Handwerker Gallery Newsletter
Summer/Fall 2000 – Volume 2, Number 2
...At least, the debates about the Rockwell and Parrish exhibitions have, among other things, allowed critics and others (people writing to the press, for example) to reaffirm their Greenbergian views - that is, horror at the invasion of Rockwell into the museum and into the discourse of "art," and confidence in the persistence of what are fundamentally mainstream, modernist, aesthetic values.
This type of socially and culturally marginalized visual production was part of a movement developed in Europe in the immediate aftermath of World War II as a radical critique of a Western culture that, for all its overt embrace of higher values, had, in the last instance, failed to prevent the Holocaust.
The Handwerker Gallery's annual senior student exhibition is a persuasive overview of the work of Ithaca College art and photography students.
...Through the works in the exhibit, viewers were able to learn more about the student artists, their backgrounds, and their ideas, as well as to take a critical look at the images themselves.
...In one of Michael McGrath's installations, Grass Balls (2000), 11 grass balls hung from the ceiling.... Linley, McGrath, and Tim Smith's Babies installation included a warning: "Viewers may find some pieces of artwork explicit or disturbing."
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What Does Modernism Do?
From the Permanent Collection: Jean Dubuffet
Annual Senior Student Exhibition