June 18 - November 13, 2016 - This exhibition draws inspiration from the traditions, rituals, and aesthetics associated with the region’s rich history of summer camps. From tent grounds to sleepaway camps to pleasure resorts, these sites conjure up the promise of new adventures, diversions, libidinal pursuits, and unfettered experimentation. Summer camp can be an escape, a state of mind, or a metaphor by which to confront emotional longings and dislocations of daily life. Moving freely across artistic disciplines and mediums, including performance, textiles, painting, drawing, installation, video, and photography, CAMPSITE promises to transform the museum space into a locus of visual pleasures and unexpected activities where playful exploration leads to more serious engagement with the larger world.
Dates:June 18, 2016 11:00 am to November 13, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:1 Hawk Drive (75 S. Manheim Boulevard for GPS) , New Paltz, New York 12561, United States
Phone: 845.257.3844
Contact:Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
Website:http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/hva16.html