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…

June 1, 2018

The Art.Write.Now.2018 National Exhibition features the most creative visual and literary works by teens from across the country. These young artists received top honors in the prestigious Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, which were adjudicated this year by dozens of notable artists and writers including Paul Chan, Marc Brown, Kulapat Yantrasast, Christiane Paul, Mel Kendrick, Sharon Hayes, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Jakab  Orsós, Tyehimba Jess, Lisa Lucas, Ocean Vuong, and Jennifer A. Nielsen. The exhibition spans two locations in New York City – the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design at The New School and …

May 10, 2018

The Parsons Festival is an annual series of art and design events in which cutting-edge student work is presented to the Parsons community and the public. The festival takes place at the end of each academic year and includes thesis exhibitions and critiques, thought-provoking public programs, interactive installations, gallery openings, workshops, and special events leading up to Commencement. The School of Design Strategies’ Integrated Design Program capstone exhibition is shown in the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries and the Art and Design History and Theory MADS exhibition is on view in the hallway of the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries….

March 16, 2018

In 1940, the psychoanalyst, political theorist, biologist, and pioneer of body therapies Wilhelm Reich taught at The New School for Social Research. His course “Character Formation: Biological and Sociological Aspects” introduced students to the outlines of Reich’s theories of psychosomatic dynamics, and how the psyche is caught between the bioelectrical energies of the body and social currents, between freedom and fear, sexuality and fascism. This project asks the question, “How could Reich’s ideas be interpreted by a student of fashion, and put to use in the realm of dress?” Reich’s focus on embodiment and cognition, material agency and the vibrancy…

February 17, 2018

TEST BED: a Modern Abaton is an installation, an exhibition, and a series of fourteen public performances and dialogues on the interaction of space, the slumbering body, and the accessories of sleep. TEST BED, the installation, transforms the gallery into a modern abaton, a space the ancient Greeks dedicated to Asclepius, the god of healing, and devoted to collective therapeutic sleep and prophetic dreaming. TEST BED encourages visitors to engage in self-directed as well as collective repose; to recline, nap, or daydream utilizing “soft tools” – cushions, pillows, headrests, etc. – that are hung on the walls and scattered on the felted…

February 9, 2018

THE KELLEN GALLERY IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO AN ELECTRICAL FIRE IN THE BUILDING. UPDATES WILL BE POSTED AS THEY ARE RECEIVED – PLEASE CHECK BACK.  WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. The Ocean After Nature considers the ocean as reflecting the ecological, cultural, political, and economic realities of a globalized world. Featuring work by 20 artists and collectives in a variety of media — including photography, video, sculpture, and design — the exhibition explores new ways of representing the seascape as a means to identify and critique land-sea divides, the circulation of people and goods, and the vulnerabilities…

December 20, 2017

Whale Bay, Antarctica No. 4, 84×144, 2016 (reproduction) Zaria Forman Window installation (galleries closed, installation viewable from the street) December 20, 2017 – January 15, 2018 88 Cores  Peggy Weil January 19, 2018 – February 11, 2018 Closed Saturday, Jan 20; Sunday, Jan 21 – open 12:00 pm – 1:45 pm In Human Time, the first exhibition of the Climate Museum, explores intersections of polar ice, humanity, and time through video and photography installations by artists Zaria Forman and Peggy Weil. It also includes a timeline with artifacts relating the physical history of the Arctic to its significant influence on…

December 2, 2017

“Governing Bodies” is a collaborative group show that tests democratic mechanisms in creative practice. Inspired by the United States’ 2016 national election, “Governing Bodies” began as a process to enhance community and to dissect democratic decision making. Over nine weeks, the artists in the exhibition met weekly to make work using a variety of voting processes, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of collective consensus. “Governing Bodies” features work from current Parsons MFA Photography students Zeshan Ahmed, Maryanne Braine, Siho Chang, Amanda Field, Shannon Finnell, Isadora Frost, Hannah Harley, María del Mar Hernández Gil de Lamadrid, Huang Guaier + Wang Runzhong, Mónika Izing, Jenna…