It might be the best gallery you’ve never visited.
SculptureCenter is NYC’s only contemporary art museum dedicated primarily to sculpture. Located in a cavernous converted trolley repair shop in Long Island City, the venue specializes in emerging international talent.
Recently, SculptureCenter unveiled some great new exhibitions that will be on display until Dec. 11…So hurry!
This installation mixes large blocks of stone, a rewired lighting sensor system, and plantings. Mallet studies the biological and technological life cycles of materials. She builds forms and systems that reconfigure architectures, proposing sculpture as a revelatory experience of space.
Tania Pérez Córdova: Generalization
Pérez Córdova, who is from Mexico, debuts in a United States institution with this piece, which features 24 works made over the past 10 years, as well as objects specially commissioned for the occasion. Pérez Córdova’s work often addresses the passage of time, the nature of materials, the gaze of the other, the imminence or possibility of an action, the way in which humans assign value to objects, negative space, and more recently, the insufficiency of discourse.
Julian Abraham “Togar”: Too good to be OK
This work builds upon the multi-disciplinary Indonesian artist’s long term work with sound, ranging from percussive signals in urban spaces to shared communication through music, bands, and jamming.
This assemblage engages found object traditions, drawing out a balance between artistic intervention and raw material. Mays favors items ranging from excavated concrete to tree branches, feathers, dirt, steel beams, and light fixtures, with the same eroding materials sometimes staged and re-staged across exhibitions.
SculptureCenter was founded in 1928 as The Clay Club in Brooklyn. Over the following years, it changed its name, moved to a carriage house on West 8th Street in Manhattan, and relocated to another carriage house on East 69th Street. In 2001, the nonprofit purchased its present site at 44-19 Purves St. Maya Lin, the landscape artist who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., then redesigned it.
In 2014, the museum finished a major, multi-million-dollar renovation that added a bookshop, coatroom, seating area, and restrooms to 6,500 square feet of unique exhibition spaces on two levels. The venue also has a 1,500-square-foot, enclosed courtyard for outdoor exhibitions.
Images: SculptureCenter