SculptureCenter Announces Weekend Events

SculptureCenter is located at 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City. To contact them dial 718 361 1750 or visit www.sculpture-center.org. SculptureCenter is open this Sunday from 11-6

This Sunday, get your fill of the newest contemporary art in Long Island City! Whether you are coming to Queens for the opening of P.S.1's Greater New York or the last weekend of Columbia University's MFA Thesis show at the Fisher Landau Center for Art, don't forget to stop by SculptureCenter to see our new sculpture survey Knight's Move.

Knight's Move
Uri Aran, David Brooks, Carter, Nikolas Gambaroff, Tamar Halpern, Alex Hubbard, Esther Kläs, Daniel Lefcourt, Joanna Malinowska, Ohad Meromi, Virginia Poundstone, Cassie Raihl, Erin Shirreff, Alexandre Singh, Matt SheriDan Smith, Mika Tajima, Tom Thayer, Sara VanDerBeek, Allyson Vieira. Curated by Fionn Meade

This spring SculptureCenter presents a group exhibition that brings together artists prominent to the dialog of New York's recent past as well as those at the very beginning of their careers. Curated by Fionn Meade, this survey of new sculpture in New York embodies an informed yet playful and questioning view of the contemporary.

Knight's Move will be accompanied by a catalog featuring artist profiles and an essay by SculptureCenter Curator Fionn Meade. The catalog will be available in late June.

Performance programs have been organized in collaboration with New York-based curator and writer Jay Sanders, expanding the exhibition's view into New York performance, literature, and music. Alternately taking the form of a literary salon, nightclub, and workshop, the exhibition hosts a series of sequenced events that redirect, overlap, and amplify the work on view. 

Upcoming Events

Incohative Listening + Centerless Portrayal
Yuji Agematsu, Circuit Des Yeux, Tom Kovachevich, Mother Earth, and Tom Thayer
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 8:00 PM - Midnight

An immersive evening of music and live performance features Tom Thayer's eccentric combination of sound, puppetry, and animation; Yuji Agematsu's durational exploration of New York City via slide projection and field recordings; and solo performances by Circuit Des Yeux (Haley Fohr), Tom Kovachevich, and Mother Earth (Kyle Clyde and Dylan Hay) throughout the building and courtyard.

Organized by Keith Connolly and Jay Sanders

Joanna Malinowska, Anna Ostoya, Alexandre Singh, and New Humans
Saturday, June 26, 2010, 5:00 - 8:00 PM

An afternoon and evening of programs begins with a participatory gathering hosted by Joanna Malinowska exploring the reversals and excess of gift exchange, and continues with a visual consideration of violence and desire by Anna Ostoya, and a performative lecture by Alexandre Singh on tangential thinking. A live set by Mika Tajima and New Humans concludes the evening.

Please visit www.sculpture-center.org for complete information on exhibitions and events.

Directions
7 to 45th Road / Courthouse Square, E or V to 23rd / Ely, or G to Courthouse Square (note: the V train does not run on weekends). From all trains, walk north on Jackson Avenue one block past 44th Drive and turn right onto Purves Street.

From P.S.1, SculptureCenter is just three blocks north on Jackson Avenue, past the Citibank tower.

SculptureCenter is five minutes from Midtown by subway.

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