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Motion: An Exhibition of Essentialist Film and Video

Date
1999

Motion: An Exhibition of Essentialist Film and Video. The 58th Exhibition of Central New York Artists exhibition at Munson Williams Proctor Institute. Exhibition Guest Curator: John Knecht.

Mary Murray, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Videotapes range from late 1970s through 1980s and were created at the Experimental Television Center; artists represented were Peer Bode, Matthew Schlanger, Connie Coleman, Alan Powell. Installation works by Daniella Dooling, Ralph Hocking, Peter HUtton, Ken Jacobs, Carol Kinne, Heidi Kumao, Les Leveque, Neil Zusman.

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Motion: An Exhibition of Essentialist Film and Video was the 58th Exhibition of Central New York Artists at the Munson Williams Proctor Institute; Exhibition Guest Curator was John Knecht and Mary Murray served as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Videotapes date from the late 1970s through the 1980s and were created at the Experimental Television Center; artists represented include Peer Bode, Matthew Schlanger, Connie Coleman and Alan Powell, and installation works were by Daniella Dooling, Ralph Hocking, Peter HUtton, Ken Jacobs, Carol Kinne, Heidi Kumao, Les Leveque and Neil Zusman.

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