Artists from Carnegie Mellon's School of Art, including faculty, alumni and students, will present their dynamic contributions to contemporary art this spring at several exhibits and events in New York City.

WHITNEY WONDERS - through May 30
Alumni Mel Bochner (A'62) and Katie Grinnan (BFA '92) and Assistant Professor of Art Golan Levin have works in the Whitney Biennial running through May. For more, visit http://www.whitney.org/exhibition/biennial.shtml

COLLECTION (OR, HOW I SPENT A YEAR) - through April 30
Peter Coffin (MFA ¹00) is exhibiting two works in Collection (or, How I Spent a Year), curated by Bob Nickas for P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY. http://www.ps1.org/cut/press/collection.html

LARGE SCALE DRAWINGS - through April 30
Jonathan Borofsky (BFA '64) is exhibiting in Large Scale Drawings at Paula Cooper Gallery's 521 West 21st Street location. http://www.artnet.com/ag/galleryhomepage.asp?gid=264

PAPER RAD - through May 29 (closed May 4-8)
Jacob Ciocci, third year graduate student, presents with Paper Rad at Foxy Production, 547 West 27th Street. For more, visit http://www.foxyproduction.com/ExhibitionPaperRad.html

PERFORMING TECHNOLOGY - 8 p.m., Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1, $12.
Assistant Professor of Art Golan Levin will also participate in Performing Technology from the 2004 Whitney Biennial as part of the NEW SOUND, NEW YORK FESTIVAL: 25 Years Beyond New Music, New York, presented by The Kitchen with The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union for the advancement of Science and Art.

Levin, creator of Dialtones Telesymphony (2001), collaborates with artist-engineer Zachary Lieberman on an audiovisual piece probing "the subtleties of manual expression." The program will also include live digital samplings from the 2004 Whitney Biennial, anti-fi techno-punk feminist Tracy + The Plastics spinning a fractured multimedia video art experiment in the politics of identity and sexuality, and Cory Arcangel from BEIGE, topping off the evening. BEIGE is an art group that has pioneered the practice of hacking obsolete 8bit computers and video game systems, and was hailed as one of 2002's "Top Ten Art Moments" in The New York Times. For more, visit http://www.thekitchen.org/04S_april.html

FLOCK & FABLE - May 6 though July 31
Patricia Bellan-Gillen, the Dorothy L. Stubnitz Professor of Art, and Andrew Johnson (MFA '94), will exhibit in Flock & Fable: Animal Identity in Contemporary Art, curated by Amie Robinson (BFA '98) at the Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street. The opening reception is 6 - 8 p.m., May 6. For more, visit http://chelseaartmuseum.org/exhibits/2004/flock_fable/

FREE MUSICAL VIDEOZ - May 6
Jacob Ciocci, third year graduate student in the School of Art, will participate in Free Musical VIDEOZ, a live video performance with Paper Rad and Cory Arcangel/BEIGE (included in the Whitney Biennial) as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Teen Night.

ATHARINE KUHARIC SOLO EXHIBIT - May 27 through June 26
Katharine Kuharic's solo exhibit runs at P.P.O.W. Gallery at 555 West 25th Street. http://www.ppowgallery.com/main.html http://www.ppowgallery.com/artists/KatharineKuharic/index.html

Earlier this spring the School of Art participated in the following exhibits.

2004 BLACK MARIA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL- March 26 in NYC, through June 15 nationally
Professor James Duesing's animation is included in the 2004 Black Maria Film and Video Festival, a touring exhibition of bold contemporary works drawn from the annual collection of 50 award-winning films and videos. It annually visits more than 70 major public institutions, colleges, theaters and community organizations throughout the nation and beyond, including the Millennium Film Workshop at 66 East 4th. For more, visit

http://www.njcu.edu/programs/taebmff/blackmariafest.html

http://www.millenniumfilm.org/showing/showing.html

UNCHARTED TERRITORY - through April 14
Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) exhibited in Uncharted Territory: Subjective Mapping by Artists and Cartographers at Julie Saul Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street in Chelsea. The exhibit includes historical maps and works by a wide range of contemporary artists working in a variety of mediums including painting, collage, drawing, photography and printmaking. For more, visit http://www.saulgallery.com/chronicle/uncharted_territory.html

TENDER BODIES - March 22
Professor James Duesing's New York premiere of Tender Bodies opened SHORTFEST, an annual showcase, cosponsored by the New York Film and Video Council and The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film and Media at the Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street.

The program featured short documentaries, narratives, and animated and experimental films, all of which have been shown at international festivals and are now having their New York premieres. Clare Gartrell Davis, President of the New York Film and Video Council, introduced the program.

Nine films from seven countries were on the evening's program. Duesing's Tender Bodies is a "cutting-edge, multilayered work...several years in the making... an outstanding example of computer animation produced on HD CC am with Dolby digital sound and then output to film. For more, visit http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/momafilm/intl_shorts_2004.html

NOT WITHOUT A STAR - through March 20
Taryn FitzGerald (BFA '84) had a solo exhibit, Not Without A Star, at CUCHIFRITOS art gallery/project space at 120 Essex St. between Delancey and Rivington. Not without a Star is a site-specific video installation exploring cross-cultural workings on individual identity, as experienced within local immigrant communities at the Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side. For more, visit http://www.artistsai.org/cuchifritos/Exhibits/not_w_a_star/index.html