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30/4/2015

Two Exhibition

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Mary Heilmann : Sunset
curated by:Laura Phipps and Elisabeth Sherman

In partnership with TF Cornerstone and High Line Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art will unveil a new commission today, heralding the opening of its Renzo Piano-designed building on Gansevoort Street on May 1. Baby Carriage on Bike or Riot Shield as Carriage (2015) by New York-based artist Michele Abeles will become the second in a series of projects by key American artists to be displayed on the facade of TF Cornerstone's building at 95 Horatio Street, directly across Gansevoort Street from the southern end of the High Line and the Whitney. Alex Katz inaugurated the five-year series last September with his work Katherine and Elizabeth (2014).

The new 19-foot-by-29-foot piece includes a number of Abeles's earlier photographs digitally composited in order to consider the billboard as a site of collapsed time. Abeles's recycling of her own artworks, a common practice for the artist, here takes on an additional reference to the historical look of billboards, which sometimes weather and erode to peel away layers of advertisements, exposing hidden images from the past. The artist's use of her own preexisting artworks in this space is also a witty reflection on branding and self-promotion as the contemporary norm in art and life.

This installation is organized by senior curatorial assistants Laura Phipps and Elisabeth Sherman.

ABOUT MICHELE ABELES.
Michele Abeles (b. 1977, New York) is an artist based in Brooklyn. She received her MFA from Yale University. Abeles has had solo exhibitions at galleries in New York, London, and Athens, Greece. Her work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; and SculptureCenter, New York. Abeles's work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Dallas Museum of Art..

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America Is Hard to See

When the Whitney Museum of American Art opens its new Renzo Piano-designed home in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District on May 1, 2015, the first exhibition on view will be an unprecedented selection of works from the Museum’s renowned permanent collection. Setting forth a distinctly new narrative, America Is Hard to See presents fresh perspectives on the Whitney’s collection and reflects upon art in the United States with over 600 works by some 400 artists, spanning the period from about 1900 to the present. The exhibition—its title is taken from a poem by Robert Frost and also used by the filmmaker Emile de Antonio for one of his political documentaries—is the most ambitious display to date of the Whitney’s collection.

Delving deep into the Whitney’s holdings, America Is Hard to See examines the themes, ideas, beliefs, visions, and passions that have preoccupied and galvanized American artists over the past one hundred and fifteen years. Reflecting the way artists think and work, all mediums are presented together without hierarchy. Numerous pieces that have rarely, if ever, been shown before will appear alongside familiar icons, in a conscious effort to challenge assumptions about the American art canon.

The majority of the exhibition will be on view through September 27, 2015, but some floors will close on a staggered schedule before and after that date.

America Is Hard to See is organized by a team of Whitney curators, led by Donna De Salvo, Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs, including Carter E. Foster, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawing; Dana Miller, Curator of the Permanent Collection; and Scott Rothkopf, Nancy and Steve Crown Family Curator and Associate Director of Programs; with Jane Panetta, Assistant Curator; Catherine Taft, Assistant Curator; and Mia Curran, Curatorial Assistant.

Image: Running People at 2,616,216 (1978–79) by Jonathan Borofsky installed on the West Ambulatory, 5th floor, the inaugural exhibition, America Is Hard to See (May 1–September 27, 2015). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photograph © Nic Lehoux

Press Contact:
Stephen Soba (212) 570-3633 or pressoffice@whitney.org

Opening: Friday 1 May 2015

Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street New York, NY 10014

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