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Artist Abigail Lucien spoke with BmoreArt about their installation at SculptureCenter, titled in ‘Holding Your Name Like Butter in Your Palm,’ on view through August 2 as part of ‘In Practice: You may go, but this will bring you back.’ The act of hand carving a name is a way of meditation on loss, Lucien says. The gesture is symbolic of a prayer one might cast for care or protection over a loved one. The installation’s essence is to be reflective and restorative, making a ...statement of the importance of valuing Black life within and outside of the context of an art institution. While visitors cannot touch the piece and feel it melting with their own body heat, the smell of the cocoa butter is still extremely evocative, leaving the viewer to make their own associations with the lubricant which is often applied directly to the body as a gesture of care. Read more and book your visit to SculptureCenter online.

On 'Coeval Proposition #1: Tear down so as to make flat with the Ground or The *Trans America Building DISMANTLE EVERYTHING,' Alicia Ajayi for Art in America writes: "Along with the work’s title, these material details suggest a new type of monument meant to be deconstructed and rebuilt over time, unlike traditional monoliths...The artist’s clever reassignment of celebrated structures makes space for those long excluded from societal norms by fitting new forms of power into the country’s horizon." On view through August 2 as part of 'Rindon Johnson: Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies.' Book your reservation online.

"As she digs deeper into how her identity both shapes and is shaped by the world, Cuyjet seems to be the kind of choreographer whose works, once unleashed, will continue to grow and morph." Leslie Cuyjet's Blur is set to debut at The Shed's Open Call series this week and you can visit her video installation at SculptureCenter through August 2.

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"Poetry and sculpture are similar that way. To understand a poem, you have to remember what came before, and to understand sculpture, you have to remember the parts you can’t see. " Read more from artist Rindon Johnson's conversation with Travis Diehl for Artforum. And visit sculpture-center.org to book your reservation to visit 'Rindon Johnson: Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies'

In Practice Open Call: Now Accepting Curatorial Fellow Applications and Artist Proposals Since 2003, In Practice has provided more than 200 artists with the essential resources of space, funding, time, curatorial support, and administrative guidance to help turn their ideas into reality. SculptureCenter is now accepting Curatorial Fellow applications [deadline June 10] and Artist Proposals [deadline July 15] for the 2022 exhibition. For more information regarding application instructions, selection criteria, our review process, and timeline, please visit us online.

‘Rindon Johnson: Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies' and 'In Practice: You may go, but this will bring you back' are now open! The exhibition are on view through August 2, 2021, Thursday-Monday, 12-6pm. Reservations are requiredmake yours at www.sculpture-center.org

Rindon Johnson: Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies, installation view, SculptureCenter, New York, 2021. Photo: Kyle Knodell

Available now for pre-order: 'The Law of Large Numbers' is a publication with original writings by artist Rindon Johnson that accompanies his upcoming exhibitions at SculptureCenter and Chisenhale Gallery, London. Johson's SculptureCenter exhibition, 'Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies,' opens on Thursday, March 25. While you wait, enjoy an excerpt of the publication, available now for free on our website.

"My concerns in the work were about the body and technology; it was very simple. All of my work is really an effort to come up with something that would convey this paradigm that I felt would become very influential, that would have a huge impact on our reality, and that I was already seeing happening in much simpler ways." Read the full conversation between Tishan Hsu and Martha Schwendener online and in print in the current issue of The Brooklyn Rail.

Available in print and online: Jesse Wine in conversation with Kathy Noble at Mousse to discuss his recent exhibitions'Imperfect List' at SculptureCenter and 'The Players' at Simone Subal Gallery.

NYC DOT is hosting virtual workshops to discuss public space and street improvements for the Court Square neighborhood in Long Island City, Queens. Join one of the public workshops to hear about potential projects and share your input. Public Workshops Dates, Time, and Registration Links:... Wednesday, February 3rd at 6:30pm https://bit.ly/39tS1Fo Thursday, February 4th at 12:00pm https://bit.ly/3byuoxQ

SculptureCenter is closed for installation. SC will reopen on March 25 with Rindon Johnson's first solo museum exhibition and the 2021 In Practice exhibition. In the meantime, visit us online for resources you can enjoy from home.

Cassie Packard interviewed artist Jesse Wine about his current exhibitions at SculptureCenter and Simone Subal Gallery, feeling stalled, and encountering sculptures on their own terms. Read their conversation here and make a reservation to visit his exhibition at SculptureCenter, ' Imperfect List,' on view through January 25.

Last month we reopened with a large-scale survey of works by Tishan Hsu that have not been on public view for more than thirty years as well as a brand new body of sculpture from Jesse Wine, each on view through January 25. On the horizon for the winter: a solo show of new commissions by Rindon Johnson and In Practice, our annual open call. Now more than ever, we need the support of our community in order to continue our programs through the winter. We pride ourself on trust...ing artists and going as far as we can to make sure they are supported in their thinking, in their making, and in all of the energy their critical artistic work brings to public life in New York City and beyond. SC’s Annual Fund makes it possible for us to offer these critical resources to artists. Please consider making a gift of $200 or more today, and you can mask up with your own limited edition Sanford Biggers face mask.

'Tishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit' is on view at SculptureCenter through January 25, 2021. Book a reservation through our website and "tune in."

Artists to lead SculptureCenter's Board of Trustees: Carol Bove as Chair of the Board of Trustees, Sanford Biggers as President, and Leslie Hewitt elected to the Board. SculptureCenter is pleased to announce that artists Carol Bove and Sanford Biggers two long-standing Trustees have been appointed to lead the Board of the museum and that artist Leslie Hewitt has been elected as a new Trustee. Hewitt joins Bove, Biggers, and fellow artists Adam McEwen and Fred Wilson on th...e Board’s Artist Committee. SculptureCenter was founded by artists in 1928 and with these appointments, SC’s Board of Trustees celebrates a foundational principle that the perspective of artists is integral to the success of the institution. Visit the link here for the full announcement: http://www.sculpture-center.org//201020_SC_PR_BoardAnnounc Photos: Carol Bove, Photo: Jason Schmidt / Sanford Biggers, Photo: Matthew Morrocco / Leslie Hewitt, Photo: Richard Renaldi

Catherine Damman for 4Columns on Tishan Hsu’s SculptureCenter exhibition: an overview of the artist’s compelling, unnerving work. Read more and make a reservation to visit the exhibition, on view through January 25.

Register now to join us on Zoom Saturday, October 10, 6-7pm Book Launch: Matt Keegan’s 1996 Matt Keegan’s '1996' captures a pivotal time in American politics and society through the experience of artists who completed their undergraduate studies in that year, and others who were born in 1996 and voted for the first time in 2016. A wide-ranging set of essays and interviews focus on cultural and ideological shifts from that time, revisiting the 1994 Crime Bill, 1996 Immigration... Act, the Telecommunications Act, the start of Fox News and beyond. This event begins with a screening of My Barbarian’s 'Counterpublicity,' based on an essay by José Esteban Muñoz reprinted in '1996,' followed by readings by Keegan, Dave McKenzie, Debbie Nathan, Dale Corvino, and Michael Bullock. Learn more and register: http://www.sculpture-center.org//book-launch-matt-keegan-s

PLAN YOUR VOTE is a 2020 artist initiative to promote and empower citizens to exercise their right to vote. Today you should: Register if you haven’t already. Verify your registration if you have any doubt. Check your absentee status if you aren’t sure. Set a reminder in case you forget. Let’s "bend the voting curve by getting friends and family to do the same. Video: Jenny Holzer Visit www.PlanYourVote.org for more info.

His first U.S.-based museum show, Imperfect List, has opened at SculptureCenter in Long Island City following its spring pandemic postponement. In the interim, Wine has continued to produce work, and by doing so has discovered unexpected nuance within his large ceramic sculptures. The works took shape from an exploration of two initial overarching ideas: what it means to be idle, and how an increasing lack of sleep relates to the proliferation of capitalism. Read more:

It’s opening day at SculptureCenter! ‘Tishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit’ and ‘Jesse Wine: Imperfect List’ are on view through January 25, 2021. Thessaly La Force shared about ‘Imperfect List,’ There is much to admire in Wine’s ability to harness complex thoughts and quiet observations into gestures and figures that seem born from a more subconscious space.... Book your reservation and plan your visit through our website.

Our Kyle Dancewicz shared, As we’ve geared up to reopen SculptureCenter with two major new exhibitions by Tishan Hsu and Jesse Wine, both of which were rescheduled from early May, each day spent in the museum has only confirmed how critical it is to make space for the way artists see and think about the world. The weird clarity of art objects feels amazing right now. That so many artists have recognized SculptureCenter and these other organizations’ roles in supporting their work and contributing to a greater art ecosystem is incredibly humbling. Hauser & Wirth's Artists for New York sale to benefit visual art nonprofits in New York City will launch online on October 1 and run through October 22, accompanied by a display of a portion of the work at the gallery’s Chelsea location.

SculptureCenter reopens in one week, on Thursday, September 24. Advance registration is required. Visit the link below to make your reservation now and get up-to-date with our visitor policies. Register now: https://www.sculpture-center.org//admission-and-accessibil... Image: Sneak peek view of ‘Tishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit’

PLAN YOUR VOTE brings together our creative community to offer all the voting resources you need to exercise your rights. Now, more than ever, it's urgent to PLAN YOUR VOTE. Today you should: Register if you haven’t already. Verify your registration if you have any doubt. Check your absentee status if you aren’t sure. Set a reminder in case you forget. Link in BIO or go to PlanYourVote.org. @PlanYourVote @burrtomburr #PlanYourVote #TomBurr #VoteDotOrg #Vote #VoteReady #Vote2020