Exhibit About Art Center @ Picker

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Fri, Aug 26, 2011

Colgate's Picker Art Gallery will host an exhibition about the building in which it resides.

Colgate's Picker Art Gallery will host a reception on Tuesday, Sept. 13, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. to celebrate the new exhibition, An Architect’s Vision: Paul Rudolph and Colgate’s Creative Arts Center and the concurrent exhibition, After You Left, photographs by Chris Mottalini. Both open on August 30 and remain on view through October 7.

The story of the design of the Dana Arts Center is contained in Rudolph’s drawings, minutes of meetings, news reports, and correspondence, much of which is held in Colgate’s archives. Drawing on these resources, as well as documents and drawings from the Rudolph Archive at the Library of Congress, Professor Robert McVaugh has pieced together the process that led from the selection of an architect in 1963 and the grand vision that Rudolph proposed, to the Dana Arts Center as it exists today. Many of the drawings presented by Rudolph to members of the faculty and administration in early December, 1963 are on display, plus a computer model
generated by architect Bruce Ward from the early drawings that allows visitors to experience the intended structure.

Mottalini’s project After You Left, They Took It Apart (Demolished Paul Rudolph Homes) includes the 24 prints also exhibited at the Picker Art Gallery. The images of Paul Rudolph homes, taken only days prior to being demolished, capture a state of Modernist architecture witnessed by few people. Mottalini’s photographs are the final portraits of these destroyed homes.

The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 1p.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information, call 228-7634.

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