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects and designers. The Prize, established in 1981, recognizes exemplary and provocative work by young practitioners and provides a public forum for the exchange of their ideas. Each year The Architectural League and the Young Architects + Designers Committee organize a portfolio competition. Six winners are then invited to present their work in a variety of public fora, including lectures, an exhibition, and on the League’s website. The 2018 theme, Objective, asked entrants to consider objectivity today as simultaneously elevated and undermined, in an era in which…