Édgar Calel: B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone) / In Practice 2023 / CFGNY in residence

This spring and summer at SculptureCenter:

Édgar Calel: B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone)
May 11–August 7, 2023
Édgar Calel’s first institutional solo exhibition continues his engagement with the Mayan Kaqchikel cosmovision and the transmission of its concepts and practices to new publics through spaces of contemporary art. Calel’s installations across media connect sites in and around his hometown of Chi Xot (San Juan Comalapa), Guatemala, to sites elsewhere through processes of transposition, consistent attention to materials, and local translation. At SculptureCenter, Calel inaugurates B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone), an installation of rock, soil, and fire that connects the essential elements of a site for jun k’obomanik, or giving thanks through offering rituals. Co-commissioned with Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam.

In Practice 2023
May 2023–Feb 2024
SculptureCenter is pleased to announce the artists selected from our 2023 In Practice Open Call. Since 2003, SculptureCenter’s In Practice open call program has supported the production of new work by over 250 artists.  In Practice 2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of the program and the first year of a new format that will generate a yearlong series of solo presentations. Each exhibition is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a New York City institution, and each artist will present new work commissioned by SculptureCenter.

Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik: May 11–June 19, 2023
Marina Xenofontos: June 29–August 7, 2023
Salim Green: June 29–August 7, 2023
Isabel Mallet: fall 2023
Devin T. Mays : fall 2023
Adriana Ramić: fall 2023
Claudia Pagès: winter 2024

CFGNY in Residence
June 3–August 7, 2023
Artists and designers CFGNY will be in residence at SculptureCenter from June to August 2023. Visit our website for shop hours and events (coming soon).

Support
Support for Édgar Calel: B’alab’äj is provided by Antonio Murzi. Special thanks to Stefan Benchoam and Enrique Morales Larraondo of Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City.

In Practice 2023 is made possible by the generosity of the Elaine Graham Weitzen Foundation for Fine Arts. The Foundation’s support for SculptureCenter’s annual open call exhibition reflects Elaine Graham Weitzen’s (1920-2017) lifelong commitment to emerging artists and her exuberant support of new ideas in art.

Major support for the In Practice program is provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In Practice is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. In-kind support for In Practice: Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik is provided by Conifer Kingdom, Silverton, OR.

Leadership support for SculptureCenter’s exhibitions and programs is provided by Carol Bove, Lee Elliott and Robert K. Elliott, Barbara and Andrew Gundlach, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, and Jill and Peter Kraus. 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.