ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY.- Affinities: Painting in Abstraction, features recent work by artists including Carrie Moyer, Suzanne McClelland, Amy Sillman, Rebecca Morris, Dona Nelson, Laurel Sparks, Jutta Koether, and Jacqueline Humphries. The artists suggest a trajectory that redefines, empowers, and interrogates definitions of abstract painting. The exhibition inherently posits vital questions about the artists' relationships, practices, processes, methodologies, history, and the painter's connections with one another are all aspects of this inquiry. Curator: Kate Meehan McNamara.

This spring CCS Bard presents a series of twelve exhibitions at the CCS Galleries, curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies. The exhibitions are the culmination of the students' work for the master's degree. The CCS Bard Galleries are open Wednesdays through Sundays, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m., on the Bard College campus. All the exhibitions and related programs are free and open to the public. Transportation to and from New York City for the exhibition openings—March 11, April 15, and May 13—is available, without charge, via a chartered bus.

The first group of four exhibitions is on view from Sunday, March 11, through Sunday, March 25. Now You See It, curated by Ryan Doherty, features three artists, Susan Hiller, Zoe Beloff, and Jennifer Bornstein, who employ obsolete technologies to conjure up our desire for the supernatural. Affinities: Painting in Abstraction, curated by Kate Meehan McNamara, highlights recent works by eight painters who are expanding the practices of abstraction. We Love Cinema, curated by �zkan Cang�ven, explores how artists from different parts of the world appropriate cinema to create new video work. Temporarily Disconnected, curated by Ruba Katrib, features video works by artists who enter into or fabricate situations brimming with social anxieties and cultural tensions. The opening reception takes place on Sunday, March 11, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

The second group of three exhibitions is on view from Sunday, April 15, through Sunday, April 29. In Someone Else's Skin, curated by Rebeca Noriega-Costas, examines how artists disclose the ways social and political violence manipulate and transform individuals in unexpected ways. Facts on the Ground, curated by Amy Owen, presents four projects by Bernard Khoury, Sarah Oppenheimer, Sean Snyder, and the Spatial Information Design Lab, that retool social, political, and historical information systems of the city. Stutter and Twitch, curated by Chen Tamir, uses video and photographic works that revel in the suspension of time. The opening reception takes place on Sunday, April 15, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

The third and final group of five exhibitions is on view from Sunday, May 13, through Sunday, May 27. Curated by Emily Zimmeran, from rest to rest presents four artists who work with digital media to call attention to our mobile presence in space. Novel Readings, curated by Florencia Malbr�n, includes works by Glenn Ligon, Jorge Macchi, and Ernesto Neto, which are presented in association with novels and literary criticism, to raise questions about cultural contexts. Repeat Performances: Roni Horn and Ragnar Kjartansson , curated by Mark�s Th�r Andr�sson, includes a series of portraits and an incessant performance, each questioning identity and difference. Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Intersubjectivity in Parallax, curated by Max Hern�ndez Calvo, presents work by five artists who are close friends—Jos� Miyashiro, Enrique La Cruz, Diego Lama, Mar�a Elena Alvarado, and Lara Alc�ntara—that expresses the obsessions of the artists' own intersubjective relations. Come On Pilgrim: A 110-mile Exhibition, curated by Laura Mott, is a map and audio companion that leads visitors to six commissioned projects between New York City and CCS Bard.

The graduate program at CCS Bard is the preeminent program of its kind in the United States, dedicated to training curators and critics of contemporary art. The curriculum is specifically designed to deepen students' understanding of the intellectual and practical tasks of curating exhibitions of contemporary art, particularly in the complex social and cultural situations of present-day urban arts institutions. With state-of-the-art galleries, an extensive library and curatorial archive, and access to the remarkable Marieluise Hessel Collection of more than 1,700 works, CCS students have a unique opportunity to gain both intellectual grounding and actual experience within a museum.