10/10/2015
Greater New York
MoMA PS1, New York
Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Bringing together emerging and more established artists, the show occupies the entire building with over 400 works by 157 artists, including programs of film and performance.
MoMA PS1 presents
the
fourth
iteration of its
landmark exhibition series, begun as a collaboration with The Mu
seum of Modern Art in
2000. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of
emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area.
Greater New York
arrives in a city and art community that has changed sign
ificantly since the first version of
the
survey. With the rise of a robust commercial art market and the proliferation of art
fairs, opportunities for younger artists in the city have grown alongside a burgeoning
interest in artists who may have been overl
ooked in the art histories of their time.
Concurrently, the city itself is being reshaped by a voracious real estate market that poses
particular challenges to local artists. The speed of this change in recent years has stoked a
nostalgia for earlier perio
ds in New York
—
notably the 1970s and 1980s, and the
experimental practices and attitudes that flourished in the city during those decades.
Against this backdrop,
Greater New York
departs from the show’s traditional focus on
youth, instead examining points
of connection and tension between our desire for the new
and nostalgia for that which it displaces.
Bringing together emerging and more established artists, the exhibition occupies
MoMA PS1’s entire building with over 400 works by 157 artists, including
programs of film
and performance.
Greater New York
is co-organized by a team led by Peter Eleey, Curator
and Associate Director of Exhibitions and Programs, MoMA PS1; and including art historian
Douglas Crimp, University of Rochester; Thomas J. Lax, Associ
ate Curator, Department of
Media and Performance Art, MoMA; and Mia Locks, Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1.
Considering the “greater” aspect of its title in terms of both geography and time,
Greater New York
begins roughly with the moment when MoMA PS1 was fo
unded in 1976
as an alternative venue that took advantage of disused real estate, reaching back to
artists who engaged the margins of the city.
Together, the works in the exhibition employ
a heterogeneous range of aesthetic strategies, often emphatically r
epresenting the city’s
inhabitants through forms of bold figuration, and
foregrounding New York itself as a
location of conflict and possibility.
CURATORIAL TEAM
Greater New York
is co-organized by
Peter Eleey, Curator and Associate Director of
Exhibitions and Programs, MoMA PS1;
Douglas Crimp, Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of
Art History at the University of Rochester;
Thomas J. Lax, Associate Curator of Media and
Performance Art, The Museum of Modern Art; and
Mia Locks, Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1.
The program of accompanying
Sunday Sessions
events is organized by
Mark Beasley,
Guest Curator, and
Jenny Schlenzka, Associate Curator, MoMA PS1
Greater New York
is accompanied by a full schedule of films and performances throughout
the run of the exhibition. Film Programs take place in the Cinema; Performance Programs
take place in the VW Dome, 3
rd
Floor Main Gallery, and other locations as n
oted. Please
check the website for details:
www.momaps1.org
Greater New York
is made possible by MoMA’s Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in
Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation.
Generous funding is provided by The Contemporary Arts Council o
f The Museum of Modern
Art, The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art, and The Junior Associates of
The Museum of Modern Art.
Additional support is provided by the MoMA PS1 Annual Exhibition Fund.
Special thanks to Elham and Tony Salamé.
Image: Collier Schorr. The Painted Chair (Jordan). 2015. Silver gelatin print. Courtesy of the artist; Rosalind Fox Solomon
Press Contact:
Allison Rodman, (718) 786-3139 or allison_rodman@moma.org - press_momaps1@moma.org
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$10 suggested donation; $5 for students and senior citizens; free for New York City residents, MoMA members and MoMA admission ticket holders