The show “As I Saw Them” will feature 25 portraits painted over the past five years.

Eppridge, a graduate of The College of New Rochelle, studied as an undergraduate under the legendary Professors Ernest and Florence Thompson, co-founders of the Art Department at CNR. She went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from The Catholic University of America and to have her own career as a teacher of art at all levels, including teaching at The College of New Rochelle.

As a painter, calligrapher, and graphic artist, she has undertaken post-graduate study at Pratt Institute, the School of Visual Arts, the Art Students League as well as at Silvermine School of Art and with the Greenwich Art Society Studio School. She is an active member of the Greenwich Art Society and of the Art Society of Old Greenwich.

Two receptions are scheduled for this exhibit: June 1, from 3 to 5 p.m., and June 8, from 3 to 5 p.m. The Mooney Center Gallery is free and open to the public.

The show, which opened April 23, runs through June 23, and presents the work of artists who address notions of history on both individual and societal levels.

The artists are Suyeon Na, Lynn Cazabon, Victoria Crayhon, Jennifer Crupi, Cara DeAngelis, Dean Landry, Daniel Ludlow, So Yoon Lym, Kamal Al Mansour, and Joe Meiser.

The special event was attended by more than 75 faculty members, staff, and students from all six of the School of New Resources campuses. The reception and discussion that followed were videotaped by a film crew from BronxNet News.

Washington and Yanagawa were interviewed extensively by a reporter from the cable network. School of New Resources Dean Darryl Jones, JOC Campus Director Samuel Lilly, and Castle Gallery Director Katrina Rhein, as well as students attending the reception were also filmed by BronxNet News.

Washington said the project is inspired by the documentarian works of Jacob Riis, Gordon Parks, and Ruiko Yoshida. “Our aim is to explore and challenge the stigmas and stereotypes associated with blacks and Latinos in New York City’s public housing community,” Washington said.

Beginning in 2009, Washington and Yanagawa, both former residents of housing projects themselves, facilitated a series of candid interviews and photo shoots throughout New York City. With interviews and photographs of over 50 current and former residents, the artists aimed “to lift the ubiquitous cloak of darkness cast over the city’s housing projects,” Washington said.

The exhibit includes interviews and photos with notable former NYCHA residents such as Emmy Award-winning news reporter and Young Lords founder Felipe Luciano, seminal hiphop icon Afrika Bambaataa, acclaimed photographer Jamel Shabazz, and author/cultural critic/filmmaker Nelson George.

Following introductions by Dean Jones and a brief presentation of their work by Washington and Yanagawa, the artists answered a series of insightful questions from the students, many of whom live today in projects or are former residents.

The students compared and contrasted their own experiences, told stories of the living conditions in their neightborhood, and articulated why living in their communities was not the stereotype perceived by others. Many SNR students and former residents even today still call their NYCHA project home.

Learn more about the exhibit

Artwork was created during Intersession and Spring 2013 classes.

Artists:

• Pamela F. Gonzalez
• Elizabeth Youngs
• Janice Rose
• Regina Lagana
• Nichelle Murray
• Kristen O’Brien
• Erika Camilli
• Sarah Gray
• Kristen R. Porto
• Tzuriel Binyamin
• Bruce Waldman
• Kara Rose Rothschild
• Catherine Horan
• Terrie Bentley
• Susanne Stotsky

Informed by personal memories, cultural histories, fantastical myths, misleading advertising or propaganda, forgotten accomplishments and unacknowledged omissions, the artists rewrite or shed light on the familiar, foreign and overlooked, thus exposing the constructs behind behaviors and events that are often accepted with little argument. They magnify elements of human behavior spanning centuries for us to contemplate.

Artists: Suyeon Na, Lynn Cazabon, Victoria Crayhon, Jennifer Crupi, Cara DeAngelis, Dean Landry, Daniel Ludlow, So Yoon Lym, Kamal Al Mansour, and Joe Meiser.

Organizer: Katrina Rhein

The reception takes place Sunday, May 5, from 2 to 4 p.m., to coincide with The College of New Rochelle’s 41st annual Strawberry Festival. See photos from the reception.

The exhibit will be shown at the Gordon A. Parks Gallery, on the ground floor of the School of New Resources John Cardinal O’Connor Campus in the South Bronx, from February 23 to May 5.

Over the course of 12 months, the two collected stories and images through intimate interviews with former and current residents of New York City’s various housing projects. This exhibition includes several photographs, printed interview excerpts, and short-form essays.

Inspired by the documentary works of Jacob Riis, Gordon Parks, Ruiko Yoshida, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and Elvis Mitchell, Washington and Yanagawa explored the concept of second-class citizenship as applied to blacks and Latinos residing in New York City’s Housing Authority sites.

We The People interviews with and photographs of such notable former NYCHA residents as author, filmmaker, and cultural critic Nelson George; lauded photographer Jamel Shabazz; Young Lords co-founder, original Last Poets member and Emmy award-winning news reporter Felipe Luciano; venerable jazz musician and recording artist Olu Dara; author and Emmy award-winning filmmaker Dennis Watlington; hip-hop artist and music industry CEO Buckshot; hip-hop icon Afrika Bambaataa, and many more.

The objective of We The People is not to elicit pity or sympathy, according to the artists, “but to challenge popular thought concerning these neighborhoods. We The People is a testament to those who have weathered the storms from urban blight to urban renewal. Through these collected stories, a genuine document of the marginalized and the maligned emerges.”

See photos from the opening reception on February 23.

Trauma is based on the idea that artists are passionately involved in making the world a better place by raising awareness. The exhibit provides a venue for artists to explore recent events and those long-standing experiences that result in trauma, whether they be natural disasters or man-made events.

The participating artists are:

• Joanne Beaubrun
• Chitralekha Dass
• Mary O’Connor English
• Nancy Landy
• Patricia H. Quinn
• Tricia C. Riebesehl
• Susan Rissier-Gazza
• Janice Rose
• Rosemary Ryan
• Caren Sacks
• Patricia St. John
• Penelope W. Ventura
• Saudia Wadud
• Robert Irvin Wolf

A closing reception will be held Saturday, March 16, from noon to 2 p.m. For more information, call (914) 654-5280 or email pstjohn@cnr.edu.

The exhibit, a collaboration between journalist Rico Washington and photographer Shino Yanagawa that, via interviews and images, seeks to debunk the myths around the people who live in the New York City Housing Authority’s buildings.

Learn more about the project here. It will be on display through May 5.

The show runs from January 29 through March 31, 2013.

Artists: Will Corwin, Susan D’Amato, Seth Fairweather, Gwen Hardie, Travis Head, Caitlin Masley, Laura Moriarty, Gina Occhiogrosso and Benedict Oddi

Organizer: Katrina Rhein

Reception: Sunday, February 3, from 2 to 4 p.m.

See photos from the opening reception

The New York Times reviewed the show on March 1:

What connects all the works in “Terra Incognita,” which include sculpture, drawings, paintings and a mixed-media piece by the artist Seth Fairweather, of Coral Gables, Fla., is that “what you’re seeing are these strange places that have familiar elements,” said Katrina Rhein, the gallery director and organizer of the show.

“The familiar is either so closely cropped or presented in such a unique way that it becomes unfamiliar,” Ms. Rhein said.

Monica Alvarez’s paintings unveil the essence of banal objects, bringing them to life on five-by-five inch squares. Her artwork explores the little things that we pass over each and every day and the beauty these simple objects hold. Each painting unveils a different world for humdrum items that in turn bring new meaning.

Cera Alber’s installation transforms the second floor South Bridge Gallery and literally drops you into an unveiled world of mysticism and wonder. Through the use of branches that become pathways, viewers take a journey into the realm of the unknown; each taking a key to open their own psychic door to new unexplored places.

Cera Alber & Monica Alvarez: Senior Exhibition

 Mooney Center Bridge Gallery, 2^nd Floor

 January 27- February 17, 2013