The exhibition FIGURES FROM THE NEW WORLD, opening for public on the same day at 7 pm at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, will extend its present collection of contemporary figurative sculptures with the works of artists recognised world-wide and working in the US, i.e. David Altmejd, Huma Bhabha, Aaron Curry, Ohad Meromi, Thomas Houseago. They create large, traditionally understood sculptures, for which they use lo-fi materials, such as plaster, plywood and concrete, or even recycled industrial waste. While the 21-century art is dominated by conceptual strategies and the artistic language by multimedia, their massive figures resembling ritual totems might pass for an artistic novelty. 

Please visit the website Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle for more information.

April 25, 6:30-9p, “Night in Conversation”: Join participating artists and curators, moderated by Dr. Ella Diaz (Visiting Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, SFAI), as we explore their various processes and motives, in so doing, their relationship to the conceptual line of the exhibition― identity explored through documentation. FREE admission. RSVP requested by April 18. 415.643.2775 or galleryasst@missionculturalcenter.org

Playing House

 

Thursday, March 1, 2012

6:30-8:30 p.m.

Brooklyn Museum

 

Playing House is the first in a series of activations that aim to engage visitors with the Brooklyn Museum’s period rooms.  Artists Betty Woodman, Anne Chu, Ann Agee, and Mary Lucier have been invited to place site-specific artwork in eight of the Museum’s historic rooms, which have been interpreted by curators over the years to illustrate how Americans of various times, economic levels, and locations lived.

 

On view February 24 - August 26, 2012

Period Rooms, 4th Floor

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/playing_house/