SculptureCenter Announces Winter Exhibitions, New Publications, and More
By: Louisa Brady Feb. 13, 2016
SculptureCenter has announced more performances presented as part of The Eccentrics and has released new catalogs. Plus, see recent SculptureCenter press and learn about their booth at the Armory Show below!
The Eccentrics Performance Program
The Eccentrics Performance Program extends out of the works on view by four of the artists exhibiting in the current SculptureCenter exhibition, The Eccentrics. The performances are all new commissions. Tickets are free but limited and must be reserved in advance on our website.
The remaining dates in the series include the premiere of a performance by Jeanine Oleson at 7pm onTuesday, March 1, intended as part of a material investigation in which the artist handles clay and copper, exploring their properties as constructive and conductive elements, that has also resulted in a new 3D video and group of sculptures in the exhibition.
At 6pm on Monday, April 4, Ieva Misevi?i?t?'s new performance will originate on, but ultimately venture off of a tongue, a recurring element in her performances, which functions as a site-specific sculpture that also serves as a stage on view for the duration of the exhibition.
Winter Exhibitions Now Open:
The Eccentrics
Featuring Sanya Kantarovsky, Adriana Lara, Ieva Misevi?i?t?, Eduardo Navarro, Jeanine Oleson, Georgia Sagri, Zhou Tao, and Tori Wrånes
A mode of popular entertainment that links ancient and modern technologies, the structural, emotional, and cognitive effects of the circus operate as an abstract framework for this group exhibition and performance program.
Rochelle Goldberg: The Plastic Thirsty
For her first solo institutional exhibition, Goldberg has hand rendered human-scaled sculptures in ceramic and steel that are evocative of hybrid fish forms and other motifs, enacting a psychological narrative around our post-industrial age.
Now Showing: Jessi Reaves
For Now Showing-a program that highlights a single artwork or project in areas throughout SculptureCenter's building-Reaves presents a chair and ottoman set, an artwork as well as a comfortable seat.
Also on view: Anthea Hamilton: Cigarette Pipes.
New SculptureCenter Publications
We are excited to announce the publication of our newest fully-illustrated exhibition catalogs. Both are available on our website and for pre-order from our bookstore.
The publication accompanying the group exhibition The Eccentrics contains essays by SculptureCenter Curator Ruba Katrib and curator and writer Mark Beasley, while the book accompanying Rochelle Goldberg: The Plastic Thirsty contains an essay by Katrib.
First Saturdays in the Loft
First Saturdays are a series of fun Family Art Workshops in our new multi-purpose space! For the March workshop, taking place at 9:30am on Saturday, March 5, join artist Gina Beavers for From Life! In 3D as she leads a class in making modeled reliefs inspired by things we see in our everyday lives! Participants will discuss finding inspiration in the things they see around them, look at the works of artists who used relief as a fundamental part of their work, sketch their ideas, and create their own relief with air-dry modeling clay.
Suitable for children ages 6-11. One adult must accompany up to three children throughout the program. Materials fee: $10 per child. Advanced registration is required via this form.
SculptureCenter in the News
SculptureCenter exhibitions and programs have been making headlines! Blouin Artinfo calls our winter exhibitions "a winning trio." The New York Times says that The Eccentrics "promises to reveal novel, offbeat and liberating modes of being" while the Village Voice calls the exhibition "smart" and says "this is one show that knows how to make a scene."
Brooklyn Magazine calls SculptureCenter "under the radar" but the New York Times Real Estate section found us there and calls us "an institution of note."
SculptureCenter at the Armory Show
SculptureCenter will present a booth at the upcoming Armory Show, March 3-6. Come and visit us at Booth 845 on Pier 94 to view our selection of limited editions by artists including Nairy Baghramian, Anthea Hamilton, Pamela Rosenkranz, Mika Tajima, and Anicka Yi. The proceeds of all sales benefit our ambitious program.
SculptureCenter Welcomes Kith & Kin to The Loft
SculptureCenter is pleased to welcome local poetry reading series Kith & Kin to our new multi-purpose space, The Loft, on Sunday, February 21, featuring readings by Edwin Torres, Tonya M. Foster, and Anselm Berrigan. Doors open at 5pm for a chance to see our current exhibitions with the reading starting at 6pm. See the Kith & Kin Facebook page for more information.
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