In Practice: Ana Gzirishvili
January 29–April 27, 2026
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United States
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Pat Oleszko: Fool Disclosure
SculptureCenter presents Pat Oleszko’s first solo exhibition in a New York City institution in over 35 years. Rooted in humor, sharp social commentary, and defiance of all forms of authority, Oleszko's sculptures lend themselves to raucous performance, using linguistic wit to address various concerns, including accessible housing, women’s issues, and world politics. Spanning both floors, this survey exhibition is constructed around Oleszko’s singular inflatables and brings together dozens of these airy, monumental works for the first time. From Yupasaurus (1980), a dinosaur that satirizes developers aggressively buying up land in New York, to Quit Draggin’ (2012), a towering dragon that bemoans a slow response to the climate crisis, they offer a rare glimpse into this vital aspect of her work. In addition to using air as a sculptural material, Oleszko devised the strategy of exhibiting work on her body, building intricate costumes that “walked out the door,” in her words, and used “all the world as a stooge”. The exhibition includes key works from her decades-long career, such as costumes, sculptural chapeaux, films, performance documentation, and archival material from the 1970s to the present.
The presentation will be accompanied by the artist’s first institutional publication, which expands on the performance histories around her sculptures with newly commissioned essays by Columbia University professor and art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson; New York-based cultural worker, writer, and researcher Marie Catalano; Budapest-based curator, writer, and artist Gyula Muskovics; and American chef, food writer—and close friend of Oleszko—Ruth Reichl, along with a biographical timeline by the artist in her own idiosyncratic language. The publication will be designed by Tiffany Malakooti.
In Practice: Ana Gzirishvili
Ana Gzirishvili’s practice spans poetry, film, sculpture, and installation, exploring the liminal spaces between beings, objects, and material and immaterial realms. Her works engage with themes of transitionality, circulation, and displacement, often through disassembling and reassembling contexts and forms. For In Practice, she will create a new group of leather sculptures sourced from aged furniture, reshaped into still life arrangements inspired by various architectural contexts that explore the scars and traces left by objects and spaces.
The 2027 In Practice Open Call for Artist Proposals is now open.
Applications will be accepted until February 26, 2026 at 11:59pm EST.
Learn more about In Practice on our website and apply through Submittable.
Support
Generous support for Pat Oleszko: Fool Disclosure is provided by Julie Augur, Girlfriend Fund, and Will Palley. Additional support is provided by Thomas Berger.
Special thanks to Plaxall, Inc.
Major support for the Pat Oleszko: Fool Disclosure exhibition catalog is provided by the Eva Hesse Initiative for New Sculpture and the Every Page Foundation. Generous support is provided by David Peter Francis, New York.
The SculptureCenter Asymmetry Curatorial Fellowship is made possible by Asymmetry.
In Practice is made possible by the Elaine Graham Weitzen Commissioning Fund for Emerging Artists.
Major support for the In Practice program is provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
Generous support for In Practice is provided by Sarah Elson.
In Practice: Ana Gzirishvili was developed in residence at Launch Pad LaB, France.
Support for all of SculptureCenter’s work with artists from abroad is provided by the International Council: Anonymous, Stephen Cheng, Yan Du, Thomas Berger, Antonio Murzi and Diana Morgan, Füsun Eczacıbaşı - SAHA, Yuan Han Li, and Audrey Rose Smith and Vicente Muñoz.
Leadership support for SculptureCenter’s exhibitions and programs is provided by Carol Bove, Barbara von Portatius, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, and Teiger Foundation. Major support is provided by Richard Chang, Jill and Peter Kraus, Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins, Eleanor Heyman Propp, Jacques Louis Vidal, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Generous support is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch, Libby and Adrian Ellis, Jane Hait and Justin Beal, Gabrielle Humphrey, Amy and Sean Lyons, Alexander S.C. Rower, Lily Lyons, David Maclean, Ronay and Richard Menschel, Poppy Pulitzer, and Fred Wilson. Additional funding is provided by Ben Ackerley, Charmaine and Roman Mendoza, Elizabeth and Matt Quigley, Katharine Ristich, Julien Sarkozy, Carla Shen, Kristina Wong Foster, and Lisa Young and Steven Abraham.
