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Building and Designing Intimacy

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Two fifth-year architects have teamed up to display their very different artworks in Sibley’s Hartell gallery. Both artists explore the way their objects interact with the viewer’s body: physically and culturally provoking the viewer to imagine the contours of what one chooses to embrace and what one chooses to give up. Like the image of Rubin’s face/vase (replaced by the artists’ profiles), which they display on their lone curatorial placard, absence always hugs and contains the material as its unacknowledged background.

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Under the Eyes Of the Gods

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They’ve had their breasts painted green by architecture students. They’ve been stolen by miscreant frat boys. They’ve been rolled down Libe Slope on Slope Day and they’ve weathered the storms of misuse and assault.

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Students Share Views on Sculpture

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Often referred to as “the wigwams across from Collegetown Bagels,” Patrick Dougherty’s arboreal art installation has students talking. And students seem to be of mixed opinion.

The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) commissioned Dougherty to create the installation, which he titled “Half a Dozen of the Other.” He is the first of five artists to participate in the CCA’s “5 Years/5 Contemporary Installations.”