Storm King Art Center, the 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley where visitors experience large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under open sky, opens to the public tomorrow, May 7. Complementing the permanent displays this year are 4 new special exhibitions and installations.
Photo by Jeffrey Jenkins
Kevin Beasley: PROSCENIUM | Rebirth / Growth: The Watch / Harvest / Dormancy: On Reflection
This new site-specific installation by New York City-based artist Kevin Beasley will encompass the viewer in a panoramic experience set within nature. Comprised of a series of large-scale resin slabs — four triptychs measuring 100 feet long — the exhibition marks his largest sculptural installation to date. It is the first to be presented in Tippet’s Field, Storm King’s new four-acre landscape reclaimed from a former parking lot in the heart of the site. By embedding clothing, fabric, plants, and other materials into the work, Beasley synthesizes complex and layered histories of the landscape into a three-dimensional composition. A freestanding sculptural environment, the work will function as a landscape unto itself.
Photo by Jacob Vitale
Sonia Gomes: Ó Abre Alas!
Ó Abre Alas! is the first solo institutional exhibition of celebrated Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes. Gomes’s intensely tactile sculptural works merge found objects, textiles, and organic materials, drawing upon Afro-Brazilian traditions and the artist’s personal history. For the exhibition, Gomes will present her first site-specific outdoor installation, in which sculptures rich with color and rhythm are suspended from the branches of a tree on Storm King’s Museum Hill. Inside the galleries, a survey of sculptural works spanning the artist’s career will reflect the depth and evolution of her creative practice.
Photo by Jeffrey Jenkins
Outlooks: Dionne Lee
between the falling leaf and the surface of rock is a new site-specific installation by Dionne Lee, and the artist’s first outdoor sculptures. Lee manipulates photographic conventions as a means of reframing our relationship with nature. Using stones sourced from Storm King’s landscape, the artist will coat each with a cyanotype chemistry, which, when exposed to the sun, will turn shades of deep blue. Outlooks: Dionne Lee is the eleventh edition of Storm King’s Outlooks program, which offers emerging and mid-career artists the opportunity to present a temporary large-scale project outdoors.
Photo by Jeffrey Jenkins
Ellsworth Kelly: Untitled, 1982, and Untitled, 1996
Ellsworth Kelly distilled his observations into precise shapes, creating an abstract visual language rooted in reality. Comprising of three distinct aluminum elements, Untitled (1982) features a repertoire of shapes that can be seen throughout the artist’s body of work. “My paintings don’t represent objects,” Kelly once said. “They are objects themselves and fragmented perceptions of things.” The near two-dimensionality of Untitled belies the fact that each element is placed within a dynamic arrangement, revealing a shifting perspective as one moves around the work.
See the full exhibition details, plus visiting information, here.
Photography courtesy of Storm King Art Center.
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