Opening on May 24, Common Ground, a group exhibition featuring sculpture, installation, and performance, looks at how different works of art approach
the idea of public sculpture and civic engagement.
Not exact matches
, known for her large - scale
sculptures and
public installations that often interrogate and explore the
idea of a landscape contributes a large - scale charred and disjunctive map
of America, suggesting the fraught history
of this deeply divided country.
She remains unsure
of how to position the piece so that the
public know it is intended to be eaten, but is excited by the
idea of installing her work at a place where people are not previously aware
of the nature
of her
sculptures.
Call me only if you are in the gutter, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA Exalted Position, curated by Vlad Smolkin, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY Pipe Dream, presented by Night Gallery and Rachel Uffner Gallery, 170 Suffolk Street New York, NY Gallery Artist Group Show, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY TDW: Three Way Weekend, Blum & Poe, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, and ROGERS, Los Angeles, CA 2015 The John Riepenhoff Experience, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings, School
of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY Let's Be Real, Projekt 722, New York, NY 2014 The Crystal Palace, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY QUALIA, FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2013 The Room and its Inhabitants, organized by Patrick Howlett, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada The 2013 deCordova Biennial (with Dushko Petrovich), deCordova
Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA 2012 Love, curated by Stephen Truax, One River Gallery, Engelwood, NJ Art on Paper 2012, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Take Shelter in the World, curated by Dushko Petrovich, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA In Plain Sight, organized by Nicole Russo and Lumi Tan, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY 2011 The
Idea of the Thing That it Isn't, curated by Rachel Uffner, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY Channel to the New Image, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Exhibition
of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients
of Honors and Awards, American Academy
of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY Invitational Exhibition
of Visual Arts, American Academy
of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Battle
of the Brush, organized by Corporate Art Solutions at Bryant Park, New York, NY 2010 The Pencil Show, Foxy Production, New York, NY ITEM, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY S (l) umm (er) ing on Madison Avenue, curated by Jo - ey Tang, The Notary
Public, New York, NY Kristin Calabrese, Andy Parker, Mary Weatherford, Roger White, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid», curated by Ryan Steadman, 106 Green Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Cave Painting: Installment # 2, organized by Bob Nickas, Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY The Audio Show, organized by Seth Kelly, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY 2008 The Merits
of Silence, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo 2007 Heralds
of Creative Anachronism, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY The Price
of Nothing, EFA Gallery, NY 2006 Mystic River, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY / Arcadia University, Glenside, PA 2005 Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL You Are Here, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX The Most Splendid Apocalypse, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY Crits» Pix, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2004 Halloween Horror Films,, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn NY Summery Summary, 58 N3, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Dreamy, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY Escape from New York, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ Late to Work Everyday, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Learnedamerica, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY Tirana Bienalle 1, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania 2000 Columbia University M.F.A. Thesis Show, Brooklyn, NY 1999 All Terrain, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Wight Biennial, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Episode 1, Gair Building, Brooklyn, NY
For a
public symposium held on January 19, 2018, Miguel de Baca further explores
ideas first introduced in his book Memory Work: Anne Truitt and
Sculpture by considering Truitt's oeuvre in the context
of the cultural practice
of historic preservation and the
idea of the 20th - century «monument.»
In contrast to Miyajima's large scale
public artworks, which give an
idea of the immersive nature
of his work but are not on display during the exhibition in Sydney, his exhibited Pile Up Life
sculptures (2009) are small «stupas» moulded from dried earth and studded with blue or red LEDs.
This
idea of casting a narrative shadow over the work extends to other elements
of the show, including a newspaper that strings together loose visual associations relating to the
sculpture, as well as materials instructing docents, preparators, and even interns on how to present the work to the museum
public.
Known for his investigations
of identity and a career - long engagement with
ideas of power, authority, artifice and illusion, Mark Wallinger works in a wide range
of media, covering painting,
sculpture, photography, film, installation, performance and
public art.
The twelve works on display by established and emerging artists build on a dialogue begun in previous years, developing a debate about art in
public places and the condition
of sculpture as an evolving conversation that proceeds by example, as an exchange
of ideas between artists and artworks.»
Madrid Abierto
Public Sculpture Competition, Madrid, ES 2005 Go - Between, Magazin4 / Bregenzer Kunstverein, Curated by Dr. Wolfgang Fetz and Peter Lewis, Bregenz, AT 2005 Library, Librarie, Institute
of Contemporary Art, Curated by
IDEA London, UK 2005 New Economy, Columbia University Art Gallery, Curated by Eric Angles, New York, NY, US 2005 CAC TV, Contemporary Arts Center, Curated by Raimundas Malašauskas, Vilnius, LT 2004 Synesthesia, a Neuroaesthetics Exhibition, Institute
of Contemporary Art, Curated by Chloe Vaitsou, London, UK 2004 Everything is Connected, He, He, He, Astrup Fearnley Museum
of Modern Art, Curated by Gunnar Kvaran, Oslo, NO 2004 Silent: A State
of Being, Madrid Abierto
Public Sculpture Competition, Curated by Jorge Diaz, Madrid, ES 2003 Harlem Postcards, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Curated by Christine Kim, New York, NY, US 2003 Fröhliche Wissenschaft, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Curated by Wilfried Dickoff, Potsdam, DE 2001 Bitstreams, Whitney Museum
of American Art, Curated by Larry Rinder, New York, NY, US 2001 Urban Pornography: Project Room, Artists Space, Curated by Lauri Firstenberg, New York, NY, US 2001 Optical Verve, Ottawa Art Gallery, Curated by Sylvie Fortin, Ottawa, CA 1997 Making It Real, Aldrich Museum
of Art, Curated by Vik Muniz, Ridgefield, Colorado, US.
It was lack
of pretence, not colossal might, that excited a lot
of people, including me, about his
idea to build a giant white horse as a
public sculpture for Ebbsfleet.
Extraordinary pieces
of public sculpture, luminous with reflected light, they distort
ideas of space and play with the line between art and architecture, exerting a curious, totemic power over their often - genteel settings.
Oldenburg became interested in the
idea of «poetry
of scale» as he received numerous
public commissions for
sculpture parks, museums and college campuses, defying the concept that monuments need to depict iconic events or historical figures.
«The
Sculpture Studio operates rather like a laboratory where
ideas can be developed and risks taken without the exposure
of the
public gallery or museum.»
I think I speak for us all when I say that the
ideas which are inherent to
public art are dated, stagnant and, in some cases, boring, so we are all trying to purposefully redevelop the foundations
of what
public sculpture should be and can be.
This group show questions the traditional
idea of «
public sculpture» and is a reprisal
of an earlier group show in 2012 entitled Fabricators at the Hannah Barry Gallery, featuring the same five sculptors, James Balmforth, James Capper, Alex Chinneck, Luke Hart and Zealey.
We all see the importance
of making ambitious thought - provoking large - scale
sculpture that poses questions about
ideas around «
public art» and how to push these
ideas to new levels.
Among the group exhibitions we mention: 99 Cents or Less, MoCAD, Detroit, MI (2017); FRAC Poitou - Charentes, Poitou - Charentes (2016); Global Positioning Systems, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2015); Joie de Vivre, Palais des Beaux - Arts, Lille (2015); Ugo Rondinone: I love John Day, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); Room To Live: Recent acquisitions and works from the collection, MOCA, Los Angeles (2013); Retour du monde, a commission for
public transport in Paris, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (2013); Hors les Murs, FIAC Jardin des Tuileries, Paris (2012); Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi / Punta della Dogana, Venice (2009); Château de Tokyo / Tokyo, Redux, Ile de Vassivière (2008); The Uncertainty
of Objects and
Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (2006); 5 Milliards d'Années, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum
of Art, New York (2004); Terminal 5, JFK Airport, New York (2004).
From his work with humble, readymade materials to his ambitious
public sculptures and his rock band, Creed demonstrates how his
ideas circulate through the variety
of media he engages in his art.
Renowned artist Kendall Buster is best known for her
sculptures and
public works that explore the
idea of «biological architecture.»