SculptureCenter - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for SculptureCenter. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“In Practice: Devin T. Mays” Exhibition
Devin T. Mays makes work through ongoing encounters with objects and fragments ranging from excavated concrete to tree branches, feathers, dirt, steel beams, and light fixtures, with the same eroding materials...More »
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“In Practice: Marina Xenofontos” Exhibition
Marina Xenofontos, NEW FAITHFUL, 2023, video still. Single-channel archival video, rejected Lordos monobloc chairs. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Hot Wheels, Athens Marina Xenofontos is...More »
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Tania Pérez Córdova “Generalization”
Generalization is the first survey of artist Tania Pérez Córdova (b. 1979, Mexico City) in a United States institution, featuring a selection of twenty-four works made over the past ten years, as well...More »
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Julian Abraham Togar “Too good to be OK”
SculptureCenter announces Julian Abraham “Togar”: Too good to be OK, the artist’s first solo exhibition in a U.S. institution. Too good to be OK continues and builds upon Julian Abraham “Togar”’s long...More »
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“In Practice: Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik” Exhibition
Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik works in sculpture, public art, architecture, video, and installation. Parasympathetic Fever Dream, their new work for SculptureCenter, intervenes in the circadian rhythm of plants,...More »
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Édgar Calel “B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone)”
SculptureCenter presents Édgar Calel: B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone), the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition. B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone) continues artist Édgar Calel’s engagement with the Mayan Kaqchikel...More »
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Liz Larner “Don’t put it back like it was”
For the past three decades, Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner has explored the material and social possibilities of sculpture in innovative and surprising ways. Her use of materials ranges from the traditional—such...More »
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“Niloufar Emamifar, SoiL Thornton, and an Oral History of Knobkerry” Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents Niloufar Emamifar, SoiL Thornton, and an Oral History of Knobkerry. The exhibition brings artists Niloufar Emamifar and SoiL Thornton into proximity with the history of Knobkerry,...More »
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Diane Severin Nguyen Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents the first solo institutional exhibition of Diane Severin Nguyen. Curated by Sohrab Mohebbi, Curator-at-Large, the show will present a newly commissioned video and installation...More »
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“In Practice: You may go, but this will bring you back” Exhibition
In Practice: You may go, but this will bring you back, the twenty-fifth iteration of SculptureCenter’s signature open call exhibition, features newly commissioned works by eleven artists: Carlos Agredano,...More »
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Rindon Johnson “Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies”
Rindon Johnson’s work cuts through the membrane of assumed realities and shows how the virtual and actual are always and increasingly integrated. Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies will include newly commissioned...More »
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Tishan Hsu “Liquid Circuit”
Tishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit is the New York-based artist’s first museum survey exhibition in the United States. The exhibition traces Hsu’s key ideas and demonstrates how they clearly resonate in the works...More »
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Jesse Wine “Imperfect List”
Imperfect List continues British-born, New York-based artist Jesse Wine’s open and intuitive approach to sculpture, building upon a fifteen-year engagement with clay as his primary artmaking material....More »
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Rafael Domenech Exhibition
For his new commission at SculptureCenter, Rafael Domenech creates a large-scale modular installation in the ground floor gallery. Responding to the conditions of the exhibition space as a former trolley...More »
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“In Practice: Total Disbelief” Exhibition
In Practice: Total Disbelief considers artistic engagements with dimensions of doubt as they contribute to the formation of social life. Across media, the works in the exhibition engage formal tools that...More »
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Christian Nyampeta “École du soir (The Evening Academy)”
Christian Nyampeta’s project consists of a scriptorium (a place for writing), an exhibition, and public programs concerned with “thinking Africa,” then and now. The program is resourced around the idea...More »
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“Searching the Sky for Rain” Exhibition
Rindon Johnson, So it’s pretty big, it’s about twice the size of my fist, you can hear the bag is crunching as I turn it over, there’s not a single animal, no insect, nothing, it is so old it reflects...More »
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Ektor Garcia “Cadena Perpetua”
SculptureCenter presents ektor garcia: cadena perpetua, the artist’s first solo exhibition in a New York institution. ektor garcia’s work looks like things meant to connect other things, like fasteners,...More »
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“Closed for installation, Fiona Connor, SculptureCenter, #4” Exhibition
Los Angeles-based artist Fiona Connor remakes overlooked everyday objects, including bulletin boards, park benches, community noticeboards, doors of closed down clubs, real estate signs, municipal water...More »
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Jean-Luc Moulène “More or Less Bone”
SculptureCenter presents More or Less Bone (Formal Topological Optimization) (Paris-NY, 2018-19), a monumental new work in fiberglass and epoxy paint by Jean-Luc Moulène. The exhibition marks the artist’s...More »
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Banu Cennetoğlu Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents Banu Cennetoğlu, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. In her wide ranging cross-disciplinary practice, Banu Cennetoğlu uses objects, images, texts, and printed...More »
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“In Practice: Other Objects” Exhibition
In Practice: Other Objects presents new work by eleven artists and artist teams that probes the slippages and interplay between objecthood and personhood. From personal belongings to material evidence,...More »
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“Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995” Exhibition
Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995 features work by Dara Birnbaum, Ernst Caramelle, Takahiko Iimura, Shigeko Kubota, Mary Lucier, Muntadas, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Friederike Pezold, Diana...More »
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“74 million million million tons” Exhibition
Individuals and objects contribute to and corroborate accounts of a significant event, or shift, in material, social, technological, and/or political realities. But before this happens, there is a period...More »
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Carissa Rodriguez “The Maid”
SculptureCenter presents Carissa Rodriguez: The Maid, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in New York City, and In Practice: Another Echo, an exhibition presented through SculptureCenter’s open call...More »
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“In Practice: Another Echo” Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents Another Echo, an exhibition presented through In Practice, SculptureCenter’s open call commissioning program for emerging artists. Exemplifying the spirit of SculptureCenter’s...More »
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Kelly Akashi “Long Exposure”
Kelly Akashi is a Los Angeles-based artist working in sculpture and photography, often using materials like wax, glass, bronze, light, and air to emphasize time and ephemerality. Akashi’s exhibition at...More »
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Nicola L. “Works, 1968 to the Present”
Since the 1960s, Nicola L. has occupied a unique position through her interdisciplinary practice. She creates works that are thematically connected but take on many different forms and formats, from performance...More »
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Sam Anderson “The Park”
Sam Anderson has created a series of newly commissioned sculptures and video work for SculptureCenter’s lower level galleries. Anderson creates compositions with figures and objects that inhabit oddly...More »
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Teresa Burga “Mano Mal Dibujada”
Teresa Burga’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States presents works dating from the 1960s to today. Burga was an active figure in the avant-garde art scene in Lima, Peru, which was effectively...More »
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Charlotte Prodger “Subtotal”
Charlotte Prodger’s United States debut features new and existing works taking on the dérive as a storytelling device. Using sound and moving image, Prodger interweaves narrative fragments that imbed time...More »
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“Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise” Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents the first exhibition of the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (Congolese Plantation Workers Art League or CATPC) in the United States. Creating sculptures...More »
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“In Practice: Material Deviance” Exhibition
Informed by encounters with the quotidian, unassuming stuff of life and its circulation, the artists included in Material Deviance connect material and bodily processes with social and infrastructural...More »
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Cosima von Bonin “Who’s Exploiting Who in the Deep Sea?”
Who’s Exploiting Who in the Deep Sea?, Cosima von Bonin’s first solo museum exhibition in New York City, examines the German artist’s fascination with the sea. Commonly evoked in her works, but rarely...More »
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Aki Sasamoto “Delicate Cycle”
SculptureCenter present Aki Sasamoto’s first solo exhibition in a U.S. museum. Working at the intersection of performance and sculpture, Sasamoto creates object scenarios out of narratives and actions....More »
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“In Practice: Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New” Exhibition
The title of this exhibition, taken directly from Freud’s lecture on dreams, is a sentence stopped midway. He completes the thought by stating that the creative process of the mind can only regroup elements...More »
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Leslie Hewitt “Collective Stance”
SculptureCenter presents an exhibition titled Collective Stance featuring new and recent work by artist Leslie Hewitt. The exhibition includes two film installations along with recent sculpture and lithographs....More »
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“The Eccentrics” Exhibition
The figure of the “eccentric”—a term for Russian circus performers used in the early 20th century—refers to the clowns, magicians, and acrobats who were the forerunners to the comic actors that inhabited...More »
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Rochelle Goldberg “The Plastic Thirsty”
SculptureCenter presents the first solo institutional exhibition by Rochelle Goldberg. Born in Vancouver, Canada, she is currently based in New York City. Goldberg stages sculptural topographies composed...More »
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“Now Showing: Jessi Reaves” Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents Now Showing: Jessi Reaves. Now Showing is a program that highlights a single artwork or project in areas throughout SculptureCenter’s building and is an exploratory and flexible...More »
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Gabriel Sierra “Numbers in a Room”
Gabriel Sierra will create a new group of work in SculptureCenter’s lower level galleries for his first solo museum exhibition in New York City. Working site-specifically, Sierra follows the architecture...More »
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Anthea Hamilton “Lichen! Libido! Chastity!”
Anthea Hamilton will feature new and existing works for her first solo museum exhibition in the United States. Investigating cultural appropriation and pop culture, Hamilton mines countercultures in music,...More »
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Michael Stevenson “The Fountain of Prosperity”
SculptureCenter present Michael Stevenson’s The Fountain of Prosperity (2006). The work was created after the artist’s extensive research into the Phillips Machine, a.k.a. Monetary National Income Analogue...More »
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Michael E. Smith Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents Michael E. Smith’s first major solo museum exhibition in the United States. The exhibition will present new works created specifically for SculptureCenter’s lower level galleries....More »
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Erika Verzutti “Swan with Stage”
Erika Verzutti presents a new body of sculptures and images in her first solo exhibition in New York City. Working between synthetic and organic materials, Verzutti creates hybrid objects and situations...More »
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Magali Reus “Spring for a Ground”
SculptureCenter presents Magali Reus, a new body of work co-commissioned by SculptureCenter, the Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire, UK, Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, Germany, and the Fondazione Sandretto...More »
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“In Practice: Under Foundations” Exhibition
Annual open-call exhibition for emerging artists with a focus on the production of new work. Curated by SculptureCenter 2014-15 Curatorial Fellow Jess Wilcox. Featuring Newly Commissioned Works by Rosa...More »
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“Now Showing: Belleza y Felicidad” Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents Now Showing: Belleza y Felicidad, a mini-retrospective of poetry booklets by the Buenos Aires-based literature and art collective Belleza y Felicidad. Now Showing is a program...More »
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Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, the Thai artist’s first retrospective in the United States. Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook is one of the most prominent artists working in Southeast Asia....More »
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“Puddle, Pothole, Portal” Exhibition
With play and curiosity, we can test boundaries and decipher our space. Bumping into objects, pushing them over, hopping over figments, falling down, we are clumsy and mischievous, like children in a world...More »
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Katrín Sigurdardóttir “Foundation”
Foundation is a large-scale installation comprising a raised ornamental surface, mapping out the floor of a fictional 18th century pavilion. Hand-made tiles form intricate patterns in the baroque style,...More »
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Liz Glynn “Ransom Room”
RANSOM ROOM is a continually evolving installation exploring the ramifications of cultural destruction. Liz Glynn’s work has frequently referenced historic objects and artifacts to trace shifts in political,...More »
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Jory Rabinovitz “Now Showing”
SculptureCenter presents Now Showing: Jory Rabinovitz. Now Showing is a program that highlights a single artwork or project in areas throughout SculptureCenter’s building. Working with artists to find...More »
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Radamés “Juni” Figueroa “Naguabo Rainbow Daguao Enchumbao Fango Fireflies”
For his exhibition the SculptureCenter, Radamés “Juni” Figueroa is creating is creating a site-specific structure that will reference a previously built tree house in Naguabo, Puerto Rico. The construction...More »
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Rossella Biscotti “The Undercover Man”
SculptureCenter presents the U.S. premiere of Rossella Biscotti’s film The Undercover Man (2008). Part of a larger project that includes sculptures, photographs, and a publication, the film is a portrait...More »
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David Douard “)juicy o’f the nest”
For his exhibition at SculptureCenter, )juicy o’f the nest., David Douard is creating new works that explore notions around the literal and figurative underground, or underbelly, of a city. Mirroring systems...More »
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Jumana Manna “Menace of Origins”
Jumana Manna is creating a group of new sculptures in relation to her video work, Blessed Blessed Oblivion (2010). The video work references Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising (1963), and examines macho culture...More »
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“In Practice: Chance Motives” Program
Event Date: Saturday, February 8, 12-6pm Open Rehearsals: February 5-7, 12-6pm Daily SculptureCenter presents Chance Motives, a program of time-based work presented through In Practice, SculptureCenter’s...More »
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Tue Greenfort “Garbage Bay”
SculptureCenter presents the first US solo exhibition of Danish artist Tue Greenfort, whose interdisciplinary practice deals with the overlap of public and private realms, natural and cultural history....More »
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Agnieszka Kurant “Exformation”
SculptureCenter presents the first solo exhibition in the United States by Polish artist Agnieszka Kurant. Kurant’s work explores the hybrid status of objects and the ways in which rumors and fictions...More »
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“Now Showing: Sam Anderson” Exhibition
SculptureCenter is pleased to announce Now Showing: Sam Anderson. Now Showing is a new program, highlighting a single artwork or project in areas throughout SculptureCenter’s building. Working with artists...More »
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"Better Homes" Exhibition
"You will express yourself in your house, whether you want to or not...." - Elsie de Wolfe, The House in Good Taste, 1913. Better Homes brings together a group of artists who examine the construction...More »
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Nairy Baghramian "Retainer"
SculptureCenter presents RETAINER by Berlin-based artist Nairy Baghramian. This will be her first exhibition in the United States. Baghramian’s work examines political and social systems of power and encompasses...More »
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"Double Life" Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents the exhibition Double Life, which brings together a group of artists that share a performance-based approach to sculpture. Common strategies include inhabiting the physical site...More »
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"A Disagreeable Object" Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents the group exhibition A Disagreeable Object. Taking its title from Alberto Giacometti's surrealist sculptures, this building-wide exhibition explores themes of desire and repulsion,...More »
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Bill Bollinger "The Retrospective"
SculptureCenter hosts Bill Bollinger: The Retrospective. This exhibition, surveys the brief, yet historically significant career of Bill Bollinger, an American artist active in New York from 1966-72. Bollingerýs...More »
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David Maljkovic and Lucy Skaer "Scene, Hold, Ballast"
SculptureCenter presents Scene, Hold, Ballast a two person exhibition with David Maljkovic and Lucy Skaer, artists whose work shares an engagement with sculpture, film, and distinct approaches to exhibition...More »
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"You never look at me from the place from which I see you" Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents the In Practice program exhibition You never look at me from the place from which I see you. Featuring works by A.K. Burns, Yve Laris Cohen, Michael DeLucia, Aleksandra Domanović,...More »
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"Notice of Public Hearing" Exhibition
SculptureCenter hosts the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) Art & Law Residency Program exhibition Notice of Public Hearing. The exhibition features works by the 2011 Residency artists made in response...More »
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Alejandro Cesarco and Ursula Mayer "Part Three"
Reading Room: Sarah Chacich, Angie Keefer, Matt Keegan, and Rita Sobral Campos Part Four: Performance program by Sarah Chacich, Angie Keefer, and Danna Vajda December 4 SculptureCenter presents...More »
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Sanford Biggers "Cosmic Voodoo Circus"
SculptureCenter presents Cosmic Voodoo Circus, an exhibition of new work by Sanford Biggers commissioned through SculptureCenter's Artist in Residence program. Merging modern and post-modern strategies...More »
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"Short Stories" Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents a unique exhibition series Short Stories, guest curated by Isla Leaver-Yap. Short Stories navigates the fabricated spaces of representation. It questions the role of art historian...More »
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"Time Again" Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents Time Again, an exhibition that explores the language of repetition, bringing together works that destabilize conventional ways of seeing and considering what is past and what is...More »
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"Speculative Futures" Exhibition
SculptureCenter presents a unique off-site exhibition Speculative Futures. Featuring works by Julieta Aranda, Beth Campbell, Cao Fei, and Ana Prvacki, Speculative Futures looks at futurological tendencies...More »
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"Vide-Poche" Exhibition
Presented through SculptureCenter's In Practice program, this group exhibition explores what arises from the gesture of emptying out form and content. The French phrase vide-poche literally translates...More »
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Ursula von Rydingsvard "Sculpture 1991-2009"
SculptureCenter is pleased to premiere Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture 1991 - 2009. Organized by SculptureCenter, this traveling exhibition will include a selection of the artist's most significant sculptures,...More »
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Lara Schnitger "Two Masters and Her Vile Perfume"
Two Masters and Her Vile Perfume is a highly theatrical sculptural installation featuring Schnitger's signature wood and fabric structures. Themes of metamorphosis, divinity, decay, and sadomasochism --...More »
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Elizabeth Neel "Stick Season"
Elizabeth Neel's work relies on a controlled chaos that conflates a palimpsest-like understanding of imagery with a masterful facility for gestural mark making and layered abstraction. A new body of paintings...More »
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Lovett/Codagnone and Tom Zook "Your Hero is a Ghost"
Your Hero is a Ghost comprises a large-scale sculpture and sound work and transforms the entire SculptureCenter courtyard into a theatrical space. The installation builds on prior work by Lovett/Codagnone...More »
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"In Practice Projects, Fall 2010" Exhibition
Justin Matherly: Matherly's sculptures consist of ambulatory equipment (walkers, crutches, shower chairs) that have been cut and reconfigured to hold up concrete forms that recall misfigured bodies, roughhewn...More »
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"Knight's Move" Exhibition
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...More »
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"Leopards in the Temple" Exhibition
Leopards in the Temple is a parable by Franz Kafka that reads as follows: "Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again;...More »
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Ann Sperry "Harmonic Convergence"
This solo exhibition presents an overview of the work of Ann Sperry (1934-2009) reflecting on four decades of experimentation with the emotional and psychological potential of material. Sperry began making...More »
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Mike Kelley and Michael Smith "A Voyage of Growth and Discovery"
"A Voyage of Growth and Discovery" is a collaborative video installation by artists Mike Kelley and Michael Smith. The installation will include a six-channel video featuring Michael Smith's character...More »
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"Grand Openings" Exhibition
Founded in 2005 by Ei Arakawa, Jutta Koether, Jay Sanders, Emily Sundblad, and Stefan Tcherepnin, Grand Openings is a cooperation of artists working in different disciplines uniting performance, acting,...More »
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"In Practice Fall 2009" Exhibition
The works on view are commissioned through SculptureCenter's In Practice project series, which supports the creation and presentation of innovative work by emerging artists and reflects diverse approaches...More »
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"Subjective Histories of Sculpture III: Simon Starling" Artist Talk
SculptureCenter presents a series of artist-led lectures: Subjective Histories of Sculpture III. This lecture series furthers SculptureCenter's exploration of how contemporary artists think about sculpture,...More »
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"In Practice Summer '09" Exhibition
Michael Ashkin's project consists of a miniaturized model of a fictional urban agglomeration at a scale of 1:128. Built entirely of found cardboard, stretching the length of the central basement tunnel...More »
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Rashid Johnson "Smoke and Mirrors"
For his first solo museum show in New York, Rashid Johnson will present a number of new large-scale sculptural works that suggest altars, entertainment consoles, or constructivist-like abstractions alongside...More »
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"The University of Trash" Exhibition
New York based artist Michael Cataldi and London based artist Nils Norman transform the Sculpture Center into The University of Trash, an exciting experiment in alternative city building and design. Working...More »
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"Lucky Draw" Random Draw Auction
All ticket holders take home a work of art! Order of selection determined by random drawing, with an auction for the first 3 picks, for those who don't trust their luck! More »
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"It's All Yours Now" Performance
Ranging from a love letter to a song, all six pieces and performances use dialogue and travesty as forms of exploration of power, identity politics, and transmission. The evening of performances will...More »
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"The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object" Exhibition
The featured artists build on the ideas and critical positions of Process Art and employ methods that range from documentary to literary, but the emphasis is on a direct engagement with the materiality...More »
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Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone "We Burn, We Shiver"
"We Burn, We Shiver" featuring newly commissioned works, creates a sculptural conversation in which public and private space collide and the prosaic meets the romantic. Martin Boyce presents a suspended...More »
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Sculpture Center Exhibition Tour
Discover SculptureCenter, a not-for-profit museum dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture. Walk through SculptureCenter's current exhibition, Decoys, Complexes, and...More »
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"Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s" Exhibition
This exhibition focuses on work by women artists who made significant contributions to the development of sculptural practice in the 1970s. They explored the formal constructs of Post-Minimalism: altering...More »
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"Lucky Draw" Benefit
Lucky Draw is the Sculpture Center's annual Spring Benefit. All ticket holders take home a work of art! More »
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"Subjective Histories of Sculpture II" Artist Talk
SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, presents a series of artist-led lectures: Subjective Histories of Sculpture II. This lecture series furthers...More »