Exhibition
Location
Passage between Mui Ho Fine Arts Library and the L. P. Kwee Studios
Contact
Department of Art
(607) 255-6730
Abstract
This inaugural two-part exhibition at the Crystal Palace will feature the work of faculty and staff from the Art Department who responded to an open call:
- Kyle Bellucci Johanson
- Matt Bollinger
- Mark Anthony Brown, Jr.
- Oscar Rene Cornejo
- Eric Hibit
- Jen de los Reyes
- Lou Fuchs
- Julianne Hunter
- Devon Jenkins
- Carla Liesching
- Joanna Malinowska
- Leeza Meksin
- Elisabeth Meyer
- Cora Moss
- Keith Obadike
- Carl Ostendarp
- Maria Park
- Paul Ramírez Jonas
- Jackie Riccio
- Paulina Velázquez Solís
For the second part of the show, each exhibitor will invite someone from AAP to take over their space. Each space has its own key, which will be passed from person to person.
The Crystal Palace is a temporary exhibition space composed of cabinets made from the postal boxes that were formerly located in the basement of Sibley. It is inspired by the cabinets of curiosities (Wunderkammer) of the sixteenth century—precursors to museums—and by the Crystal Palace that housed the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851, a precursor to World Expos.
Despite their fraught relationship to colonialism and empire, these are some of the roots of our current ideas of exhibitions. They emphasized group participation; representation through images, objects, and artifacts; and the exchange of ideas. Formally, they also favored transparency and the use of glass.
This first exhibition will run from January 22 to February 12, 2026, and it will be located in the passage between the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library in Rand Hall and the L. P. Kwee Studios.
