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6/11/2012

Trisha Baga

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

NEW YORK, October 26, 2012—This fall the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Plymouth Rock 2, the first solo museum exhibition of New York–based artist Trisha Baga. Organized by curatorial assistant Elisabeth Sherman, the installation will be on view in the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Lobby Gallery from November 7, 2012, through January 27, 2013.

Baga has called the story of Plymouth Rock, “The saddest story of an object, where it becomes a symbol, and then is moved from place to place through overly elaborate processes, broken in half and brought back together. . . Right now they’ve built a gazebo around it to protect it from the rain. A rock protected from the rain. It’s my favorite sculpture story.” Using a two-channel video, Baga taps into the metaphor of the mythologized but historically dubious landing site of the Pilgrims to create her own fractured narrative. Baga draws connections between familiar cultural touchstones and her own intensely personal memories using images of waves alluding to the Mayflower voyage, visual references such as a fish out of water, and excerpts from her family home videos. At the same time, she meticulously positions her own paintings, sculptures, and found objects in the gallery to interfere and interact with video projection in a carefully choreographed examination of real and virtual space.

Originally shown as part of the show Trisha Baga: Rock at London’s Vilma Gold Gallery last spring, the installation’s second iteration—or sequel—has been custom tailored for the Whitney’s lobby gallery with new paintings, sculptures, and materials sourced and created in New York.
Baga, 27, has become known for multilayered videos and performance works that address media consumption in the Internet age. She often plays with perceived contradictions, juxtaposing disheveled and ordered, comic and poignant, tangible and immaterial images within her works. Originally from Venice, Florida, Baga received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union School of Art and Master of Fine Arts at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She will present a solo exhibition at Greene Naftali on view from November 29, 2012, through January 12, 2013. Baga recently had a solo exhibition at Kunstverein Munich (2012) and has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including New Pictures of Common Objects at MoMA PS1 (2012), Hasta Mañana at Greene Naftali (2011), Greater New York Cinema at MoMA PS1 (2010), and Adventures Close to Home at Anthology Film Archives (2009). About the Whitney

The Whitney Museum of American Art is the world’s leading museum of twentieth-century and contemporary art of the United States. Focusing particularly on works by living artists, the Whitney is celebrated for presenting important exhibitions and for its renowned collection, which comprises over 19,000 works by more than 2,900 artists. With a history of exhibiting the most promising and influential artists and provoking intense debate, the Whitney Biennial, the Museum's signature exhibition, has become the most important survey of the state of contemporary art in the United States. In addition to its landmark exhibitions, the Museum is known internationally for events and educational programs of exceptional significance and as a center for research, scholarship, and conservation.
Founded by sculptor and arts patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1930, the Whitney was first housed on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village. The Museum relocated in 1954 to West 54th Street and, in 1966, inaugurated its present home, designed by Marcel Breuer, at 945 Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side. While its vibrant program of exhibitions and events continues uptown, the Whitney is constructing a new building, designed by Renzo Piano, in downtown Manhattan. Located at the corner of Gansevoort and Washington Streets in the Meatpacking District, at the southern entrance to the High Line, the new building, which has generated immense momentum and support, will enable the Whitney to vastly increase the size and scope of its exhibition and programming space. Ground was broken on the new building in May 2011, and it is projected to open to the public in 2015.

Image: Trisha Baga (b. 1985), Plymouth Rock, 2012 (installation view, Vilma Gold, London, 2012). Two-channel video projected from memory cards, acrylic on canvas (three parts), spray paint on CD player, foil, bubble-wrapped plinth, box of electrical wires, spray paint and acrylic on foam, and water bottle; 27:12 min. Installation dimensions variable. Collection of the artist; courtesy Greene Naftali, New York

Press contact:
Communications Officer Whitney Museum of American Art Stephen Soba (212) 570‐3634 pressoffice@whitney.org

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