SculptureCenter Of LIC Announces Their Fall Openings

Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture. SculptureCenter commissions new work and presents exhibits by emerging and established, national and International Artists.

SculptureCenter
44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City
718.361.1750
www.sculpture-center.org

Fall Exhibitions Opening
Sunday, September 12, 5-7pm
Please join us on Sunday, September 12 to celebrate the opening of SculptureCenter's Fall Exhibitions on view September 13 - November 29, 2010.

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 -- all of which have been present in Schnitger's past work -- will converge in an installation that will transform the SculptureCenter's central exhibition hall. The structure of the work is reminiscent of a medieval piazza or even a cathedral where adulation, commerce, and politics occupy the same space. The installation is populated by figurative forms that suggest demons, ghosts, businessmen, bikers and other more abstract forms. 

Lovett/Codagnone with 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 that explores role-playing, the ways power is encoded in specific social behaviors and how language constructs and confines identity. The sound piece for the installation is by CANDIDATE, Lovett/Codagnone's band, and uses text and other sound to create a spatial soundscape. The work references cinematic and theatrical texts such as Peter Handke's "Offending the Audience" (1966), a landmark work in that it rejects illusion and makes the experience of the theater the subject of the work.

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 on paper and sculptures extends this tension into three dimensions as found objects, natural artifacts, and studio detritus. These themes join with painterly technique to form a series of precarious assemblages.

In Practice
Justin Matherly, Lior Shvil, Josh Tonsfeldt, Viola Yesiltac
In Practice is an ongoing project series designed to support the creation of innovative work by emerging artists.

Opening Event for SculptureCenter Members
3:30pm - Members-Only Exhibition Preview
Join Executive Director Mary Ceruti and Curator Fionn Meade and the artists on exclusive preview of the Fall Exhibitions. RSVP to john@sculpture-center.org.

Not a member? Call John Emison at 718.361.1750 or go online to www.sculpture-center.org to join.

Upcoming Members Events

Ursula von Rydingsvard Studio Visit
Saturday, November 13, 11am
An intimate visit and conversation with Ursula von Rydingsvard in her expansive Brooklyn studio. Von Rydingsvard is best known for creating large-scale, often monumental sculpture from cedar beams, which she painstakingly cuts, assembles, glues, clamps, and laminates, finally rubbing powdered graphite into the work's textured, faceted surfaces. This visit precedes her major traveling exhibition Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture, 1991 - 2000 opening at SculptureCenter on January 23, 2011. Space is limited and we anticipate this event to fill quickly, so please reserve your spot early by calling John Emison at 718.361.1750 or via email at john@sculpture-center.org.

Please visit www.sculpture-center.org for complete information on exhibitions and events.

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