"Dissolving Boundaries," the current exhibition at Mount Saint Mary College's CMA Gallery, is open to the public through Wednesday, August 24.
Visitors are welcome Monday through Friday during normal business hours, or by appointment. The gallery is located on the first floor of Aquinas Hall on campus, 330 Powell Ave., Newburgh, N.Y. Email cma-gallery@msmc.edu for more information.
This dynamic exhibition, featuring printmaking, paper folding, video, drawing, mixed media, and more, showcases the work of local artists Vernon M. Byron and Dharman Abdullah. Byron and Abdullah create work that activates a variety of perceptual pathways, evoking the interconnectivity of space, time, and place.
The aim of "Dissolving Boundaries" is to deepen the connections between the Mount and the City of Newburgh through the presentation of media that is sourced, developed, and informed by the experience of living and working in Newburgh.
In addition, a talk featuring the artists will be held on Thursday, April 7 at 4 p.m. in the Kaplan Family Library on the Mount campus. More information will be released about this talk in the coming weeks.
The CMA gallery was created in 2019 as a professional artist space to exhibit media picked by Mount faculty from among the rising population of artists who live and work in Newburgh, Beacon, and throughout the Hudson Valley.
The Mount's CADM programs encompass the study of advertising and public relations, digital media production, graphic design, and journalism. CADM also offers minors in each of these disciplines, as well as in art and film studies. Housed in the Mount's Division of Arts and Letters, CADM programs prepare students for both traditional and emerging professions.
CADM recently added a major in Visual Communication-Graphic Design. Students in this program study visual communication with an emphasis on conceptual problem-solving and technical proficiency.
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