We are pleased to announce that works by Karl Wirsum will be featured in Infinite Spaces: Rediscovering PAFA's Permanent Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. On view from July 1 to September 9, 2018, the exhibition is co-curated by Laurel McLaughlin, Natalia Angeles Vieyra, and Mechella Yezernitskaya, and will feature new acquisitions and other permanent collection works.
For more information about the exhibiton, please visit www.pafa.org.
We are pleased to announce that Scattering Screen by Alyson Shotz will be featured in the North Forest of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AK. Opening in April 2018, "Work from the collection in the North Forest" is curated by Lauren Haynes.
For more information about the exhibiton, please visit www.crystalbridges.org.
We are pleased to announce the work of Nancy Shaver will be included in the upcoming exhibition Dime-Store Alchemy at The FLAG Art Foundation. The exhibition will be on view from June 5 through August 17, 2018. The exhibition focuses on contemporary artists who elevate every day, often forgotten (or taken for granted) items through the framing device of cabinets, shelving, and containers.
For more information about the exhibiton, please visit www.flagartfoundation.org.
We are pleased to announce the work of Karl Wirsum will be included in the upcoming exhibition Hairy Who? 1966-1969 at The Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition will be on view from September 27, 2018 through January 13, 2019.
For more information about the exhibiton, please visit www.artic.edu.
We are pleased to announce the work of Michelle Segre will be included in the upcoming exhibition Objects Like Us at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT. The exhibition will be on view from May 20, 2018 through January 13, 2019, and will feature more than seventy tabletop art objects by fifty-six artists.
For more information about the exhibiton, please visit www.aldrichart.org.
We are pleased to announce the work of Nancy Shaver will be featured in the upcoming exhibition Outliers and American Vanguard Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. The exhibition will be on view from January 29 through May 13, 2018, and will highlight the work of twentieth-century outlier American artists.
For more information about the exhibiton, please visit www.nga.gov.
In December 2017 the Guggenheim Bilbao will present Art and Space, an exhibition exploring the experience of space featuring Alyson Shotz. The exhibition will be on view December 5, 2017 through April 8, 2018.
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Karl Wirsum will be included in the exhibition Famous Artists from Chicago, 1965 - 1975 at the Fondazione Prada in Milan.
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Michelle Segre will be in included in Ephemera at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park KS. The exhibition will be on view from October 19, 2017 until January 28, 2018.
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David Kennedy Cutler will be included in (Self) in conjunction with the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's Time Based Art Festival.
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We are pleased to announce that Rob Fischer's "City", a site-specific installation at 54th Street and Park Avenue, will run September 11-November 15, 2017. Presented by The Fund for Park Avenue, NYC Parks , and Derek Eller Gallery.
For further information please visit www.fundforparkavenue.org.
We are pleased to announce the work of Dominic McGill will be featured in the upcoming exhibition On the Move: A Century of Crossing Borders at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opening August 2017.
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Thomas Barrow will be featured in the exhibition Longer Ways to Go: Photography of the American Road at the Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ. The show explores the symbiotic relationship between photogrpahy and the folklore of the American highway.
For more information, visit www.phxart.org.com
We are pleased to share that Michelle Segre will be on the cover of Sculpture Magazine. The June 2017 issue will feature a conversation between Segre and Michael Amy discussing the artist's recent work, use of unorthodox materials and cosmological allusions.
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On Saturday, April 29, Locust Projects, Miami, FL, will open Under Water, a collaboration between Michael DeLucia, David Kennedy Cutler and David Scanavino. The three New York-based artists have created a room-scale installation that interprets a pastoral beach scene across two and three dimensions, with synthetic sun and moon rising over a pixilated ocean. The exhibition will be on view through June 10, 2017.
For more information, please visit locustprojects.org.
Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to announce Peter Shire: Naked Is the Best Disguise at the MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Anna Katz, the exhibition will feature work in design from the 1970s to the present including ceramics, furniture, and a small selection of works on paper. The show will be on view April 22 - July 2, 2017.
For more information, please visit www.moca.org.
The 57th International Art Exhibition, titled VIVA ARTE VIVA and curated by Christine Macel, is organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta. The Exhibition will be open to the public from Saturday May 13th to Sunday November 26th 2017, at the Giardini and the Arsenale venues. The preview will take place on May 10th, 11th and 12th, the awards ceremony and inauguration will be held on Saturday May 13th 2017.
For more information, please visit labiennale.org
This winter, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, will exhibit the densely layered oil paintings of Steve DiBenedetto. The exhibition will be on view through March 4, 2017.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago will screen Suzanne Simpson's 1973 film Karl Wirsum on October 27, 2016. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Karl Wirusm and Gladys Nilsson, moderated by Rob Storr. The conversation will focus on the historical, personal, and philsophical connections between the visual art scenes of Chicago and Northern California in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The sculptural assemblages of Nancy Shaver will be on view with mobiles and paintings by Taylor Davis as part of a two-person exhibition at Adam and Ollman, Portland. The exhibition will run through November 19, 2016.
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This fall, the work of Thomas Barrow will be featured in the exhibition A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY. The exhibition will be on view in the main galleries from October 22, 2016 until January 29, 2017.
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Despina Stokou will be included in the upcoming exhibition Pictura + Poesis at the Kunstverein Gera, Germany. Featuring other artists such as Jenny Holzer and Friederike Feldmann, the exhibition will explore the relationship between art, literature and technology. Pictura + Poesis will be on view from October 20-December 17, 2016.
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Art in General in partnership with Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia will present Force Quit, an exhibition of newly commissioned works by David Kennedy Cutler. The exhibition, curated by Kristen Chappa, will be on view October 9 - 30, 2016 at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia.
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Dieu Donné and the Dedalus Foundation present Pure Pulp, a group exhibition of contemporary artists working in paper. The exhibition is on view at the Dedalus Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, from September 8 - October 16, 2016.
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This fall, Tops Gallery in Memphis, TN will present Law of Dissipation, an exhibition of photographs by Dan Torop. The exhibition will open on September 16, 2016.
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Memphis Does Hanukkah, the latest installment of the Jewish Museum's Masterpieces & Curiosities exhibition series, will feature the work of Peter Shire. Balacing tradition and innovation, the artist has masterfully interpretted the primary ritual object of Hanukkah to create Menorah #7. Shire's work will be accompanied by pieces and ephemera of other members of the Memphis group. For more information on the exhibition, click here.
Alyson Shotz's False Branches #2, 2001, will be on display at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of their upcoming permanent collection exhibition Indestructible Wonder. The exhibition will run from August 18, 2016 through January 28, 2017. For more information on Indestructible Wonder and the San Jose Museum of Art, click here.
Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present a selection of sketchbook drawings by Karl Wirsum at Art Basel 2016.
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Kick off the summer season by attending the annual exhibition opening, featuring new works in The Fields Sculpture Park and Visitors Center gallery by Rob Fischer, Folkert de Jong, Freya Powell, Andreas Savva and Charley Friedman. Children's crafts, tractor rides and light refreshments will be available.
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After more than 18 years in Chelsea, we are excited to be moving the gallery to 300 Broome Street on the Lower East Side.
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For her Morris Gallery presentation, Plane Weave, Shotz has created a large tapestry-like sculpture composed of thousands of pieces of punched aluminum and stainless steel rings of the artist’s design that are connected by hand. A deep investigation into the work of light and gravity on the way that materials function in space, this new work also reflects upon the repeating patterns found in nature.
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In its ninety-second competition for the United States and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 175 Fellowships (including three joint Fellowships) to a diverse group of 178 scholars, artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants.
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Michelle Segre: Sectional Planes and Driftloaves
The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts is pleased to present the Philadelphia one-person premier of New York sculptor Michelle Segre.
Segre’s organic works are an eclectic amalgam of new age naturalism joined with Arte Povera. In her early work, she constructed large-scale naturalistic enlargements of mushrooms and of bones, perhaps sharing a kinship with Nancy Graves or Roxy Paine. These conceptual structures, however, were only the starting point; she now creates monoliths of assembled allusions, chimeras of consciousness, exploring various biomorphic iconographies, mycelia exploding into open fiber or wire webs. Space is punctuated and punctured, wire is used as line, threads connect objects suspended in space. She works with illusion and radically eclectic materials: papier mậché, driftwood, loaves of bread, mold, fungus – references that spiral outward into the world with nonlinear, psychedelic abandon. We notice analogies to Native American God’s Eyes and macramé, her fiberworks like Faith Wilding and Annette Messanger. Her use of bright color harks back to Yves Klein and forward to Franz West. Although this color might initially seem playful, a closer examination points to issues of life, death and transcendence: ways of sustaining a soulful artistic practice.
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New York curator, author, editor, and publisher Raymond Foye joins exhibiting artist Steve DiBenedetto in conversation about contemporary painting and the complex and though-provoking issues raised in the artist's current Aldrich exhibition. The New York Times described DiBenedetto's work as "expertly constructed but aggressively psychedelic and curiously weird...a phenomenal group of canvases."
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Galería Marta Cervera presents Living with Art a group exhibition including Sadie Benning, Marcel Eichner, Dean Levin, and Despina Stokou. The exhibition is on view at Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain and will run from February 23 - March 26, 2016.
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This exhibition explores the history of the medium as a lucid, literate—but not always literal—tool of persuasion. A collaboration with the George Eastman Museum, the show features more than eighty works from the 1840s to the present and reveals the many ways the camera can transmit not only the outward appearance of its subject but also narratives, arguments, and ideas. Drawn chiefly from the Eastman Museum’s rich holdings, and supplemented by works from the Morgan and a private collector, this exhibition features work by William Henry Fox Talbot, Eadweard Muybridge, John Heartfield, Lewis Hine, John Baldessari, Sophie Calle, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Thomas Barrow, among many others.
Sight Reading is co-organized by the Morgan Library & Museum and the George Eastman Museum, Rochester. Sight Reading: Photography and the Legible World will be on view at the George Eastman Museum June 18 - September 18, 2016.
This exhibition brings together artword created at Dieu Donné studio by twenty artists who have participated in the prganization's prestigious residency programs. The artworks range from intimate two0-dimensional studies to large sculptural works, all made from a form of paper pulp. The artists have varied practivces outside of the residency but are united through their exploration of the possibilites of this versitile medium.
Artists whos work will be included are: Ian Copoper, David Kennedy Cutler, E.V. Day, Melvin Edwards, Jane Hammond, Jim Hodges, Mel Kendrick, Jon Kessler, Glenn Ligon, arlene Shechet, Molly Smith, Do Ho Suh, Mary Temple, Richard Tuttle, and Ursula von Rydingsvard.
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Artists require unfettered time and space to engage in their work and the world. Building on the legacy of our founder, Ursula Corning, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation opens the doors of its 15th century castle in rural Umbria annually for four six-week residency sessions of self-directed studio and work time. Each residency community brings together accomplished international artists, writers, and composers at emerging and established moments in their careers. They are joined by a limited number of invited Director’s Guests to foster a robust contemporary dialogue that transcends disciplines and geography.
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In a career that spans three decades, Steve DiBenedetto has established himself as an idiosyncratic artist who has brought the pursuit of painting into the unpredictable chaos and flux that categorize the Postmodern world.
DiBenedetto’s first major solo museum exhibition, Evidence of Everything, will be on view at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum from November 15, 2015, through April 3, 2016, as part of the Painting in Four Takes exhibition series.
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Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age will be the first exhibition to tell the story of painting’s adaptation, absorption and transformation of information technologies in Western Europe and the United States since the 1960s. Its historical starting point in Pop Art and Nouveau Réalisme’s programmatic appropriation and re-contextualization of commercial imagery precedes the advent of digitalization and the Internet by some thirty years.
Featuring over 230 works by 107 artists, Painting 2.0 is one of the largest and most comprehensive exhibitions of contemporary painting to be held by a major museum in recent years.
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Curated by Miguel Gandert, Distinguished Professor of Communications and Journalism, and Chris Wilson, J. B. Jackson Chair of Cultural Landscape Studies
Lee Freidlander, Steve Fitch, Thomas Barrow, Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, Kenneth Winston Baird, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Sabine Delcour, Gus, Foster, Lynn Geesaman, Debora Hunter, William Henry Jackson, Danny Lyon, Joan Meyer, Beaumont Newhall, Bernard Plossu, Edward Ruscha, David Stephenson, Edward Weston and Steve Yates, Edouard Baldus, Francis Frith, Carlton E. Watkins, Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Signed limited exhibtion print of Karl Wirsum, Untitled (study for Baseball Girl, 1964), 1964, produced by Exhibition A.
A founding member of the notorious Chicago collective, The Hairy Who, Karl Wirsum’s style is defined by a graphic sensibility electrified with mordantly humorous imagery and color influenced by comic books, popular icons, Chicago blues, Japanese prints, and Mesoamerican pottery. An erotic, iconic slice of Americana and one of his most captivating characters, Baseball Girl is the embodiment of Wirsum’s distinct visual language. The artist has mounted three solo exhibitions with Derek Eller Gallery (New York), the most recent of which is currently on view through Saturday, October 17.
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Presented in partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), /Dialogues offers panel discussions, conversations and provocative artistic discourse with leading artists, curators, designers and arts professionals on the current issues that engage them.
Internationally renowned curator and co-director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, Hans Ulrich Obrist will speak with members of the legendary Hairy Who, a group of young, eccentric artists that began working in the 1960s after meeting at SAIC. Now categorized into a larger group known as the Chicago Imagists—known for thriving outside of New York’s Pop Art scene—this panel anticipates the fifty-year anniversary of their first Hairy Who exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1966, examining its importance in art history in Chicago and beyond. The voices of three Hairy Who members working today—Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, and Karl Wirsum—will speak alongside Obrist on the impact and significance of the group’s work in a contemporary context.
This exhibition presents new work by KAWS, alongside pieces from his collection by two artists, Chicago-based Karl Wirsum and Japan-based Tomoo Gokita.
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In a series of extended residencies at the Lynden Sculpture Garden beginning in the summer of 2013, Dan Torop made photographs on the grounds which integrate an historical text--Meriwether Lewis’s June 14, 1805 diary entry describing a day and night in the environs of the Great Falls of the Missouri River--with present day visual explorations. Mindful of ecologist Aldo Leopold's description of a nearby landscape, Torop responded to the passage of seasons, animals, and objects across the site, sometimes intervening, always observing.
Frozen Period refers to both a season and an historical epoch. Torop created many photographs during the winter of 2014, when the frigid grounds became an unfamiliar and difficult terrain. The harsh weather, the darkness, and the strict geographic limits of the project became important constraints in which it flourished. But all of the work Torop created was informed by a sense of the "frozen period," the time between the death of the sculpture garden's owner and creator, Peg Bradley, in 1978, and its opening to the public in 2010. During his months at Lynden, Torop sought out the interstitial, private times--early mornings, late evenings, nights--as ideal times to make work.
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Alyson Shotz: Force of Nature marks the artist’s most ambitious show to date. More than fifty works in various mediums will be on view throughout the Halsey Institute, representing the range of Shotz’s artistic output. The exhibition includes a monumental sculptural installation; a site-specific, volumetric wall drawing; and a collaborative animation, as well as digital and traditional prints, photographs, and ceramics.
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Traveling from the RISD Museum and curated by Dan Nadel, Matthew Marks is pleased to present What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to Present, the next exhibition in his three 22nd Street galleries.
The Chicago-based Hairy Who exhibited together from 1966 to 1969. Its members were Jim Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum. Funk Art took root in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s and 1970s and is represented in the exhibition with works by Jeremy Anderson, Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Roy De Forest, Robert Hudson, Ken Price, Peter Saul, and Peter Voulkos. In Ann Arbor, Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw formed Destroy All Monsters as students in the 1970s. Forcefield members Mat Brinkman, Jim Drain, Leif Goldberg, and Ara Peterson, active in Providence from 1996 to 2003, created fictional personas complete with pseudonyms and elaborate garments.
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The 2015 edition of Parcours will be sited in the historical center of Basel around the city's iconic cathedral, infiltrating key locations such as the Museum of Culture, the Natural History Museum, the Town Hall and the Münsterplatz itself. Parcours looks to engage with Basel’s past and present by weaving artistic interventions into the fabric of the specific location each edition inhabits. Presented on stone walls throughout the Parcours area will be Alyson Shotz’s ‘Imaginary Sculptures’ (2014 – 2015). As six panels of text on enamel, these signs are initially experienced as ordinary street signs. However, each panel contains a short text describing an imagined sculpture, using language to conjure forms in the mind of the viewer, demonstrating the notion that every work of art exists in the imagination, first in the mind of the artist and later in the memory of the viewer.
23 sitespecific artworks by internationally renowned as well as emerging artists will be featured, the biggest selection to date, including works by Alexandra Bachzetsis, Davide Balula, Adriano Costa, Alicia Framis, Piero Golia, Tobias Kaspar, Alicja Kwade, Nate Lowman, Michaela Meise, Jonathan Monk, Vik Muniz, Ciprian Mureşan, Peter Regli, David Renggli, Ugo Rondinone, Yves Scherer, Lara Schnitger, Alyson Shotz, Daniel Silver, Philippe Thomas, Blair Thurman and Francisco Tropa.
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AMETRIA is the privilege of disproportion, of excess, the rejection of an overall vision, the error that turns out to be right. Out of the meeting of the Benaki Museum and the DESTE Foundation, works and objects become proofs of an impulse that, as a precise and determinate entity, takes part in the evolution of thought.
The exhibition includes, Aurel Schmidt, Barnaby Furnas, Dominic McGill, Judith Bernstein, Matthew Richie, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Chan, Scott Campbell, Theodoros Poulakis, Urs Fischer, Wes Lang, among others.
AMETRIA is organized by the DESTE Foundation in collaboration with the Benaki Museum. The collaboration between the two institutions was initiated in 2014 and, through a series of solo and group contemporary art exhibitions hosted at the Benaki Museum, aims to promote new and radical developments in contemporary art practice and inspire novel curatorial approaches.
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The Phillips Collection celebrates the fifth anniversary of Intersections, which since 2009 has presented the work of 21 artists—10 men and 11 women—from the US and abroad. Each artist engaged the museum’s collection and architecture in different ways, creating diverse projects—both aesthetically and conceptually—and employing various media and approaches from wall-drawing, rubber-painting, bicycle spoke sculpture, and digital photography to video projection and yarn installation. This exhibition presents works by Intersections artists that have been acquired to date, both pieces that were featured in past installations and new works that are reminiscent or emblematic of the projects. Most importantly, the anniversary exhibition is a celebration of the Phillips’s mission to actively collect and display contemporary art.
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SPEARS, Gabriele Beveridge, Jesse Greenberg, Henry Gunderson, Daniel Heidkamp, JPW3, Jenny Kalliokulju, Sofia Leiby, Jim Thorell
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Fascinated by the physics of the natural world, sculptor Alyson Shotz makes work that examines phenomena that are often considered inscrutable–gravity, light, space, and time. Using synthetic materials such as glass beads, stainless steel, and mirrors, Shotz renders mathematical and molecular structures on a monumental scale. Her sculptures are intricate, ethereal and responsive to a site’s conditions. Changes in light, time of day, and viewing angle, affect the presence of her work.
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When the Whitney Museum of American Art opens its new Renzo Piano-designed home in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District on May 1, 2015, the first exhibition on view will be an unprecedented selection of works from the Museum’s renowned permanent collection. Setting forth a distinctly new narrative, America Is Hard to See presents fresh perspectives on the Whitney’s collection and reflects upon art in the United States with over 600 works by some 400 artists, spanning the period from about 1900 to the present. The exhibition—its title is taken from a poem by Robert Frost and also used by the filmmaker Emile de Antonio for one of his political documentaries—is the most ambitious display to date of the Whitney’s collection.
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This exhibition features recent work by Brooklyn-based sculptor Alyson Shotz, whose practice examines the properties and interactions of light, gravity, mass, and space. Shotz bridges disciplines in her work, drawing on scientific methods, mathematical principles, and literature, among other diverse fields. Often employing nontraditional materials such as glass beads, linen thread, stainless-steel filaments, and welded aluminum to create large-scale abstract sculptures, Shotz expands upon conventional notions of sculptural space and form.
Alyson Shotz: Force of Nature marks the artist’s most ambitious show to date. More than fifty works in various mediums are on view throughout the museum, representing the range of Shotz’s artistic output. The exhibition includes a monumental sculptural installation; a newly created Möbius strip–inspired sculpture commissioned by the museum for its collection; a site-specific, fifty-foot volumetric wall drawing; and a collaborative animation, as well as digital and traditional prints, photographs, and ceramics.
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Beyond the Surface: Image as Object, curated by Dan Leers, features works by David Kennedy Cutler, Ethan Greenbaum, and Sara Greenberger Rafferty
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What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture, and vernacular image-making from 1960 to the present that has been largely overlooked and undervalued. At the heart of What Nerve! are four mini-exhibitions based on crucial shows, spaces, and groups in Chicago (the Hairy Who), San Francisco (Funk), Ann Arbor (Destroy All Monsters), and Providence (Forcefield)—places outside the artistic focal point of New York. These moments are linked together by six influential or intersecting artists: H. C. Westermann, Jack Kirby, William Copley, Christina Ramberg, Gary Panter, and Elizabeth Murray.
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NYFA provides unrestricted grants of $7,000 to New York-based artists through its Artists' Fellowships. First launched in 1985, the program has provided over $27 million in unrestricted cash grants to artists in 15 disciplines at critical stages in their creative development. The funds are unrestricted, and can be used in any manner the artists deem necessary to further their careers.
The extensive list of past awardees includes the winners of five Academy Awards, five Tony Awards, eight Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards ,and 15 MacArthur ''Genius'' Fellowships. The funds are unrestricted, and can be used in any manner the artists deem necessary to further their careers.
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