Current Exhibition
Of Place and Passage: Actions and Images by Stephan Koplowitz
Of Place and Passage: Actions and Images by Stephan Koplowitz explores the creative practice of internationally acclaimed choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Stephan Koplowitz, whose work transforms architecture, landscapes, and public spaces into sites of movement, perception, and encounter. Bringing together photography, video, installation, and archival materials, the exhibition reveals the interconnected processes through which performance is conceived, documented, and remembered.
Rather than treating photography and moving image as records of completed performances, Koplowitz uses them as integral choreographic tools—ways of observing, composing, and reimagining the relationships between bodies, place, and time. Across the exhibition, visitors encounter works that trace the evolution of ideas from intimate studies of movement to ambitious, large-scale performances unfolding across cities, waterways, and architectural landmarks.
Organized around themes of seeing, repetition, reflection, and the choreography of public space, Of Place and Passage invites audiences to experience movement beyond the stage. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to explore the breadth of Koplowitz’s artistic practice while considering how performance continues to shape the ways we perceive our built and natural environments. Through image, motion, and spatial experience, the exhibition encourages viewers to look closely, move thoughtfully, and discover choreography embedded within the everyday.
Events
Of Place and Passage: Actions and Images by Stephan Koplowitz
Of Place and Passage: Actions and Images by Stephan Koplowitz explores the creative practice of internationally acclaimed choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Stephan Koplowitz, whose work transforms architecture, landscapes, and public spaces into sites of movement, perception, and encounter. Bringing together photography, video, installation, and archival materials, the exhibition reveals the interconnected processes through which performance is conceived, documented, and remembered.
Rather than treating photography and moving image as records of completed performances, Koplowitz uses them as integral choreographic tools—ways of observing, composing, and reimagining the relationships between bodies, place, and time. Across the exhibition, visitors encounter works that trace the evolution of ideas from intimate studies of movement to ambitious, large-scale performances unfolding across cities, waterways, and architectural landmarks.
Organized around themes of seeing, repetition, reflection, and the choreography of public space, Of Place and Passage invites audiences to experience movement beyond the stage. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to explore the breadth of Koplowitz’s artistic practice while considering how performance continues to shape the ways we perceive our built and natural environments. Through image, motion, and spatial experience, the exhibition encourages viewers to look closely, move thoughtfully, and discover choreography embedded within the everyday.
Register for Of Place and Passage: Actions and Images by Stephan Koplowitz
Art of Ohm: SomaYoga with Catherine Schaeffer
Join the Sordoni Art Gallery to rest and recharge as this popular series returns. The Art of Ohm is a free program centered on mindfulness and restoration through Yoga and Meditation. All semester long, we invite you to slow down, reconnect, and restore balance in the Sordoni Art Gallery.
Please bring your own yoga mat, blankets, pillow, or bolsters and dress in light layers. This is a yoga-based practice.
Register (Sep 3, 5 PM) for Art of Ohm: SomaYoga with Catherine Schaeffer
Register (Sep 8, 5 PM) for Art of Ohm: SomaYoga with Catherine Schaeffer
Art in Context Lecture with Stephan Koplowitz
Please join us on Thurs., Sept. 17 at 5 pm for Art in Context Lecture with Stephan Koplowitz. A brief reception to follow with a free wine/beer bar.
Registration appreciated.
Stephan Koplowitz is an award-winning director, choreographer, and media artist whose work spans stage, film, and site-specific performance. His projects explore how people perceive place, site, and scale while examining the intersections of natural, social, and cultural ecologies. Since 1984, he has created 92 works and received 65 commissions. His numerous honors include a 2017 Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship, 2004 Alpert Award in the Arts, 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2000 “Bessie” Award for Sustained Achievement in Choreography. In 1996, his site-specific work Genesis Canyon won Time Out Magazine’s Best Dance Production award. Koplowitz served as Dean of CalArts’ Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance from 2006–2016. He is also the author of On Site: Methods for Creating Site-Specific Performance, published by Oxford University Press.
Register for Art in Context Lecture with Stephan Koplowitz
Art of Ohm: Meditation & Sound Bath with Tracy of Positive Vibes
Join the Sordoni Art Gallery to rest and recharge as this popular series returns. The Art of Ohm is a free program centered on mindfulness and restoration through Yoga and Meditation. All semester long, we invite you to slow down, reconnect, and restore balance in the Sordoni Art Gallery.
Please bring your own yoga mat, blankets, pillow, or bolsters and dress in light layers. This is a yoga-based practice.
Register (Sep 23, 5 PM) for Art of Ohm: Meditation & Sound Bath with Tracy of Positive Vibes
Register (Nov 17, 5 PM) for Art of Ohm: Meditation & Sound Bath with Tracy of Positive Vibes
Artventurers: Fragmentations
For this session, we will explore how to tell a story with smaller parts of a whole.
Sordoni Gallery Artventurers invites young explorers and their families to discover the world of art through creativity, curiosity, and hands-on fun. Each session offers a hands-on activity and storytime with the Osterhout Free Library. New Artventurers will receive a free sketchbook to collect their badges.
Register for Artventurers: Fragmentations
Art of Ohm: Sound Bath with Erin of Mind, Body, Soul Healing
Join the Sordoni Art Gallery to rest and recharge as this popular series returns. The Art of Ohm is a free program centered on mindfulness and restoration through Yoga and Meditation. All semester long, we invite you to slow down, reconnect, and restore balance in the Sordoni Art Gallery.
Please bring your own yoga mat, blankets, pillow, or bolsters and dress in light layers. This is a yoga-based practice.
Register (Sep 29, 5 PM) for Art of Ohm: Sound Bath with Erin of Mind, Body, Soul Healing
Register (Oct 8, 5 PM) for Art of Ohm: Sound Bath with Erin of Mind, Body, Soul Healing
Art in Context Film Screening of PINA
Space is limited. Registration is required.
In modern dance since the 1970s, few choreographers have had more influence in the medium than the late Pina Bausch. This film explores the life and work of this artist of movement as we see her company perform her most notable creations, in which basic elements like water, dirt, and even gravity take on otherworldly qualities in their dancing.