Fall 2023

Tania Pérez Córdova: Generalization
September 23–December 11, 2023

Generalization is the first survey of artist Tania Pérez Córdova in a US institution, featuring a selection of twenty-four works made over the past ten years, as well as objects specially commissioned for this occasion. The exhibition presents a reading of Pérez Córdova’s work through issues that her artistic endeavors have sought to address: the passage of time, the nature of materials, the gaze of the other, the imminence or possibility of an action, the way in which we assign value to objects, negative space, and more recently, the insufficiency of discourse. Generalization is the artist’s most significant and comprehensive exhibition in the US to date, providing audiences with a first opportunity to survey the breadth and depth of Pérez Córdova’s idiosyncratic and innovative works. Generalization is organized by Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, and is curated by Humberto Moro, Deputy Director of Program, Dia Art Foundation. November 4: In Other News performance and book launch

Julian Abraham “Togar”: Too good to be OK
September 23–December 11, 2023

Julian Abraham “Togar”: Too good to be OK continues and builds upon Julian Abraham “Togar”’s long term work with sound, ranging from percussive signals in urban spaces to shared communication through music, bands, and jamming. Sound has been both a central medium in Togar’s individual practice and a feature of his socially-directed and collaborative projects. With newly-commissioned and extant musical instruments, audio works, kinetic sculptures, video, painting, and live events, Too good to be OK is Togar’s experiment with the “ongoing-ness” of his expansive form of artmaking and the potential of new shared acoustic spaces. Too good to be OK is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a US institution. Live programming updates here: OK Studio - Running Schedule

In Practice: Marina Xenofontos
September 23–October 23, 2023

Marina Xenofontos is a sculptor whose work has spanned found objects, kinetic sculptures, writing, and film. Her practice examines the material and personal manifestations of ideology and knowledge. She views political narratives through an intimate gaze, where the malfunctions in their workings become discernible, affirming them as breeding grounds for both critique and invention. Her new video-based work uses archival footage documenting instances of the “Lemon Dance,” a dance competition carried over by refugees and migrants from Cyprus to the United Kingdom and the United States. Xenofontos pairs this montage with monobloc chairs cast off from production lines and new site-specific works with copper cylinders that rotate slowly on their axes. Across these elements, Xenofontos’s sculpture looks at forms of locality persisting abroad, as well as near-universal forms, generating a churning sense of proximity, distance, and withdrawal.

In Practice: Devin T. Mays
September 23–December 11, 2023

Devin T. Mays makes work through ongoing encounters with objects and fragments ranging from excavated concrete to tree branches, feathers, dirt, steel beams, and light fixtures, with the same eroding materials sometimes staged and re-staged across exhibitions. Mays’ sculpture engages found object traditions with a subtly revelatory tone, drawing out a balance between artistic intervention and raw material.

In Practice: Isabel Mallet
November 2–December 11, 2023

Isabel Mallet studies the biological and technological life cycles of materials. She builds forms and systems that reconfigure given architectures, proposing sculpture as a revelatory experience of space. Her new work for SculptureCenter includes large blocks of stone, a rewired lighting sensor system, and plantings.

Support
Generous support for Tania Pérez Córdova: Generalization is provided by Girlfriend Fund. Special thanks to Tina Kim Gallery, New York.

Generous support for Julian Abraham “Togar”: Too good to be OK is provided by Natasha Sidharta.

In Practice 2023 is made possible by the generosity of the Elaine Graham Weitzen Foundation for Fine Arts. 

Major support for the In Practice program is provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The In Practice program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Leadership support for SculptureCenter’s exhibitions and programs is provided by Carol Bove, Barbara and Andrew Gundlach, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Jill and Peter Kraus, and Teiger Foundation. Major support is provided by the Marguerite Steed Hoffman Donor Advised Fund at The Dallas Foundation, Karyn Kohl, Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins, Eleanor Heyman Propp, and Jacques Louis Vidal. Support is also generously provided by the May and Samuel Rudin Foundation, Inc., with additional funding from Candy and Michael Barasch, Sanford Biggers, Libby and Adrian Ellis, Jane Hait and Justin Beal, and Amy and Sean Lyons.