Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery

Located within the School of Art+Design, the Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery gives students the opportunity to exhibit their work in a professional context alongside their daily classroom experience. In addition to student work, gallery programming focuses on emerging artists, Art+Design alumni, and current faculty.

Gallery Hours: T - F, 10 am – 5 pm

Current Exhibitions

SR Lejeune: tilt
Windgate Artist-in-Residence
January 21 - February 18, 2026

What Comes From Clouds
MFA Thesis Exhibition 1
March 4 - 18, 2026
Christopher Borgia, Tanisha D’souza, Adrian Gray

Opening Reception: March 11, 6 pm

MFA Thesis Exhibition 2
April 8 - 17, 2026
Nyssa Juneau, Bea Kaufman, Christian Wilbur

Opening Reception: April 8, 6 pm

MFA Thesis Exhibition 3
April 21 - 30, 2026
Gabriella Mazza, Yuka Nakamura, Nena Smith, Animus Zhang

Opening Reception: April 22, 6 pm

Senior Thesis Exhibition
May 6 - 13, 2026

MFA Group Show, PS122 Gallery
May 7 - 16, 2026

Recent Exhibitions

Nontsikelelo Mutiti: Friend of My Mind
Clare Koury: If You Can Read This Thank The Phoenicians
What Now?
Today: +0HRS, Tomorrow: +8:30HRS
Shoulder Season
Jessica Segall: Cavities
Time Trap: MFA Group Exhibition
Photography is _______.
Sarah Tortora: Book of Sand
Pressing Matter
2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Joyride
2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition
Presence: Six Sculptors
Andrew Ross: Cursed Leadership

Exhibition History

Jessica Segall: Cavities
Windgate Artist-in-Residence
January 22 - February 12, 2025

Hostile and threatened landscapes are the sites for Jessica’s work. Through queer ecology, she examines the vulnerability of these environments and the risk inherent in engaging with them.

Shoulder Season
February 19 - March 19, 2025

Shoulder Season explores the art of transition—adjusting, preparing, and lifting together—as we celebrate the remarkable talent of our junior faculty and their visible connection to teaching, making, and living as artists, educators, and citizens.

Georgina Arroyo, Elizabeth Flood, Katie Murray, Adam Pape, Janine Polak, Chuck Routhier, Tova Snyder, Amanda Thackray, Virginia Wagner, Dave Walsh, David Wilson, Lachell Workman

Today: +0HRS, Tomorrow: +8:30HRS
April 8 - 22, 2025
Reception: April 9, 6 pm

Jody Rasch, Frankie Bademci, Wendy Lipp, Samira Homayouni

What Now?
2025 Senior Thesis Exhibition
May 7 - 14, 2025
Reception: May 10, 1 - 3 pm

Today: +0HRS, Tomorrow: +8:30HRS
MFA Thesis @ PS122 Gallery
May 9 - 18, 2025
Reception: May 9, 6 pm

Jody Rasch, Frankie Bademci, Wendy Lipp, Samira Homayouni

Clare Koury: If You Can Read This Thank The Phoenicians
Windgate Artist-in-Residence
August 27 - September 18, 2025

The task of the translator is tricky and threefold: translation, interpretation and transmission. One must decipher
meaning in context and through time, and minimize potentials for information loss in its delivery. At times legibility
is at odds with fidelity, and conversion degrades resolution of meaning. There is no lossless transfer and every
translation betrays the bias of interpretation.

X is a letter but also a question, an unknown variable that bears the treasure lost to time or deliberate obfuscation.
The problem of perception is simple: the more certain you are of what’s in front of you, the harder it is to see
anything else.

Put plainly, Seek and you shall find.

Nontsikelelo Mutiti: Friend of My Mind
October 8 - November 5, 2025

The Graphic Design department is delighted to welcome back Nontsikelelo Mutiti, celebrated artist, designer, and former Purchase faculty member, for her exhibition Friend of My Mind at the Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery.

Mutiti, who taught in the New Media program at Purchase from 2012 to 2017, has since become an influential figure in contemporary art and design. Currently the Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art, her practice moves across media—print, typography, moving image, installation, and objects—bringing together traditions, archives, and community engagement.

Her work frequently revisits themes of African hair braiding as a living archive, a cultural practice, and a form of resistance, weaving together histories of displacement, belonging, and care. Friend of My Mind reflects this approach, inviting us to engage with memory, form, and social connection in urgent and generative ways.

Safe Keeping: MFA Group Exhibition
November 19 - December 10, 2025

Time Trap
MFA Group Exhibition
November 20 - December 11, 2025

Photography is _______.
September 18 - November 22, 2024

Sarah Tortora: Book of Sand
August 28 - September 25, 2024

Pressing Matter
2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 3 - May 19, 2024

Joyride
2024 Senior Thesis Exhibition
May 8 - 15, 2024

Presence: Six Sculptors
February 28 - March 20, 2024

Andrew Ross: Cursed Leadership
Windgate Artist-in-Residence
January 24 - February 14, 2024

Full Bleed
MFA Group Exhibition
November 25 - December 15, 2023

pull, cut, thread, mold, collage
October 11 - November 8, 2023

Jesus Benavente: There is beauty, pero no vemos
Windgate Artist-in-Residence
August 30 - September 27, 2023

Final Form: Showing The Finest Undergrads
2023 Senior Thesis Exhibition
May 2023

Silvering
2023 Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition
March 15 - May 22, 2024

Letha Wilson: Ground Spell
Windgate Artist-in-Residence
January 22 - February 22, 2023

Dig if You Will
MFA Group Exhibition
November 30 - December 16, 2022

Tamar Ettun: How To Trap A Demon
Windgate Artist-in-Residence
October 5 - November 6, 2022

Institutional Memory
Art+Design Faculty and Staff Group Exhibition
August 31 - September 23, 2022

No Sign of Land
2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition
March 16 - 31, 2022

In with the Old
Five Years of Project Art Distribution
March 17 - April 9, 2022

i can’t swim
Van Tran Nguyen, Windgate Artist-in-Residence
February 9 - March 9, 2022

No Wrong Moves
MFA Group Exhibition
December 1 - 18, 2021

Where I End, We Begin
Angela Dufresne & Mala Iqbal
October 21 - November 17, 2021

SV Randall: If the Husk is Habitable
Windgate Artist-in-Residence
September 1 - 22, 2021

Weight of the Air
2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition
May 14 - 23, 2021

Unmute Yourselves
2021 Senior Thesis Exhibition
May 8 - 16, 2021

dis/entangled
2021 Media Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition

DeCarlo Logan: Sundown: Revolution
February 26 - March 12, 2021

2020

Keep Me Company
MFA Group Exhibition
November 11 - 23, 2020

2020 Views: Seeing Through Uncertainty
September 23 - November 4, 2020

Shadows For Sale
2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition
August 9 - September 11, 2020

Activated
2021 Media Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition
March 11 - 20, 2020

Brian Reid: Root 2 Design: A Starting Point
Windgate Artist-in-Residence
February 19 - March 4, 2020

Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels: Myths of Perpetual Growth
Windgate Artist-in-Residence
January 22 - February 14, 2020

HOURS

T - F : 10 am – 5 pm

ADMISSION

The Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery is free and open to the public.

Student Galleries

1019A, Triangle, Catwalk, Parallels, Rectangle, Kiosk, and Cases Galleries are exhibition spaces dedicated to presenting solo and group exhibitions of works by students from the School of Art+Design.

For more information, contact:

Gregory Wharmby
Curatorial Manager
gregory.wharmby@purchase.edu
Visual Arts Building, Room 1004

Upcoming:

Mar 3

Lecture by Kerry Downey

Time: 5:00pm

Each semester, weekly visiting artist lectures host noted artists, curators, critics, and historians to share their perspectives, expertise, and current work, and to give insight into contemporary issues facing artists and designers.
Mar 5

Conscription Engine: Europe’s Twink Death by Marcin Ratajczyk

Time: 12:30pm

In this presentation, Marcin Ratajczyk will discuss Conscription Engine, an AI-driven installation that examines how rising fears of militarization in Europe draw people into forms of voluntary self-objectification.

The conversation will be moderated by Shaka McGlotten, Professor of Media Studies.

Organized as part of the Information Aesthetics course by Hakan Topal, Professor of New Media and Art+Design.

Bio

Marcin Ratajczyk (b. 2002, Poznań, Poland) is a media artist based in Vienna. He studies Digital Arts under UBERMORGEN at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and is a co-founder of Malpractice, a Polish–Austrian–Italian collective exploring AI as a collaborator in posthuman artistic processes. Through Malpractice, his work has been presented at institutions such as Francisco Carolinum Linz, House of Electronic Arts Basel, Digital Art Mile at Art Basel, and Y3 Pavilion Wuhan, as well as at the 38th Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg. His practice investigates the aesthetics of digital intimacy, performative systems, and the emotional residues of algorithmic life.

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