Here is an example of last years press release and the short statements I need from everyone:
For Immediate Release: Contact: Richard Pierce
DATE 212.998.6796
01/29/09 richard.pierce@nyu.edu
**Media are invited to attend the opening reception on Thursday, February 19th from 6-8p.m.**
WORKS BY 10 GRADUATING SENIORS IN
THE DEPARTMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING
AT THE TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS TO GO ON VIEW
Second of 4 Shows Featuring Thesis Projects from the Class of 2009 Opens February 19th
An exhibition featuring a wide variety of works in photography, digital imaging, and multimedia, including more than 120 photographs, two multimedia works and an installation piece by 10 graduating seniors from the class of 2009 in the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television will open February 19th. It will remain on view at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts through March 14th, 2009.
Entitled, SHOW II, the show is the second in a series of four exhibitions that will eventually showcase the work of the entire graduating class in a BFA exhibition. It is installed in Gulf + Western Gallery (rear lobby) and the 8th Floor Gallery at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place). Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays, and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. Photo identification is required for access to the building. For further information, call 212.998.1930 or visit www.photo.tisch.nyu.edu.
The exhibition features artists: Melanie Glass’ series Pendleton, Oregon documents one of the last remaining wild wild west rodeos in the United States, Rikki Gunton's project, a combination of photographs and audio interviews, focuses on a homeless community in Washington Square Park, Ani Kington's photographs portray her experiences in Ecuador, a country undergoing various transitions, Rachel Klein photographs light as subject, fixing ephemeral moments from our everyday surroundings for reexamination, Kelly Kollar's video and stills depict the individual experiences and shared existence of a Brooklyn based immigrant and refugee community from the war torn region of Darfur, Sudan, Collin LaFleche's series HAUPTSTADT is a collection of images taken during a summer spent in Germany and Eastern Europe, and explores themes of banality, commercialism, sexuality, and the body, Jackie Munro's photographs of hotel rooms after people check out but before they were cleaned document her path through the traces of the journeys of strangers, Yuta Nakajima's photographs document ordinary objects that we often overlook, or forget about with time, Inspired by Marcel Proust's writings, Damien Saatdjian's photographs evoke time and memory, Foscusing on the dilemma of living in paradise, Zachary Susskind pursues scenes where the tension between potential and indulgence, creativity and stagnation, life and wasted life seem to define the current essence and dynamic of today's Los Angeles.
