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Left: Eric Repke, Princeton Day School Ceramics Teacher
Right: Thatcher Hullerman Cook, Princeton Day School Upper School Photography Teacher

Currency and Costume in Pre-Colonial Africa
September 8 – October 2, 2014
Cultural Objects from Nigeria, Kenya and the Cameroon.An exhibition featuring a collection of 19th and early 20th century textiles as well as bracelet, knife, and anklet currencies from across the African continent.

Confluence: Contemporary Indian Arts
October 14 — November 13, 2014
Young artists painting in India today
“Confluence: Contemporary Indian Art” is a well-balanced selection of contemporary art that represents the best of modern art in India today. This collection was brought to the United States by Ms. Dadha of Prakrit Arts, Chennai, India. The artists in this exhibition represent many different styles while maintaining their Indian identity. Some artists work in realism, some are modernist, some idealistic and some abstract.

Jerry Hirniak: Still/Moving
November 24 — December 18, 2014
“Still/Moving” displays Upper School Art teacher Jerry Hirniak’s current body of photographic work, which investigates the way photographic processes and technologies connect to perception, memory and culture. His work is comprised of time exposures, multi-exposures, Xerox reproduction, direct manipulation of the film stock, and issues of scale and of context, such as installations using photographic images.

Thaddeus Erdahl
January 12 — January 29, 2015
Ceramic sculpture and portraiture with compelling stories

Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick & Danielle Picard-Sheehan: Trapped in Time
February 9 — March 5, 2015
Photographs from today's Cuba

Matthew Cordell: In Search of (Im)Possibilities
March 30 — April 23, 2015
"Imagine the Possibilities" guest artist
Made possible by the John D. Wallace, Jr. ’78 Memorial Guest Artist Series Fund

Princeton Day School Student Exhibitions
May 4 — May 22, 2015
Highlights from work created by PDS students throughout the year

Princeton Day School Senior Projects
May 26 — June 5, 2015
Senior Projects in the Visual Arts

Tom Sheeran — New Paintings
September 9 – October 3, 2013
Tom Sheeran has been an oil painter and muralist for more than twenty years. In this new body of work, Mr. Sheeran strives to paint intuitively, allowing the paintings to evolve on their own. His non-narrative work includes figures, landscapes and seascapes.

Princeton Day School Visual Arts & Design Faculty — Extravagant Media
October 15 – November 15, 2013
Addressing several contemporary themes in painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, sculpture, woodworking and video will be inspirational work created by Princeton Day School faculty members David Burkett, Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick, Jerry Hirniak, Debbie Hillmanno, Chris Maher, Susan Reichlin and Stephanie Stuefer.

Adam Welch — Deconstructing the Local
November 25 – December 20, 2013
Ceramicist Adam Welch uses the brick as a primary object. For Mr. Welch, the brick is characteristic of postmodern appropriation and the marriage of concept and form. His work has a number of metaphorical implications in that he creates sculptures where the brick can be more critcally engaged. Mr. Welch is a Lecturer in Ceramics at the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University.

Origami
January 13 – January 30, 2014
While evidence of origami goes back to the Sung Dynasty in 1000 CE, contemporary interpretations of ori “folding” gami “paper” will be exhibited. This exhibition will feature a loan of juried work from 2013 Origami USA Collection, folded cardboard furniture created by Zach Rotholz from New Haven, Connecticut, and folded paper installations from PDS students.

Samantha Ritter and Liv Aanrud — Metamorphosisters
February 10 – March 6, 2014
After graduating from the Lewis Center at Princeton University in 2013 Samantha Ritter moved to New York to pursue her career. At Princeton Day School, she will exhibit her most recent body of work which includes a series of small sculptures using resin and pantyhose. Los Angeles artist Liv Aanrud creates soft sculptures out of fabric — her abstractions are woven into irregular shapes using flannel, burlap, wool and felt.

Paul Zelinsky — In Search of (Im)Possibilities
March 31 – April 25, 2014
Imagine the Possibilities artist Paul Zelinsky studied at Yale University where he took a course on the history and practice of the picture book taught by renowned author Maurice Sendak. Zelinsky also studied in Rome and received a master’s degree from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Among his awards, he has received a Caldecott Medal for Rapunzel. He will be a visiting artist at the school for two days.

Student Exhibitions
May 5 – May 23, 2014
This exhibit will be shown in the gallery, arts atrium, Upper School, Middle School and Lower School hallways. We will feature highlights from work created by students throughout the year in painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, ceramics, woodworking, video, architecture, collage, installation and assemblage. A huge amount of creativity is celebrated around the entire school during this exhibit.

Peter Lighte: Pieces of China
October 1 through October 5
Peter Lighte P’16 has created twelve lush paintings representing the ancient Chinese signs of the zodiac. The Anne Reid ’72 Art Gallery will hold a silent auction and cocktail reception on Friday, September 28th, for the paintings, graciously donated by Mr. Lighte, with proceeds providing support for Princeton Day School. The paintings will be on display in the gallery for the week following the auction.

Dan Mead and Sally Eagle: Bhutan Culture of Western Asia
October 15 through November 11
Photographers Dan Mead and Sally Eagle will share their images of the sub-alpine Himalayan peaks of the Asian Kingdom of Bhutan. This landlocked country, an unspoiled environment that has been referred to as The Last Shangri-la, works to maintain its rich and unique cultural heritage, which is steeped in the Buddhist tradition. Mr. Mead and Ms. Eagle will meet with Upper School religion classes to discuss Bhutanese culture.

Secret Lives: Art Department Faculty and Staff Exhibit
November 26 through December 19
This will be the second annual Princeton Day School Art Department Faculty and Staff exhibit. Painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, crafts, and poetry from our talented faculty and staff will be exhibited—though this year, the names of the artists will be hidden from immediate view, adding an element of surprise to the exhibit.

Celia Reisman
January 14 through January 31
Celia Reisman paints her architectural vision of suburban landscapes, primarily around Philadelphia. Represented by the Paul Thiebaud Gallery in New York and San Francisco, Ms. Reisman received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University and a Masters of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Yale University. Edward Sozanski of the Philadelphia Inquirer remarked that Ms. Reisman’s work “offers a lushly colored and geometrically harmonious balance between realism and abstraction.”

Wabi-Sabi: Featuring the Work of Stephanie Stuefer and Chris Maher
February 11 through March 7
Two members of the Princeton Day School Art Department, Stephanie Stuefer, ceramics, and Chris Maher, furniture design and sculpture, have created a collaborative installation which includes clay and wood, with the gallery serving as an interactive tea room. This exhibition will be guided by the principles of wabi-sabi, based on the Japanese aesthetic centered on the acceptance of imperfection, and embracing asymmetry and irregularity.

David Wiesner: Imagine the Possibilities
April 1 through April 24
Three-time Caldecott Award-winner David Wiesner will have an exhibition of preliminary sketches and finished works in the gallery while visiting the school as part of the “Imagine the Possibilities” program. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, with a BFA in Illustration, Mr. Wiesner has generously offered to exhibit rarely-seen drawings from his personal collection.

The Student Exhibition
May 6 through May 22
In May, the Anne Reid ’72 Art Gallery, as well as the Arts Atrium, Middle School and Lower School hallways, will feature artwork created by many of our Princeton Day School students. Chosen from works completed throughout the year, the exhibit may include paintings, drawings, printmaking, sculpture, installation, architecture, photography, and film. These exhibits, as well as all of the gallery exhibits, are open to the public.

Mel Leipzig
September 12 to October 6, 2011
Mel Leipzig received a scholarship to study art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and went on to study art at Cooper Union, Yale University and Pratt Institute. He has been elected to membership in the National Academy, received a Fulbright Traveling Fellowship, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and received one of the last individual artists grants from the National Endowment For the Arts. Princeton Day School is honored that Mr. Leipzig will have a painting demonstration during his opening reception on Wednesday, September 14 from 12 – 1:30 pm.


Art Department Faculty Show
October 17 to November 10, 2011
The Anne Reid ’72 Art Gallery presents a special exhibition of work by Princeton Day School’s Art Department Faculty. The exhibition will address several contemporary themes in paintings, drawings, photography, ceramics and sculpture created by art faculty members Caryn Blum, David Burkett, Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick, Jerry Hirniak, Debbie Hillmanno, Chris Maher, Vincent Moreno, Susan Reichlin and Stephanie Stuefer.

Gallery Club Exhibit
November 21 to December 15, 2011
In association with HomeFront’s ArtJam, Gallery Club co-chairs and PDS students, Rachel Maddox and Nicole Keim have curated an exhibit with three artists. Selected from more than thirty acclaimed artists, local and world-renowned, the exhibition will feature the works of Massachusetts-based painter Jon Sarkin, Fishtown/Philadelphia-based glass blower Greg Nangle, and Princeton-based artist and musician Chris Harford. All proceeds from the exhibit will be donated to HomeFront. Stay tuned for a possible special event connected to the opening.

Lily Stockman
January 9 to February 2, 2012
Lily Stockman graduated with a summa cum laude thesis in painting from Harvard's Visual and Environmental Studies Department, and just recently returned from a painting residency in India. As she begins the New York University M.F.A. Program in Studio Art, she will exhibit a series of recent paintings featuring the landscape of New Jersey barns at the Gallery.

Debbie Reichard
February 13 to March 8, 2012
Installation and ceramic artist Debbie Reichard works in wood, sound, clay, metal and fabric to create a play between readymade art and a twist on the everyday. Ms. Reichard has taught sculpture at the University of Southern Maine, the University of Colorado and Princeton University’s Wilson College, and she has exhibited at the Jersey City Museum, the Newark Museum of Art and the Arts Council of Princeton.

Michael Graves
April 2 to April 25, 2012
Michael Graves, one of the twentieth century’s most renowned architects and product designers, is lending his original sketchbooks and tea kettle prototypes for Alessi designs. His napkin drawings, renderings, study models and finished pieces will move the viewer through his entire design process. Drawings of the spout, whistle, handles and production pieces, give the viewer a rare glimpse from concept to production and from production to the consumer.

A Vision of Princeton University 2016
January 11 - February 4
Looking ahead to the next 10 years and beyond, Princeton University Architect Ron McCoy and a team of experts will share some of the important objectives for the 380-acre campus. These plans hold significant value to the Princeton campus and to our community. The exhibition involves upcoming University building designs, three dimensional models, landscape initiatives, public art, sustainable energy objectives, reforestation and water conservation as the University shares some of their goals for the campus which will involve and inspire our future. To learn more, click here.

Invented Places, Invented People
Carol Hanson & Stacie Speer Scott
February 14 - March 11, 2011
This exhibition combines Carol Hanson’s paintings, drawing and monotypes of abstracted nature with Stacie Speer Scott’s collages, which describe personal stories for both. Hanson’s work is primarily oil while Scott’s work is textured, fragmented, molded, embossed and layered with paint, wax, fabric, charcoal and found objects. These two women represent different visions while both express themselves through color, theme and composition.

Michael Waugh
This artist's large-scale, labor-intensive drawings are composed entirely out of hand written historical, social and political text. The exhibit included portraits of members of the 1880’s Harvard /Yale crew teams with lines in his portraits taken from text from Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. Other work was on loan from the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers University and the Schroeder Romero Gallery, New York.

One Thousand Words
Bette Blank
Bette Blank draws upon many of the most iconic figures of our time as well as her most personal home environment using her unique style. From portraits of Condoleezza Rice shopping for shoes with Queen Elizabeth and Aretha Franklin’s Pink Cadillac to her delightful, three-dimensional, medicine cabinet interior, Blank gives us her view of our world.

Blank’s work is in the permanent collections of the Jewish Museum and the Hunterdon Art Museum. The Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York represents her.

Arts & Design Exhibit 2010
May 5- 25 2010

Art surrounds students at PDS and this exhibit of work by Princeton Day School students in lower, middle and upper schools extends beyond the gallery with art showcased throughout the Matthews Arts Wing and entire campus.

"The hallways and galleries throughout the school are once again filled with shockingly brilliant and creative works of art," says Gallery Director Jody Erdman. "From Lower School wooden assemblages to Middle School landscape paintings and Upper School sculptures, prints and video presentations, our students are excited to see how the visual arts makes a difference in their lives."

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Jerry Hirniak
Princeton Day School recently hosted an exhibition of drawings by PDS Upper School visual arts teacher Jerry Hirniak.

987654321 is a meditation on time, death and transformation. The basis for Mr. Hirniak’s drawings is a group of cicada shells found in his backyard. The resin that encases each shell both preserves it in time and simultaneously, through its forceful energy, desecrates it.

Born in England, Mr. Hirniak grew up in Montreal and trained as a painter and printmaker. He has blended experience in the theatre and interests in design and architecture into his practice, incorporating photography, drawing and object making. Mr. Hirniak’s works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Canada.

“I am interested in how spaces, objects and images carry and communicate complex memory, and as a result, the installed works function as a complex and shifting reminder of events, feelings and memories blurred by time,” Mr. Hirniak said. “The show is a countdown, a recording, an enumerating, a way of finding meaning.”

Distant Lives
Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick

The exhibit includes photographs captured while Ms. Hohmuth-Lemonick traveled in Africa chronicling the nursing shortage in Malawi, as well as images from her trip to the Republic of Georgia, where she photographed new mothers and their babies in maternity hospitals in Kutasi and Tbilisi.

“I’ve long been focusing on people who live in developing countries, and who face challenges many in the developed world can’t easily imagine,” Ms. Hohmuth-Lemonick said.

Ms. Hohmuth-Lemonick has received numerous awards for her work, including a Fellowship in Photography from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; a Village Voice Documentary Photography Grant; and a Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The exhibition is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday when school is open and by appointment on weekends. For more information, contact Gallery Director Jody Erdman at (609) 924-6700 or visit www.pds.org


Kids Earth Fund Exhibit
The exhibition featured original artwork by children around the world and to purchase notecards, giclee prints, books, t-shirts and hand-painted reusable bags created from children’s artwork.

Princeton Day School teamed up with Kids Earth Fund Americas to offer a unique opportunity to purchase art created by children for children during a special exhibit December 1 through January 15.

The exhibition featured original artwork by children around the world and to purchase notecards, giclee prints, books, t-shirts and hand-painted reusable bags created from children’s artwork.

“Princeton Day School wholeheartedly supports the Kids Earth Fund,” said Gallery Director Jody Erdman. “We will have beautiful art created by children from around the world hanging on our walls and a live performance from our students during the opening event. We look forward to a special exhibition from a wonderful organization.”

Yasmín Hernández
Soul Rebels

See and hear Yasmín Hernández at PDS Part I. View Part II. Videography by Brit Bucklee '12

“Themes of conquest, struggle, displacement, resistance and cultural syncretism manifest in my art…With my images I reveal and celebrate (s)heroes of hidden histories and their legacies. Each figure depicted -- whether a freedom fighter, a spiritual deity, or my mom -- comes from a place of disenfranchisement and is battling to rise above. My intent is to portray these figures as warriors, goddesses and gods in their own right.” -- Yasmín Hernánde

Ms. Hernández is a Cornell University graduate whose works have been displayed at El Museo del Barrio in New York City, El Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, El Taller Puertorriqueño in Philadelphia, and most recently at El Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol in Vieques, Puerto Rico,

She received an Artist/Activist of the Year Award in 2006 from the NYC-based Art for Change. She also is a recipient of the Ramón Feliciano Social Justice Prize from the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College and a Mujeres Destacadas/Outstanding Latinas Award by New York-based Spanish-language newspaper El Diario/La Prensa.

Describing her work, Ms. Hernández said, “themes of conquest, struggle, displacement, resistance and cultural syncretism manifest in my art…

Bill Hardy
Breaking Ground II

The Anne Reid '72 Art Gallery opened the 2009-10 season with an exhibit of "field paintings" by Bill Hardy, director of the Holbrook Arts Center at Millbrook School.
Mr. Hardy, the Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Chair in the Arts at Millbrook, holds a master’s degree from San Diego State University. His work is featured in exhibits throughout California, New York, Connecticut and Minnesota. “…I combine the spontaneity of the moment with the beauty of listening, pondering, and painting,” he said. “I feel the paintings become a breaking ground.”

Gallery Director Jody Erdman, a PDS alumna, is eager to share Mr. Hardy’s work with students and the surrounding community. “We are fortunate to have sixteen of Mr. Hardy's beautiful, color field paintings; inspired by interior and exterior landscapes in Dutchess County, the Berkshires and hidden spots in Connecticut,” she said. “His layering of color explodes off the canvas in elegant combinations and harmonies resulting in a series of paintings that you must see.”

“Breaking Ground II” continues a series originated some 20 years ago. With these three-square canvases, Mr. Hardy aspires to “create a tension that was equal on all sides.” While viewers may initially see his work as “large blocks of primary color” Mr. Hardy hopes that on closer examination, “they become a field in which numerous colors exist.”

24/7 access: The Clay Studio of Philadelphia
“24/7 access,” was curated by PDS advanced ceramics students under the supervision of ceramics teacher Monika Jaeckle. Students played a key role in this exhibition, visiting the studio to select works for display, helping install the show and hosting a dinner for participating artists. Artists whose work was featured range in age from mid-20s to early 80s, including Marjorie Robbins, Rivkah Walton, Carole Sivin, Diane Marimow, Kay Gering, Lynne Dorman, Andrew Eastwood, Shannon Donovan, Cheryl Hendershott and Michael Clemmons. Each artist is a member of The Associate Artist program of The Clay Studio, developed in the mid-1980s to meet the needs of advanced students who wanted additional studio space and time to develop their work by providing affordable studio space. Housed on the entire second floor of The Clay Studio, the program now provides space to 40 individuals who have 24-hour, seven-day-a-week access to the space. For more information about The Clay Studio, please visit www.theclaystudio.org

Adam Stanforth
PDS was proud to open the 2008-09 gallery season with "Journey Repose," an installation by Adam Stanforth, a Brooklyn artist was featured on the front cover of The New York Times Arts section.
Jody Erdman, a PDS alumnus and director of the Gallery, first encountered Mr. Stanforth's work in the artist's gallery in the Chelsea section of New York City. "The artist carefully reconfigures his paintings into large-grid installations," she said. "I was impressed with his spontaneous gestures and the freshness of his seemly free strokes. I am thrilled that he will be sharing his work with our students." Mr. Stanforth, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, works on individual panels of masonite and other materials covered with wet paint the he pours, blows and moves to evolve into interpretive abstract forms. He describes his work as "metaphorical petri dishes of macro/microscopic bodies of matter." "The process becomes more meditative when the panels are combined with others to form worlds of relationships," he said. "Then the paintings are given freedom and life by being assembled on a wooden structure spanning the space."

China's Qing Dynasty
Princeton Day School displayed decorative arts from China's Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), as well as a collection of bound foot shoes and accessories gathered by PDS parents

The exhibit, beautiful for its artistry alone, also enhanced ongoing classroom explorations of Asian culture and language at PDS. Text accompanying the pieces on display detailed not only the function of the items but also the history and symbolism of the decoration. In addition, Ms. de la Houssaye gave gallery talks to students from primary, middle and high school grades.

Nibbling the White Cube
Princeton Day School invited the public to explore the definition and role of “art” in a new exhibit by a group of local artists dedicated to expanding concepts in the visual arts.

“Nibbling the White Cube,” curated by MOVIS, a group of Princeton artists including PDS art teacher Jerry Hirniak, features fabric, music, photography, sculpture, film projection and drawing with string and tape.

The “white cube” of course is the gallery space itself, described by Brian O’Doherty as a space “constructed along laws as rigorous as those for building a medieval church. The outside world must not come in, so windows are usually sealed off. Walls are painted white. The ceiling becomes the source of light….The art is free ‘to take on its own life’… untouched by time and its vicissitudes.” Participating artists say they have created work “that cannot be tamed and relegated to predictable locations within the neat confines of the Gallery…. Each artwork seems to be passing through the gallery on its way from and to a place marked by the contingencies of real space and time.”Members of the MOVISs group have exhibited widely throughout the United States and internationally and their work is included in many museum collections. Artists participating in the PDS exhibition include Berendina Buist, Susan Hockaday, Eve Ingalls, Jerry Hirniak, Rita Z. Asch, Frank Magalhaes, Margaret Kennard Johnson, Marsha Levin-Rojer and John Goodyear.

Raúl Colón
Princeton Day School was proud to welcome commercial artist and illustator Raúl Colón, who shared his intricate illustrations while working with students of all ages.

Architecture: Deceptively Simple
The Anne Reid '72 Art Gallery showcased work by current PDS architecture students in “Architecture: Deceptively Simple” on display through March 6.

The exhibit, curated by PDS Architecture Teacher and Arts Department Chair David Burkett, includes current work by Upper School students, such as three-dimensional narrative sculptures and models. Exhibits showcase the journey students make as they move from beginner to independent study of architecture and design.

The show’s title reflects how an assignment that may sound simple --- what happens when a square impacts another shape? --- requires a mastery of sophisticated skills, Mr. Burkett said.

In the PDS architecture studio, students learn to understand the built environment, produce architecture through reflection and invention and communicate ideas through a wide range of media.
“Exploring complex concepts, my students develop new ways to communicate powerful images and ideas,” Mr. Burkett said. “This is a process.”