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LI PULSE: April's Must-See Art Exhibits
The Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University will feature the year’s best work from graduating art students in two separate April shows. SUM: 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition opens the month with the work of five graduating Master of Fine Arts students ... read more
Video – SUM: 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Stony Brook University’s graduating Master of Fine Arts students discuss their work on view in SUM: 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts. Ye-seul Choi, Heather M. Cruce, Myda El-Maghrabi, Victoria Febrer ... read more
SBU HAPPENINGS: Campus Art Crawl Kicks off MFA Student Exhibit at Zuccaire Gallery
New works of art by five graduate students will be on display at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery in the Staller Center from Tuesday, March 22, through Saturday, April 9. The start of ... read more
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Things to Do on Long Island, Jan. 30 Through Feb. 7
STONY BROOK “Concrete Sound” (2015), cast concrete with pigment, by Audra Wolowiec, is in “EarFest 2016: Resonant Structures,” a group show through Feb. 6 at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center ... read more
ACES: “Skin Codes”
“What do potent issues like the Black Lives Matter movement, Syria, and climate change have in common? They have all trended on social media widely as hot topics and they have surfaced in Isabel Manlo’s paintings ... read more
STONY BROOK INDEPENDENT: “Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery Features Isabel Manalo’s ‘Skin Codes’”
The gallery’s latest exhibit, Isabel Manalo: “Skin Codes,” debuted Nov. 7, 2015 and will run until Dec. 12, 2015. Manalo uses her Filipino-American heritage as inspiration for her artwork, which address ideas of “power and identity as defined by race, ethnicity, geography and class,” according to an interview she did with Levitov ... read more
STONY BROOK INDEPENDENT: Isabel Manalo Brings Social Movements To SBU By ‘Skin Codes’
Hashtags. Emojis. Tattooed sleeves. These are everyday images in the the 21st century. But images of a Turkish toddler’s body washed up on a beach and black citizens being beaten by cops ... read more
THE STATESMAN: Artist Isabel Manalo marries art with social movement
During a walk-through of the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, one will find hanging canvases with neutral, earthy colors sprinkled with pre-colonial Filipino script. The script expresses a cultural part of who the artist is. These canvases are part of the Gallery’s most ... read more
Go Indie TV Features Zuccaire Gallery
The Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery’s VINTAGE FILM POSTERS exhibition is featured in this segment on Go Indie TV. An interview with Gallery Director Karen Levitov highlights some of the thirty-eight original posters from films such as West Side Story, Blue Velvet ... read more
Dan’s Papers Article on the Zuccaire Gallery
The Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at Stony Brook University presents dynamic professional, faculty and student exhibitions in its 5,000 square foot space in the Staller Center on the Stony Brook campus. We spoke with Director Karen Levitov about the gallery ... read more
Nobuho Nagasawa Featured in Sculpture Magazine
Stony Brook Professor of Art Nobuho Nagasawa is featured in the September 2015 issue of Sculpture magazine. A new installation of her work is included in the FACULTY EXHIBITION 2015, opening September 15 at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery ... read more
THE STATESMAN: Stony Brook Film Festival Features Vintage Film Posters Exhibit
A Vintage Film Posters exhibit in the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at the Staller Center for the Arts complemented the 20th annual Stony Brook Film Festival last week. The exhibit will be featured in the gallery until July 31 and has already welcomed 1,000 visitors ... read more
SB HAPPENINGS: Vintage Film Poster Exhibit at Zuccaire Gallery This July
In conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the Stony Brook Film Festival, the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery will present an exhibition of vintage film posters from July 7 to July 31. Printed film posters originated in the late 19th century ... read more
Senior Show 2015 Purchase Awards
Stony Brook University’s President Samuel Stanley has selected a series of six abstract landscape paintings by graduating art student Hyunjin Song for his annual Purchase Award. In addition to the President’s art acquisition, Provost Dennis Assanis and Dean of the ... read more
Fiona N. Cashell Wins Pieper Award
Graduating MFAstudent Fiona N. Cashell is this year’s winner of the prestigious Dorothy L. Pieper Award. This award is presented by Stony Brook University’s Graduate School to a student in the Master of Fine Arts program for an outstanding... read more
TV Interview with MFA Nicole Hixon
Watch graduating Master of Fine Arts student Nicole Hixon discuss her work, including The Nest, a sculptural installation made out of recycled bicycle inner tubes and steel radial tires. Part of the MFA Thesis Exhibition 2015 at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, The Nest invited... read more
Statesman Article on Form and Facture
Escaping from the dreary weather and leaving their dripping umbrellas at the door, dozens of Stony Brook students and community members entered into the ... read more
Stony Brook Independent Photo Essay on Form and Facture
Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery presented the reception for Form and Facture: New Painting and Sculpture from New York on November 1, 2014. The exhibition features...read more
New York Times listing of Form and Facture
STONY BROOK “Aequalis: Blueblood and Fusion” (2014), reclaimed house paint, wood and mixed media by Rebecca Murtaugh, is in “Form and Facture: New Painting and Sculpture From New York,” an exhibition of new large-scale abstract works by six artists at... read more
SBU Features Kate Gilmore
She smashes pots full of paint with a mallet, kicks through walls with a pair of high heels, and slams 40-pound plaster blocks into an oversized chest of drawers, letting the wet red paint inside bleed to the floor at the Zuccaire Gallery. Kate Gilmore’s art is loud, evocative and destructive — anything but bashful ...read more
SB Independent on Kate Gilmore
Modern artist Kate Gilmore climbs up, kicks through and slides across large-scale structures that resemble dangerous looking playgrounds. Gilmore presents herself with a challenge to overcome with her physical strength and brightly-colored paints ... read more
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Events on Long Island for Sept. 21-27, 2014
A guide to cultural and recreational events on Long Island. STONY BROOK A video still from “Built to Burst” (2011), a work featured in “Kate Gilmore: Top Drawer,” an exhibition with sculpture ... read more
Expect the Unexpected
Karen Levitov brings her vision to Stony Brook. Changes are happening at Stony Brook University’s Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery. This September, the new curator and director presents ...read more
Stony Brook Happenings article on Kate Gilmore
A new work commissioned by the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery will be presented in the exhibition “Kate Gilmore: Top Drawer” at the Gallery in the Staller Center from Saturday, September 6, through Saturday, October 18. A reception ... read more
Staller Center Welcomes Karen Levitov, Director and Curator of Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery
Alan Inkles, director of Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University, announced the appointment of Karen Levitov as art gallery director of the 5,000 square foot Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, formerly University Art Gallery, located on the first ... read more
On Rhonda Cooper's Retirement
Former University Art Gallery Director, Rhonda Cooper, is happily retired after thirty years with the gallery. The University Art Gallery presented the work of professional artists, generations of students, and esteemed faculty as a premier gallery under Rhonda Cooper’s tutelage ...read more
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