SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture.
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- Location:
- Long Island City, NY, 11101
- Phone:
- 718.361.1750
- Mon:
- 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Thurs - Sun:
- 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Sunday, November 8 at 5:00pm - The Present Doesn't Exist In M...
The Performance Project @ Universit...
Saturday, November 7 at 1:00pm - The Free Skool at The Universi...
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Monday, May 11 at 11:00am - Summer Sessions: BARR, Silk Fl...
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Saturday, August 1 at 5:00pm - SculptureCenter is accepting f...
http://www.sculpture-center.org/joi...
Friday, July 31 at 1:00pm - The University of Trash hosts:...
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Thursday, May 14 at 6:00pm - Summer Sessions: Real Estate, ...
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Saturday, July 25 at 5:00pm - Summer Session: Zola Jesus, Lu...
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Friday, July 3 at 5:00pm - The University of Trash hosts...
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Sunday, May 17 at 3:00pm - The University of Trash presen...
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Saturday, May 16 at 4:00pm
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Upcoming Exhibitions: January 10 - March 30, 2010
Leopards in the Temple
Lothar Baumgarten, Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Nina Canell, Latifa Echakhch, Aleana Egan, Patrick Hill, Nina Hoffmann, Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder (Das Institut), Lucas Knipscher, Kitty Kraus, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, Lucy Skaer, Kathrin Sonntag
Directions: By Subway
E or V to 23rd/Ely
Exit at front of train at the Citicorp Tower. Turn left onto Jackson Avenue and walk two blocks. Turn right onto Purves Street.
G to Court Square
Exit at front of train at (Court Square / Citicorp Tower). Turn left onto Jackson Avenue and walk two blocks. Turn right onto Purves Street.
7 to 45road/Courthouse Square
Turn left onto Jackson Avenue and walk three blocks. Turn right onto Purves Street.
By Bus from Brooklyn:
take the B61 to the stop at the intersection at Jackson Avenue and Court Square. Walk up Jackson Avenue 3 blocks and turn right onto Purves Street.
By Car
From the Mid-town Tunnel:
Stay to the right in the tunnel. Take the Van Alst exit (which is immediately after the toll booth) to 21st Street. Follow 21st Street 2 blocks to Jackson Avenue. Right on Jackson Avenue about 1/3 mile. Pass Citicorp tower on left and Purves Street is two blocks further on your right (just past Dyke's Lumber). SculptureCenter is halfway down on left side.
From Queensboro/59th Street Bridge:
Take the upper level and follow signs for Jackson Avenue. At the light, turn right onto Thomson Avenue. Turn right on 44th Drive and right on Jackson Avenue. Take first right onto Purves Street. SculptureCenter is halfway down on left side.
From the Triboro Bridge:
Exit at Hoyt Avenue. Continue southbound and turn right on 31st Street. Merge onto northern Boulevard, which turns into Jackson Avenue. Turn right onto Purves Street.
From Long Island/Eastern Queens:
LIE (495) West. Exit at Van Dam Street (the last exit before Midtown Tunnel). Turn right on Van Dam and make a left onto Thomson Avenue. At Jackson Avenue, turn right. Purves Street is the second right.
By Bus
Parking
There is metered street parking available along Jackson Avenue and a public parking garage available 3 blocks away at Court Square.
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Past Exhibition:
08.20.09
Grand Openings
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GRAND OPENINGS
SculptureCenter is pleased to present a new exhibition by Grand Openings, on view September 13-November 30, 2009 with an opening reception on Sunday, September 13 from 5-7pm.
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, singing, painting and critique. They create a mise-en-scène of overlapping actions, loosely defined choreography and chaotic structures with multiple identities and often dissonant iterations.
Readily shifting between a multimedia event, an entertainment, a learning experience, and a kind of disorderly order to be encountered by viewers and participants, the exhibition at SculptureCenter presents a series of unique posters and a limited edition Grand Openings publication. Documenting public performances and privately staged actions, the installation acts both as an archive of the collaborative group's past and a preview or diagram for future scenarios. By also exploring how their performances can take the form of printed matter, Grand Openings continues to challenge the presumed roles of performers, producers, directors, and observers.
Grand Openings has appeared at the Anthology Film Archives as part of Performa05, (New York, 2005), magical Artroom (Tokyo, 2006), Echglo-Tsumari Art Triennial (Nigata, Japan, 2006), MUMOK (Vienna, 2008), the Henry Art Gallery at the Bumbershoot Arts Festival (Seattle, 2008), and Art Basel Statements (Basel, 2009). Their videos have been shown at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Kunsthalle Zürich; and Tbilisi 3 and Tibilisi 4 (Tbilisi, Georgia).
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Past Exhibition: SculptureCenter is pleased to present new works by Jason Kraus, Meredith Nickie, Marlo Pascual, Xaviera Simmons, Marianne Vitale, and Erik Wysocan. 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 to contemporary sculpture. The exhibition will be on view September 13-November 30, 2009, with an opening reception on Sunday, September 13, 5-7pm.
Jason Kraus, Making a Mold, 2009
Making a Mold walls off a twenty-five foot section of the lower level galleries' central corridor and creates two views onto the eponymous action underway. Approached from one end, the viewer encounters an industrial pump apparently filling the space with silicone while the opposite vantage reveals a monitor with a closed-circuit view inside. Playing with notions of the readymade and the fabricated, the realistic and the absurd, Kraus transforms the museum space itself into a model that may or may not exist.
Marlo Pascual, Untitled, 2009
Pascual's sculptures bring together vintage portrait photography and domestic objects with dramatic lighting and sleek armatures to create a series of discrete tableaus wherein actors and actresses from the anonymous past are recast into roles that hover between the glamorous and melancholy.
Meredith Nickie, Reversed Fortune in the Failure of the Visible, 2009
Enlisting the fanciful ornamentation of chinoiserie and baroque design, Meredith Nickie's installation juxtaposes Minimalist tropes-including a direct reference to Sol LeWitt's cube forms, mirrored pedestals, and industrial finishes-with a select array of fetish objects and interior design motifs that recall the history of colonial oppression as well as Nickie's own self-fashioned narrative of postcolonial recovery.
Xaviera Simmons, 3 (Cardboard, Masonite, Twine, Paper, Paint), 2009
Simmons captures a slowly disappearing urban landscape from three different entry points. Having gathered and broken down over a thousand cardboard boxes from city streets, the artist's gleaned materials construct a monochrome wall that stands opposite three panels of collaged photographic images taken while engaged with people and places along her route. Documenting shop signs, buildings, and street scenes, her installation is a meditation through image and text on increasingly obsolescent typographies, sayings, and locales.
Marianne Vitale, Landswab Over Berberis, 2009
Vitale's sculptural practice evokes an idea of the natural world remade from what has been discarded and abandoned, often resulting in make-shift structures and hybrid figurative creatures that can appear both fragile and menacing. For SculptureCenter's courtyard, Vitale has constructed a large-scale sculpture of steel, plaster and fiberglass coated with a copper-color finish and perched atop a sprawling garden of plants and wild grasses. This newest work is part of an ongoing interest in the vernacular, mythological narratives, and the grotesque.
Erik Wysocan, (A thing of only one age) Res unius ætatis, 2009
Samuel Madden's 1733 publication Memoirs of the Twentieth Century-one of the first science-fiction novels and set to take place in the year 1998-serves as the impetus for Erik Wysocan's installation. Wysocan also draws from the letters of Ahcene Zemiri, the so-called "Millenium Bomber" along with Madden's own correspondence with Lord Chesterfield on the nature of time travel and 18th century law. Employing different modes for presenting artifacts and specimens-from lightboxes to a table vitrine and retail display case-Wysocan reconsiders the content of the form in placing the lacunae of history on display.
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Past Exhibition: SculptureCenter is pleased to present new works by Jason Kraus, Meredith Nickie, Marlo Pascual, Xaviera Simmons, Marianne Vitale, and Erik Wysocan. 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 to contemporary sculpture. The exhibition will be on view September 13-November 30, 2009, with an opening reception on Sunday, September 13, 5-7pm.
Jason Kraus, Making a Mold, 2009
Making a Mold walls off a twenty-five foot section of the lower level galleries' central corridor and creates two views onto the eponymous action underway. Approached from one end, the viewer encounters an industrial pump apparently filling the space with silicone while the opposite vantage reveals a monitor with a closed-circuit view inside. Playing with notions of the readymade and the fabricated, the realistic and the absurd, Kraus transforms the museum space itself into a model that may or may not exist.
Marlo Pascual, Untitled, 2009
Pascual's sculptures bring together vintage portrait photography and domestic objects with dramatic lighting and sleek armatures to create a series of discrete tableaus wherein actors and actresses from the anonymous past are recast into roles that hover between the glamorous and melancholy.
Meredith Nickie, Reversed Fortune in the Failure of the Visible, 2009
Enlisting the fanciful ornamentation of chinoiserie and baroque design, Meredith Nickie's installation juxtaposes Minimalist tropes-including a direct reference to Sol LeWitt's cube forms, mirrored pedestals, and industrial finishes-with a select array of fetish objects and interior design motifs that recall the history of colonial oppression as well as Nickie's own self-fashioned narrative of postcolonial recovery.
Xaviera Simmons, 3 (Cardboard, Masonite, Twine, Paper, Paint), 2009
Simmons captures a slowly disappearing urban landscape from three different entry points. Having gathered and broken down over a thousand cardboard boxes from city streets, the artist's gleaned materials construct a monochrome wall that stands opposite three panels of collaged photographic images taken while engaged with people and places along her route. Documenting shop signs, buildings, and street scenes, her installation is a meditation through image and text on increasingly obsolescent typographies, sayings, and locales.
Marianne Vitale, Landswab Over Berberis, 2009
Vitale's sculptural practice evokes an idea of the natural world remade from what has been discarded and abandoned, often resulting in make-shift structures and hybrid figurative creatures that can appear both fragile and menacing. For SculptureCenter's courtyard, Vitale has constructed a large-scale sculpture of steel, plaster and fiberglass coated with a copper-color finish and perched atop a sprawling garden of plants and wild grasses. This newest work is part of an ongoing interest in the vernacular, mythological narratives, and the grotesque.
Erik Wysocan, (A thing of only one age) Res unius ætatis, 2009
Samuel Madden's 1733 publication Memoirs of the Twentieth Century-one of the first science-fiction novels and set to take place in the year 1998-serves as the impetus for Erik Wysocan's installation. Wysocan also draws from the letters of Ahcene Zemiri, the so-called "Millenium Bomber" along with Madden's own correspondence with Lord Chesterfield on the nature of time travel and 18th century law. Employing different modes for presenting artifacts and specimens-from lightboxes to a table vitrine and retail display case-Wysocan reconsiders the content of the form in placing the lacunae of history on display.
SculptureCenter updated its Extended Info.
Upcoming Exhibitions has been created and includes January 10 - March 30, 2010
Leopards in the Temple
Lothar Baumgarten, Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Nina Canell, Latifa Echakhch, Aleana Egan, Patrick Hill, Nina Hoffmann, Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder (Das Institut), Lu...cas Knipscher, Kitty Kraus, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, Lucy Skaer, Kathrin Sonntag
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Directions has been created and includes By Subway E or V to 23rd/Ely Exit at front of train at the Citicorp Tower. Turn left onto Jackson Avenue and walk two blocks. Turn right onto Purves Street. G to Court Square Exit at front of train at (Court Square / Citicorp Tower). Turn left onto Jackson Avenue and walk two blocks. Turn right onto Purves Street. 7 to 45road/Courthouse Square Turn left onto Jackson Avenue and walk three blocks. Turn right onto Purves Street. By Bus from Brooklyn: take the B61 to the stop at the intersection at Jackson Avenue and Court Square. Walk up Jackson Avenue 3 blocks and turn right onto Purves Street. By Car From the Mid-town Tunnel: Stay to the right in the tunnel. Take the Van Alst exit (which is immediately after the toll booth) to 21st Street. Follow 21st Street 2 blocks to Jackson Avenue. Right on Jackson Avenue about 1/3 mile. Pass Citicorp tower on left and Purves Street is two blocks further on your right (just past Dyke's Lumber). SculptureCenter is halfway down on left side. From Queensboro/59th Street Bridge: Take the upper level and follow signs for Jackson Avenue. At the light, turn right onto Thomson Avenue. Turn right on 44th Drive and right on Jackson Avenue. Take first right onto Purves Street. SculptureCenter is halfway down on left side. From the Triboro Bridge: Exit at Hoyt Avenue. Continue southbound and turn right on 31st Street. Merge onto northern Boulevard, which turns into Jackson Avenue. Turn right onto Purves Street. From Long Island/Eastern Queens: LIE (495) West. Exit at Van Dam Street (the last exit before Midtown Tunnel). Turn right on Van Dam and make a left onto Thomson Avenue. At Jackson Avenue, turn right. Purves Street is the second right. By Bus Parking There is metered street parking available along Jackson Avenue and a public parking garage available 3 blocks away at Court Square. .
See MoreDirections has been created and includes By Subway E or V to 23rd/Ely Exit at front of train at the Citicorp Tower. Turn left onto Jackson Avenue and walk two blocks. Turn right onto Purves Street. G to Court Square Exit at front of train at (Court Square / Citicorp Tower). Turn left onto Jackson Avenue and walk two blocks. Turn right onto Purves Street. 7 to 45road/Courthouse Square Turn left onto Jackson Avenue and walk three blocks. Turn right onto Purves Street. By Bus from Brooklyn: take the B61 to the stop at the intersection at Jackson Avenue and Court Square. Walk up Jackson Avenue 3 blocks and turn right onto Purves Street. By Car From the Mid-town Tunnel: Stay to the right in the tunnel. Take the Van Alst exit (which is immediately after the toll booth) to 21st Street. Follow 21st Street 2 blocks to Jackson Avenue. Right on Jackson Avenue about 1/3 mile. Pass Citicorp tower on left and Purves Street is two blocks further on your right (just past Dyke's Lumber). SculptureCenter is halfway down on left side. From Queensboro/59th Street Bridge: Take the upper level and follow signs for Jackson Avenue. At the light, turn right onto Thomson Avenue. Turn right on 44th Drive and right on Jackson Avenue. Take first right onto Purves Street. SculptureCenter is halfway down on left side. From the Triboro Bridge: Exit at Hoyt Avenue. Continue southbound and turn right on 31st Street. Merge onto northern Boulevard, which turns into Jackson Avenue. Turn right onto Purves Street. From Long Island/Eastern Queens: LIE (495) West. Exit at Van Dam Street (the last exit before Midtown Tunnel). Turn right on Van Dam and make a left onto Thomson Avenue. At Jackson Avenue, turn right. Purves Street is the second right. By Bus Parking There is metered street parking available along Jackson Avenue and a public parking garage available 3 blocks away at Court Square. .
SculptureCenter This winter, SculptureCenter will present "Leopards in the Temple", a group exhibition curated by Fionn Meade. January 10, 2010 from 5-7pm. Artists: LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN, STRAUSS BOURQUE-LAFRANCE, KERSTIN BRÄTSCH AND ADELE RÖDER (DAS INSTITUT), NINA CANELL, ALEANA EGAN, LATIFA ECHAKHCH, JOÃO MARIA GUSMÃO AND PEDRO PAIV...A, PATRICK HILL, NINA HOFFMANN, LUCAS KNIPSCHER, KITTY KRAUS, LUCY SKAER, AND KATHRIN SONNTAG
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Malcolm Stuart's hoop dance troupe, Color Wheel and friends, perform in the round with Baby IKKI, within Mike Kelley and Michael Smith's video installation.
This performance is presented in conjunction with Performa 09.
Admission to this event is free.
A Performance by Baby IKKI and Malcolm Stuart's hoop dance troupe, Color Wheel
Time:5:00PM Sunday, November 8th
Location:SculptureCenter
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A performance inspired by the writings of Valentine de Saint Point and Mina Loy that reflects on lust, romanticized sexuality, and the subjugation of women.
Composers Pete Drungle and Brian Bender. Motion graphics Brian Close. Costumes Lise Klitten.
Admission to this event is free.
Presented by SculptureCenter in co...njunction with Performa 09. Supported by the Danish Arts Council.
Image: Ego Song, courtesy of Jesper Jon Soerensen, 2006.
A Performance by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
Time:1:00PM Saturday, November 7th
Location:The Performance Project @ University Settlement
SculptureCenter If you're in LIC for the NY Art Book Fair this weekend, stop by SculptureCenter to see our Fall shows!
SculptureCenter This Saturday is Museum Day! Free Admission at SculptureCenter. Fill out a Museum Day Admission Card at http://bit.ly/holuR
SculptureCenter Voyage of Growth and Discovery review in today's NYTimes
Art Review - Michael Smith and Mike Kelley - Michael Smith and Mike Kelley’s Baby Ikki Collaboration
www.nytimes.com
“A Voyage of Growth and Discovery,” a wonderfully entertaining and slyly thought-provoking installation at the SculptureCenter, targets Burning Man.
SculptureCenter Fall Shows now open! "A Voyage of Growth and Discovery" http://tiny.cc/yGxqj "Grand Openings" http://tiny.cc/kofT8 "In Practice" http://tiny.cc/Ewm2d
Time:1:00PM Friday, July 31st
SculptureCenter AUGUST 1st! Summer Sessions: BARR, Silk Flowers, Love Tan Join us on the University of Trash stage for the final show in our inaugural summer concert series. Tickets are $7, beer will be available for $3. Click through the link for more information.
Location:SculptureCenter
Time:5:00PM Saturday, August 1st
SculptureCenter TONIGHT! Real Estate, Little Claw, Religious Knives, Gary War at SculptureCenter! $7 admission, $3 beers. Click through for directions and more information:
Location:SculptureCenter
Time:5:00PM Saturday, July 25th
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