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Storm King Art Center Announces Arlene Shechet: Girl Group
Storm King Art Center has announced Arlene Shechet: Girl Group, the most ambitious exhibition yet of Arlene Shechet’s outdoor sculpture, and the first to pair this body of work with her iconic indoor ceramics. The exhibition will debut six new large-scale commissions—spanning heights of ten to twenty feet and lengths of up to thirty feet—along with complementary indoor works in wood, steel, and ceramic. Shechet’s Girl Group responds to and expands upon the legacy and techniques of post-war and contemporary sculpture at Storm King through the artist’s signature emphasis on process, color, and form.
“The idea of a Girl Group is that each sculpture functions alone - as a solo - and as a member of an ensemble”
The sculptor’s exhibition Girl Group is featured in The New York Times’
“The T List.”
In Episode Four: On Studios, Wagstaff talks with Arlene Shechet, exploring how central the place and space of making is to Shechet’s work, as well as the significance of the studio in the realm of creativity.
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“Some of the awful places I’ve had to work could have buried me, but in my mind, I was able to go anywhere.”
The sculptor talks about her Hudson Valley studio and her fascination with the unknowable history of familiar objects.
Sheena Wagstaff will curate Studio, a new section that explores the role of workspace in the creative practice, featuring five artists: Arlene Shechet, Maggi Hambling, Mona Hatoum, Lucia Laguna, and Hung-Sook Song.
Wagstaff explains: ‘The focus of Studio is the artist’s place of making, where the spark of invention becomes manifest as an object. Studio starts with the living artist: all five featured artists dig deep into past cultures for historical points of reference to inform and reinvigorate their practice. Each Studio comprises the scope of an artist’s singular oeuvre to evidence its cyclical nature, distinguished by the vigour and creative maturity to embrace risk-taking to reach deeper meaning. Collectively, the projects utilize a broad range of materials including steel, tempera, clay, acrylic, porcelain, paper and hair, often taking them into the realm of the unexpected.
‘For any creative individual, the studio is where time-past flows into time-future. Integral to each Studio booth is a display of archival images and objects, accumulated over decades in an artist’s workroom, imbued with personal narrative and value, invoking their creative lifeline. Often surprising, they offer clues to the artists’ vision, and are witness to the spirit of the studio as an ever-changing, living space. Studio hopes to shift cultural understanding of objects from the past and the importance of thinking historically in the present. To understand that historical art is an active agent in contemporary culture begins with artists themselves.’
On May 24, 2023, Arlene Shechet, along with Huma Bhabha, Yvonne Rainer, Shirin Neshat, were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
On the occasion of Arlene Shechet: Next Sentence at Pace Gallery Palm Beach, Shechet joined Laura Hoptman, Director of the Drawing Center New York, for a talk hosted at The Bunker Artspace in West Palm Beach.
A conversation between artists Woody De Othello and Arlene Shechet as they discuss their influences and wide-ranging artistic practices presented by Karma Gallery.
Watch Guston’s Legacy
In the Studio with Mark Thomas Gibson
and Arlene Shechet
Museum of Fine Arts Boston