"Excavations" Exhibition
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
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Senior & Shopmaker Gallery presenst the exhibition Excavations: Alice Aycock, Mary Miss, Charles Simonds. The exhibition includes drawings, photographs, and sculpture by three internationally known artists who have created site-specific sculpture since the 1970s. Excavations continues the gallery’s ongoing program of thematic exhibitions that highlight correspondences among artists working in diverse media.
After being labeled as “site” artists by Rosalind Krauss in her well-known essay, Sculpture in the Expanded Field, 1979, Aycock, Miss, and Simonds subsequently became associated with movements ranging from post-minimalism and conceptual art to Earth Art and architecture. Today, however, they are probably best known as figures in the field of ‘public art’. Rarely exhibited in conventional gallery settings, their works can be encountered in public parks, plazas, or buildings where they are exposed to both the art-informed viewer and the general public. Each artist, in very different ways, makes the spectator and the spectator’s participation and response integral to their work.
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Schedule
from May 14, 2008 to June 27, 2008