You could call it a golden age at Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Now celebrating its 35th reunion, the Class of 1965 includes Alan Saret, whose art was part of the Whitney Museum of Art's recent American Century exhibition; Joel Perlman, who has a sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection; and Peter Rosen, whose documentary won an award at Cannes.
A special exhibit of the work of Perlman, Saret, Rosen and eight others will take place today through Saturday, June 8-10, in the Hartell Gallery in Sibley Hall, in Tjaden Hall's gallery and in the lobby of the Johnson Museum. (See calendar, Page 12.) Organized by Maddy Handler, B.S. '65, and Phil Handler '64, M.Arch. '65, the exhibit is titled "AA&P: Cornell's Catalyst for Creativity." Maddy secured a Cornell Alumni Federation grant, while Phil, whose business, Fly on the Wall Productions, produces construction-related video, videotaped the exhibitors.
On Friday, June 9, at 1 p.m. 10 of the exhibitors will take part in a symposium in 157 East Sibley Hall. The video produced by Phil Handler of the exhibitors discussing their work will be screened continuously in the galleries.
The exhibitors are as follows:
Bruce Abbey is dean of the Architecture School at Syracuse University. His professional work includes a library at the University of Pennsylvania's hospital.
Dell Worn Mitchell's Boston-based firm specializes in classically designed luxury homes and interiors and contemporary offices. One residential project appeared on the cover of August 1999 House and Garden.
Brad Perkins heads Perkins Eastman Architects, a New York City-based international architectural design firm, and teaches at the Harvard Design School.
Joel Perlman is a sculptor whose geometric works of welded metal and cast bronze are part of the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Whitney Museum in New York City. In 1990 Cornell's Johnson Museum mounted an exhibition featuring 28 pieces of his work, and a sculpture of his is adjacent to the Field House. Perlman teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Peter Rosen is a filmmaker whose award-winning documentary Bright College Years was named best first-feature film at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. His documentary about an international piano competition won Directors Guild of America and prime-time Emmy awards.
Alan Saret is an artist and sculptor who rose to fame while still in his 20s. In 1975 his teepee-sized wire mesh shelter, Ghosthouse, was installed in Art Park near Buffalo. In 1990 a retrospective of 50 Saret works at New York City's P.S. 1 Museum, was hailed in The New York Times, and in 1992 Saret designed the mosaic tile floor in Pittsburgh airport's main terminal.
Jon Stoumen runs his own architecture practice in Sonoma Valley, Calif. He and his wife, O'Malley, invented an inflatable, portable solar water heater, CookSack, that was a semifinalist in the Hammacher Schlemmer 1999 Search for Invention Contest.
Other exhibitors are artist and writer Peter Barton; astrologer Tad Mann; sculptor and solar home designer Jim "Blue" Minges; and Boston architect and planner Warren Schwartz.
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