CNR TO HOST SOLO ART
EXHIBITION FOR SAS FACULTY MEMBER
CRISTINA DE GENNARO IN MOONEY CENTER GALLERY
NEW
ROCHELLE, NY, March 13, 2006 -- The Mooney Center Gallery at The
College of New Rochelle (CNR) will host a solo art exhibition, Improbable Spring, by Cristina de
Gennaro, Associate Professor of Art in the College’s School of Arts
& Sciences. The exhibition will be on display in the Mooney
Center Gallery from March 27 through April 11. On Wednesday,
April 5 at 6:45 pm, Professor de Gennaro will speak about her work in
Romita Auditorium. The lecture and exhibition are free and open to the
public.
Mooney Center Gallery is
located at CNR’s Main Campus, 29 Castle Place, New Rochelle, NY 10805.
Mondays through Thursdays from 9:30 am to 9:00 pm; Friday and Saturday,
9:30 am to 5:00 pm, and Sunday, 12 noon to 4:00 pm. Photos and
images are available upon request. For additional information,
tours, and directions to CNR, please call (914) 654-5423 or log on to: www.cnr.edu/CNR/cnr-directions.html#NEWROCHELLE.
Improbable Spring is an
installation art work comprised of 44 small paintings combining
gouache, archival ink-jet prints, and beeswax on mulberry (rice) paper,
as well as 44 cut-out silhouettes on “found” wallpaper, hung from thin
wooden dowels. The subject of the work is drawn from Professor de
Gennaro’s experience of the loss of her father, the imagery inspired by
a game that she and her father used to play each spring to see who
might spot the first bird of the season. The robin, long associated
with spring and rebirth, also relates – through juxtaposition and the
handling of media – to notions of temporality, loss and memory.
For example, one
wall -- comprised of 44 panels -- is hung from wooden dowels and
scattered to create a “landscape” of birds. The brightly painted robins
contrast with the black and white images onto which they are
superimposed -- nests, trees, bird watchers, houses, gymnasts, and
people on stilts. The other wall is comprised of 44 panels of
“found” wallpaper sheets, also hung on thin wooden dowels at varying
distances from its surface. The sheets of floral wallpaper carry
associations to spring, home, and the family, while the cut-out shapes
formally mirror the painted images of the birds on the other wall to
reference notions of presence and absence.
** Professor de
Gennaro is also exhibiting a new site-specific installation art work
entitled Memento (If These
Walls Could Talk) in the Wave Hill
Glyndor Gallery's spring exhibition, Survive/Thrive/Alive. The
exhibition is open from March 4 through May 2. Gallery hours are
Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00am - 4:30pm. A reception for the artists
will be held on Sunday, April 23rd from 1:00 - 4:00pm. Wave Hill
is located at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue in the Bronx,
NY. More information can be found at www.wavehill.org/arts.
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The first Catholic
college for women in
New York
State, The College of New Rochelle was founded in 1904 by the Ursuline
Order.
Today, it comprises the all-women School of Arts & Sciences, and
three
schools which admit women and men: the School of New Resources (for
adult
learners), the School of Nursing and the Graduate School. The
main
campus of the College is located in lower Westchester County, 16 miles
north
of New York City. The
College maintains five other campus locations in New York City. Visit
the College’s website at www.cnr.edu.
