The Samuel Dorsky Museum

Much has been written about Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious, a belief that all humans share a collective ancestral knowledge and imagery described as archetypes.

After living through 2020, it seems that artists have pinpointed new beliefs held within the collective unconscious.

The Dorsky Museum organized the exhibit “Collective Consciousness” inviting guest curator Karlyn Benson to select new work from SUNY New Paltz art faculty. Like nearly everyone, during 2020 the art faculty needed to reinvent how they could continue the semester for the students, while they also continued with their own art practice. This exhibit shows that even as they all were forced to work in isolation, their recent work references the collective concerns about urgent matters such as climate change and societal disruption through technology. 

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