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SCULPTURECENTER ANNOUNCES 2014–2015 EXHIBITION
SCHEDULE
Release Date:
October 1, 2014
INCLUDING THE GROUP SHOWS PUDDLE, POTHOLE, PORTAL AND IN PRACTICE, AN ARAYA
RASDJARMREARNSOOK RETROSPECTIVE, AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS BY ERIKA VERZUTTI, MAGALI
REUS, MICHAEL E. SMITH, ANTHEA HAMILTON, AND GABRIEL SIERRA
SculptureCenter
Exhibition Program 2014–2015
Long Island City, NY – Following the recent renovation and expansion of its dramatic Long Island City
building, SculptureCenter is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition schedule. With its new facility,
SculptureCenter has solidified its commitment to utilizing its New York City space as a platform to
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explore current and compelling themes in contemporary art at an international level.
PUDDLE, POTHOLE, PORTAL
OCTOBER 2, 2014 – JANUARY 5, 2015
Olga Balema, Joachim Bandau, Camille Blatrix, Teresa Burga, Antoine Catala, Abigail DeVille, Jos de
Gruyter & Harald Thys, Judith Hopf, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Allison Katz, Mark Leckey, Maria Loboda,
Win McCarthy, Danny McDonald, Marlie Mul, Mick Peter, Chadwick Rantanen, Lucie Stahl, Saul
Steinberg, Keiichi Tanaami, Lina Viste Grønli, and Jordan Wolfson.
Puddle, pothole, portal is co-curated by Ruba Katrib, Curator, SculptureCenter, and artist Camille
Henrot. 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 of new technologies. Incorporating a sense of wonder and humor, concepts surrounding
animation and cartooning are expanded into an exhibition that enacts a similar sort of hysteria around
flatness and depth in relation to technologies, real and illusory spaces—physical, virtual, internal, and
external.
Thinking through early 20th century cartoons, the kaleidoscopic drawings of Saul Steinberg, the
innovative and self-reflexive film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and other children's entertainment, the
exhibition explores the coexistence of disparate elements within shared spaces. Gags betray complex
meanings and sociopolitical satire, and unrelated objects, locales, and avatars interact in the same
dimension. The works on view transcend the categories that separate drawing from sculpture, the
human from the nonhuman, and the animated from the static, while experiences of technological
devices and flatness lead to fantastic and absurd implications for objects and space. As screens,
passageways, and shadows populate both physical and virtual realms, we question whether they are
reflections or traces of the objective world, obstructions, fantasies, or entryways into other realms.
ARAYA RASDJARMREARNSOOK
JANUARY 25 – MARCH 30, 2015
SculptureCenter is pleased to present Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, the Thai artist's first major
retrospective in the United States. Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (born 1957 in Trat, Thailand) is one of the
most prominent artists working in Southeast Asia. The exhibition will showcase over 20 artworks
spanning two decades of the artist's career, and will include video, sculpture, photography, and some of
her better-known works, as well as those that have rarely been viewed, especially in the United States.
Rasdjarmrearnsook is also producing new sculptures for the exhibition.
Working with psychologically rich materials, Rasdjarmrearnsook considers a wide range of subjects that
have existed in marginal spaces, including women, the deceased, the insane, and animals. She creates
complex narratives that confront societal structures of power and pedagogy. Concerned with systems of
language and communication, Rasdjarmrearnsook makes earnest attempts to converse with subjects
who don't speak in languages that are comprehended by or even acknowledged by mainstream society.
For the past 25 years, her videos and installations have been regularly shown throughout the world.
Rasdjarmrearnsook represented Thailand at the Venice Biennale (2005) and has been featured in many
international exhibitions including Documenta 13 (2013), the Sydney Biennale (2010), the Gwangju
Biennale (2006), the Istanbul Biennial (2003), the Johannesburg Biennial (1995), and the Carnegie
International (2004). Rasdjarmrearnsook is also a respected professor in Thailand's leading art program
at Chiang Mai University, where she has recently spearheaded one of the first media and theory
departments in the country.
IN PRACTICE
JANUARY 25 – APRIL 14, 2015
Annual open-call exhibition for emerging artists with a focus on the production of new work. Guest
curated by SculptureCenter’s 2014–15 Curatorial Fellow Jess Wilcox.
ERIKA VERZUTTI
MAY 2 – AUGUST 3, 2015
Erika Verzutti will present 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
that interrogate relationships between forms and bodies.
Verzutti (born 1971 in São Paulo, Brazil) is based in São Paulo and has had solo exhibitions at the Tang
Museum at Skidmore College (2014) and the Centro Cultural São Paulo (2013). Group exhibitions
include the 56th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art (2013), the Mercosul Biennial, Porto
Alegre, Brazil (2013), and the 11th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France (2011).
MAGALI REUS
MAY 2 – JULY 6, 2015
Magali Reus will present a new body of work co-commissioned by SculptureCenter, the Hepworth
Wakefield in Yorkshire, England and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy. Reus’
exhibition will continue her exploration into the uncanny qualities of products and the creation of
narratives around objects. This will be Reus’ first solo museum exhibition in the United States.
Reus (born 1981 in The Hague, The Netherlands) is based in Amsterdam and London. Recent group
exhibitions include nature after nature, Fridericianum, Kassel (2104), Post/Post Minimal, Kunstmuseum
St. Gallen, Switzerland (2014), and Superficial Hygiene, De Hallen Harlaam, The Netherlands (2014).
MICHAEL E. SMITH
MAY 2 – AUGUST 3, 2015
Michael E. Smith will present new works created specifically for SculptureCenter’s lower level galleries,
his first solo museum exhibition in the United States. These new sculptures will further Smith’s
investigation into the inherent, yet latent, qualities of materials through various means of decay and
degradation.
Smith (born 1977 in Detroit) is based in Hopkinton, NH has had solo exhibitions at La Triennale in
Milan (2014), CAPC museé d’art contemporain de Bordeax (2013), and CAM St. Louis (2011). Recent
group exhibitions include humanonhumain at Foundation D’Enterprise Ricard, Paris (2014), Being Here
& Being Thus. Sculpture, Object & Stage at Frankfurter Kunstverein (2014), Realization is Better than
Anticipation at MOCA Cleveland (2013), A Disagreeable Object at SculptureCenter (2012), and the
Whitney Biennial (2012).
ANTHEA HAMILTON
SEPTEMBER 19 – DECEMBER, 2015
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 (such as
disco in the 1970s) and their entrance into the mainstream. Hamilton questions the representation of
cultural phenomenon through popular media through her sculptures and videos.
Hamilton (born 1978 in London) is based in London and has had solo exhibitions at firstsite in
Colchester, England (2012), the Tanks at the Tate Modern (2012), and the Chisenhale, London (2009).
Recent group exhibitions include Don’t You Know Who I Am? – Art After Identity Politics at MuKHA,
Antwerp (2014), the 10th Gwangju Biennale (2014), the Glasgow International (2014), and Better
Homes (2013) at SculptureCenter.
GABRIEL SIERRA
SEPTEMBER 19 – DECEMBER, 2015
Gabriel Sierra will feature a new intervention into SculptureCenter’s lower level galleries for his first solo
museum exhibition in New York City. Working with architecture and design, Sierra creates sculptural
frameworks that use narrative as a guiding principle for reconfiguring space and objects.
Sierra (born 1975, San Juan Nepomuceno, Colombia) is based in Bogotá and has had solo exhibitions
at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2015) and Peep Hole in Milan (2013). Recent
group exhibitions include the Carnegie International (2013), The Ungovernables, New Museum
Triennial (2012), and the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011).
NOW SHOWING
Throughout 2015, exact dates to be announced
SculptureCenter will also continue its Now Showing program which highlights a single artwork or project
in areas throughout its building. Working with artists to find new ways of approaching the unique
architecture of SculptureCenter, Now Showing is an exploratory and flexible mode for presenting
artworks and projects to our audiences and thus is programmed with shorter lead-time. Now Showing
projects will be announced as they are confirmed.
About SculptureCenter
Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution in Long Island City, NY
dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture. SculptureCenter
commissions new works and presents exhibitions by emerging and established, national and
international artists. Our programs identify new talent, explore the conceptual, aesthetic and material
concerns of contemporary sculpture, and encourage independent vision.
SculptureCenter's major exhibition and operating support is generously provided by grants from the
National Endowment for the Arts; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with
the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo
and the New York State Legislature; the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc; the Kraus Family Foundation;
the Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation; the Joan Mitchell Foundation; The PollockKrasner Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the A. Woodner Fund; and
contributions from our Board of Trustees. Additional funding provided by the Milton and Sally Avery Arts
Foundation; the A G Foundation; and contributions from many generous individuals. SculptureCenter's
2014/15 exhibition program is underwritten by UOVO Fine Art Storage.
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