Mount Saint Mary College’s CMA Gallery held the opening reception for its new video art exhibition, “Moving, Making, Moving: Embodied Ecologies” by Angela Lian, on Thursday, October 17.
The gallery is located on the first floor of Aquinas Hall on campus, 330 Powell Ave., Newburgh, N.Y. It will be open Monday through Friday during normal business hours, or by appointment, through Friday, December 6. Email cma-gallery@msmc.edu for more information.
“Moving Making Moving: Embodied Ecologies” takes its title from the artist’s undergraduate thesis, which presented movement and chance as a framework for creation. This exhibition takes the concept a step further to become a performative contemplation space. Across her video artwork, Lian combines dance and design to imbue themes like memory, chronic pain, and loneliness with tenderness and play.
The exhibition features ten video art pieces from 2021-2024, alongside “Scores for Dreaming,” a set of handwritten scores that pay homage to the relationships between the human and nonhuman consciousness of pain, memory, and ecology.
Lian is an artist and designer based in Beacon, N.Y. Her work ranges from conventional identities to illustration, printed matter, and video art. She is currently a graphic designer at BAGGU with a focus on stores. Across her personal work, Lian combines dance and design.
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 digital media production, graphic design, and journalism. CADM also offers minors in each of these disciplines, as well as in art and film studies. CADM programs prepare students for both traditional and emerging professions.