The body of work titled (dis)content, displayed on the east side of the Dowd Gallery, was produced as a part of a BFA thesis requirement by Alyssa Cusimano, a painting major in the Art & Art History Department. Cusimano's work examines the effects of the beauty industry and the unrealistic standards of beauty that are perpetuated through social media.
Student Select '23 exhibition features artwork created by SUNY Cortland students during the academic year 2022-23. The display spans three spaces - Dowd Gallery, Hallway Gallery, and Critiques Space, highlighting student art produced from across disciplines and majors, reflecting a wealth of creativity and dedication to the craft.
The student works will be on display from Monday, April 24, and will remain open to visitors on graduation day, May 13, from 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The gallery is closed on Saturday and Sunday except for graduation day.
Kindred Quilt is a nearly 4-minute animated film produced by a fourth-year graduating student, Katherine Kressner, from the Graphic Design & Digital Media Program, Art & Art History Department. The Saratoga Springs native created this project as a year-long Independent Study course led by Professor Martine Barnaby.
Imagination Celebration is a collaborative exhibition between regional art teachers, their students, and SUNY Cortland. The showcase includes both student artists and their teachers in three spaces in the Dowd Fine Arts Center.
(re)Play, is a solo show by Brooklyn-based artist David B. Smith presenting an immersive, object-centered exhibition that includes recent and re-interpreted site-specific installations, interactive environments, and wall and floor objects.
The BFA Thesis Exhibition is a two-person showcase featuring students graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The final projects are produced by Lindsay Richards and Jacob Robinson.
Family Tree is a group exhibition combining art and poetry. This unique project brings together the works of four sisters with careers as artists and writers: elin o'Hara slavick (Irvine, CA), Madeleine Slavick (Wairarapa, New Zealand), Sarah Slavick (Boston, MA), and Susanne Slavick (Pittsburgh, PA).
The site-specific installation Runaway focuses on how issues of control play out within public space, as well as various aspects of our relationship to labor.
Student Select '22 is an exhibition featuring artwork created by SUNY Cortland students.
The Dowd Gallery presents a fully accessible showcase of student art produced from across disciplines and majors after a couple of previous renditions affected by the global pandemic. The Art Exhibition Association (aka Art Club) members invited Jack Elliott to take the role of exhibition juror. Elliott is the past Dowd Gallery's featured artist who exhibited his solo show in the fall of 2021. He is an Associate Professor from the Design and Environmental Analysis Department, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and came to select artwork for the exhibition on Wednesday, April 20. He chose 66 pieces from 32 artists representing ceramics, digital illustration, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, fibers, graphic design, sculpture, and video.
High+Low: A Forty-five Year Retrospective, is an exhibition by visual artist, writer, and curator, D. Dominick Lombardi. The traveling solo show features over 80 pieces, including sculptures, drawings, paintings, collages, and assemblages selected by T. Michael Martin, Assistant Professor, Curator, and Director at the Clara M. Eagle Gallery at Murray State University, in Murray, Kentucky. The curated collection represents the essence of 20 distinct chapters of the artist's career.
Dowd Fine Arts Center, Room 106,
48 Graham Avenue and Prospect Terrace Cortland, NY 13045
Phone: 607-753-4216
Fax: 607-753-5934
Contact:
Scott Oldfield, Interim Director
scott.oldfield@cortland.edu
Hours:
Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Thr: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Walk-ins are welcome. You may also schedule a visit.
The gallery is closed when the College is not in session
