SUNY Geneseo Galleries
Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery and Lockhart Gallery
TITLE: Gun Violence in America: Stephen McKenzie
DATE: April 3 – Mary 4, 2019
LOCATION: Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, SUNY Geneseo
OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, April 3 at 5 p.m.
GALLERY TALK: Stephen McKenzie at 5:30 p.m.
Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery is pleased to announcement its exhibit “Gun Violence in American” by Stephen McKenzie. McKenzie’s exhibit of large-scale prints combines text and image to tell a narrative of policy gone wrong. Policy that does not seem to have a hard solution, policy
developed around the misconception of the meaning of the Second Amendment. The solution, that is, to enact real change to gun laws, and limiting the impact of the National Rifle Association appears to be at an impasse no matter how many children, teenagers, or adults are
murdered.
Stephen McKenzie’s work has focused on gun violence for the past 10 years. For his work he “uses statistics to chronicle the violence … The story of each survivor of those grim statistics is one of coping and living with a completely changed reality…” This is McKenzie’s method of
activism chronicling this form of terrorism and hoping for a shift, a change, in federal and state policy that seeks life.
All exhibits are free and open to the public. We look forward to your visit to the gallery. Gallery hours are Wednesday and Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m.
For more information contact either Lori Houtz at 585-245-5841 or Cynthia Hawkins at 585-245-5813
Exhibition Programming
Wed., April 3 from 5 – 7 p.m: Exhibition Opening
Wed., April 3 at 5:30 p.m: Artist Talk: Gun Violence in America, Stephen McKenzie, Artist and printmaker
Wed., April 3 at 6:15: Art Historian Talk: Cuban-American Art and Cultural Identity, Prof. Lynette Bosch-Burroughs
Wed., April 10 at 2:30 p.m: Manifesto, Michael Oberg, Prof. of History
Wed., April 17: GREAT DAY
Wed., April 24 at 11:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m: Exercises for the Quiet Eye, Annie Storr, PhD
Mon., May 2 at 6:00 p.m: Evie Shockley’s semiautomatic: Poems That Break the Cycle, TBA, Lytton Smith, Assoc. Prof. of English
