June at SculptureCenter

Summer is hot at SculptureCenter and we've got lots of art, events, and projects to keep you coming back to Long Island City. Our summer exhibitions opened on June 1st to an enthusiastic crowd of old and new SculptureCenter friends. Currently on view, Liz Glynn's RANSOM ROOM will be changing daily as she attempts to cast Inca Emperor Atahualpa's ransom in golden wax. And if you are looking for a way to enjoy a day in LIC, check out the new LIC Art Bus that promotes and connects Long Island City's cultural institutions! If you aren't in the city, but want to check out some of our recent SculptureCenter Conversations, we've just uploaded Neomaterialism with Joshua Simon and Sexing Sculpture to our YouTube channel!

Current Exhibitions:

Katrín Sigurdardóttir: Foundation
Liz Glynn: RANSOM ROOM
Now Showing: Jory Rabinovitz

From an imagined 18th century pavilion to the Inca and Roman empires, SculptureCenter's summer exhibitions are a reflection of history, memory, and the repurcussions of human intervention, material and social destruction, and the possibility of renewal. Katrín Sigurdardóttir's Foundation, Iceland's contribution to the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, traveled from Italy to Iceland and has found a new life this summer in SculptureCenter's distinctive industrial building in Long Island City. In RANSOM ROOM, Liz Glynn studies the material cultures of the past to consider the ways in which objects embody, preserve, or challenge values and social systems of the past and of the future. Jory Rabinovitz's Non Olet investigates the boundaries of material and metaphor and their social and societal actualities, as well as how our material possessions relate to our collective value systems.

Check out some of our recent press:

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Follow #LizGynn with @SculptureCenter

As part of the continually evolving installation RANSOM ROOM, artist Liz Glynn will cast various wax objects - vessels, cups, plates - and carry them by hand from studio locations throughout New York City back to SculptureCenter until the exhibition space is filled. During the final week of the exhibition, the collected objects will then be melted down into ingots and eventually displayed on pallets.

Check out the images we took of Liz hard at work at Socrates Sculpture Park and follow her journey on our Instagram as she continues her wax casting process at Recess (Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation), The Kitchen, Cabinet, and other spaces throughout the city. Then, become a part of the work by documenting your own pictures using the hashtags #RANSOMROOM and #LizGlynn.

Events

Save the Date:
Opening Reception for Puddle, pothole, portal
and the inauguration of SculptureCenter's newly expanded building
Sunday, October 5, 2-5pm

Be sure to save the date and join us in celebrating the opening of Puddle, pothole, portal and the inauguration of SculptureCenter's newly renovated and expanded building! The highly anticipated exhibition will include 22 artists from around the world and will look at the changeable notion of real and illusory space - physical, virtual, internal, and external - and its impact on art production today. Thinking through comics, cartoons, and illustration, exemplified by the kaleidoscopic drawings of Saul Steinberg, and films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the exhibition explores the coexistence of disparate elements within shared spaces. It promises to be provocative AND playful!

In conjunction with the exhibition and building openings, we will host an exciting schedule of free, fun activities and performances for the whole family. Can't wait until then? Follow us on Instagram @sculpturecenter as we share some behind the scenes sneak peeks of our newly renovated building in the next several months!

Membership

Ambassadors Summer Cocktail Party

SculptureCenter's Ambassadors support our mission as one of New York City's most adventurous contemporary art spaces while enjoying access to exclusive events such as private tours, studio visits, artist talks, and exciting curated travel experiences. The group celebrates its second year with a cocktail party, private exhibition tours, and a sneak peek at the building expansion under construction. This is a members' only event, so join now!

LIC Art Bus

The LIC Art Bus, which will stop at the entrances of Socrates Sculpture Park, The Noguchi Museum, SculptureCenter, and MoMA PS1, will run on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, from May 10 - September 14, from noon to 6PM. Please see the full schedule here!

This free service is made possible by generous support from Shelley and Donald Rubin, and is a partnership between Socrates, The Noguchi Museum, SculptureCenter, and MoMA PS1.

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