“The Socrates Annual 2019” Exhibition

Socrates Sculpture Park

poster for “The Socrates Annual 2019” Exhibition
[Image: Gabriela Salazar "Access Grove, Soft Stand" (2019)]

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Each fall Socrates presents an exhibition of new commissions made by artists awarded the Park’s Socrates Annual Fellowship. Produced on-site in our outdoor studio over the course of the summer, these artworks engage the Park’s unique history, landscape, and surrounding community.

For the 2019 exhibition, projects range from a soundscape conflating the sounds of animals and man-made objects to a monument to the invasive Ailanthus plant. Approaches vary among collaborative investigations of authorship and visibility, the re-contextualization of domestic motifs, and the examination of biological material, among many others.

Ranging from fantastical to anecdotal to pedagogical, this year’s artists use a variety of narrative strategies. Several artist projects examine storytelling’s many material manifestations, from an homage to a Native American myth in which North America exists on a turtle’s back to a suggestion that a giant has fallen asleep under the Park’s blanket of grass, its exposed nose becoming refuge for a wandering monitor lizard.

2019 Artist Fellows:
Jesus Benavente
Tecumseh Ceaser (Native Tec)
Martina Onyemaechi Crouch-Anyarogbu (MOCA)
Rachelle Dang
Chris Domenick
Hadi Fallahpisheh
Jes Fan
Hadrien Gérenton & Loup Sarion
Paul Kopkau
Alva Mooses
Marius Ritiu
Martin Roth
Gabriela Salazar
Lucia Thomé
Workers Art Coalition (WAC)

The opening festivities will include a dance performance by Sandra Soto at 4:30pm, programmed by Artist Fellow Alva Mooses for her piece Se entra bailando. Delicious Colombian food will also be available for purchase on-site from vendor My Carretta.

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Schedule

from October 05, 2019 to March 18, 2020

Opening Reception on 2019-10-05 from 16:00 to 18:00

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