NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY presentS DISCUSSION about

The Artist’s Museum, the exhibition now on view at ica/boston

ICA Curator Dan Byers in conversation with artists Carol Bove, Anna Craycroft, and Sara VanDerBeek whose work is featured in the current exhibition at ICA/Boston

December 14, 2016, New York City

WHAT

On the occasion of the publication of the catalogue accompanying The Artist’s Museum, the exhibition currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA), the New York Public Library’s An Art Book program presents artists Carol Bove, Anna Craycroft, and Sara VanDerBeek in conversation with Dan Byers, ICA’s Mannion Family Senior Curator. The free public program takes place on Wednesday, December 14, in the Library’s Celeste Auditorium at Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, at 6:00 pm.

The Artist's Museum comprises immersive artworks that bring together art, artifacts, and natural materials to create distinct models from each artist’s world. Employing the language of museum display, the artists chart the recurrence of forms and themes across cultures and history, to reveal unexpected relationships and affinities. The artists engage a variety of disciplines and subjects, such as dance, music, design, gender, sexuality, and technology. Among the other artists included are Rosa Barba, Mark Leckey, Pierre Leguillon, Christian Marclay, Goshka Macuga, and Rosemarie Trockel.

The fully illustrated catalogue, published by Prestel, includes texts by Byers; Claire Bishop, art historian, critic, author, and Professor of Art in the History Department at CUNY Graduate Center, New York; Lynne Cooke, Senior Curator, Special Projects in Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and Ingrid Schaffner, Curator of the 2018 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art. Copies will be available for purchase and signing at the end of the event.

WHEN

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

6:00 p.m. Auditorium doors open to public at 5:30 p.m.

WHERE

Celeste Auditorium, Celeste Bartos Education Center (lower level)

New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street

New York, NY 10016

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CAROL BOVE

Carol Bove’s sculptural practice makes re-use of materials that come with readymade histories: rusted metal beams, seashells, and driftwood. She is an avid student of art, art history, and exhibition history, and has devoted bodies of work to the formal and institutional legacies of Constantin Brancusi and the Venetian architect and exhibition designer Carlo Scarpa. Rather than adhering to a single formal vocabulary, she uses cubes, grids, curlicues, and organic forms to forge affective relationships between her present moment and sculpture-making idioms of her historical precursors.

DAN BYERS

Dan Byers is the Mannion Family Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. His ICA exhibitions include The Artist’s Museum, Diane Simpson, Geoffrey Farmer, and upcoming exhibitions of Steve McQueen and Ron Nagle. Previously, Byers was the Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art, where he oversaw acquisitions of modern and contemporary art and was co-curator, with Daniel Baumann and Tina Kukielski, of the 2013 Carnegie International. Other projects at the Carnegie included solo exhibitions of Cathy Wilkes, Ragnar Kjartansson, and James Lee Byars. Byers has published essays on Jeronimo Elespe, Michelle Grabner, Joachim Koester, Catherine Murphy, and Gedi Sibony, among other artists.

ANNA CRAYCROFT

Anna Craycroft investigates fractal geometry, photography, art history, childhood psychology, and literature in her practice. In her most recent work for The Artist’s Museum, she conducted archival research on the avant-garde photographer Berenice Abbott and has conceived an installation at the ICA/Boston that brings together Abbott’s wide-ranging work with works by her own peer group of artists.

SARA VANDEREEK

Sara VanDerBeek stages sculptural tableaux to photograph them. Her art-historical subjects range from British Museum antiquities to Frank Stella, René Magritte, László Moholy-Nagy, and her father, Stan VanDerBeek. Although she merges her photographic and sculptural practices in immersive installations, she conspicuously transfers the qualities of materials such as fabric and marble sculpture, into photography that offer a new, and specifically intermedial, way of framing the past.

ICA/BOSTON

An influential forum for multidisciplinary arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston has been at the leading edge of art in Boston for 80 years. Like its iconic building on Boston’s waterfront, the ICA offers new ways of engaging with the world around us. Its exhibitions and programs provide access to contemporary art, artists, and the creative process, inviting audiences of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the excitement of new art and ideas. The ICA, located at 25 Harbor Shore Drive, is open Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 AM­–5 PM; Thursday and Friday, 10 AM­–9 PM; and Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM­­–5 PM.  Admission is $15 adults, $13 seniors and $10 students, and free for members and children 17 and under. Free admission for families at ICA Play Dates (2 adults + children 12 and under) on last Saturday of the month. For more information, call 617-478-3100 or visit our website at www.icaboston.org. Follow the ICA at Facebook/ICA.Boston, Twitter.com/ICAinBoston, and instagram.com/icaboston.