 02/10/06 Museum of Arts & Design, New York
Sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life through an approach that balances environmental, social, and aesthetic concerns. Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art is a traveling exhibition that examines some of the ways in which contemporary artists are exploring a socially and environmentally conscientious in other words, sustainable way of living and working. This emerging strategy emphasizes the responsible and equitable use of resources and links environmental and social justice. By doing so, it moves past a prior generation of more narrowly eco-centered or green approaches to architecture and industrial design. Enacted around the world in large and small ways by architects and designers, as well as, a growing numbers of activists, corporations, policymakers, Beyond Green ventures into the fertile new zone of sustainability in the arena of contemporary art. Beyond Green, curated by Stephanie Smith of the Smart Museum of Art, explores the ways in which sustainable design resonates in the work of an emerging generation of international artists hailing from cities in the United States and Europe, including Brooklyn, Chicago, San Francisco, Copenhagen, London, San Juan, and Vienna. The exhibitions thirteen artists and artists groups combine a fresh aesthetic sensibility with a constructively critical approach to the production, dissemination, and display of art. They embed environmental concerns within larger ethical and aesthetic explorations, building paths to new forms of practice that go beyond green. Artists in the exhibition Allora & Calzadilla Free Soil (Amy Franceschini, Myriel Milicevic, Nis Rømer) JAM (Jane Palmer and Marianne Fairbanks) Learning Group (Brett Bloom, Julio Castro, Rikke Luther, and Cecelia Wendt) Brennan McGaffey with Temporary Services (Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, Marc Fischer) Nils Norman People Powered Dan Peterman Marjetica Potrc Michael Rakowitz Frances Whitehead WochenKlausur Andrea Zittel Itinerary Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois October 6, 2005January 15, 2006 Museum of Arts & Design New York, New York February 2, 2006May 7. 2006 University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach Long Beach, California November 1, 2006December 17, 2006 Smith College Museum of Art Northampton, Massachusetts February 2, 2007April 15, 2007 Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Ohio May 5, 2007July 15, 2007 Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University Greencastle, Indiana September 14, 2007December 2, 2007 (Additional venues to be announced) Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art is a traveling exhibition co-organized by the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, and by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York, and circulated by iCI. The exhibition is curated by Stephanie Smith. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue are made possible in part by the Smart Family Foundation; the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation; and iCI Exhibition Partners Kenneth S. Kuchin and F. Bruce Anderson, and Gerrit and Sydie Lansing. Additional support is provided by the Arts Planning Council, the Environmental Studies Program, and the Green Campus Initiative, University of Chicago. The Museum of Arts & Designs presentation of Beyond Green is made possible by Altria, The Evelyn Toll Family Foundation, and other generous donors to the Museum's exhibitions program. Museum of Arts & Design 40 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019 212-956-3535 Open Daily: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Thursdays: 10:00 am - 8:00 pm http://www.madmuseum.org iCI 799 Broadway, Suite 205 New York, NY 10003 212-254-8200 info@ici-exhibitions.org http://www.ici-exhibitions.org Smart Museum of Art University of Chicago 5550 S. Greenwood Ave. Chicago IL 60637 (773) 702-0200 http://www.smartmuseum.uchicago.edu smart-museum@uchicago.edu |
