Member Preview Days: Shifting Landscapes
Oct 30–31, 2024
Teresita Fernández, Fire (America) 3, 2016. Glazed ceramic, 72 × 144 × 1 1/4 in. (182.9 × 365.8 × 3.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 2021.19a-c. ©️ Teresita Fernández
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Floor 6
Open to all members
Wednesday, October 30, 10:30 am–6 pm
Thursday, October 31, 10:30 am–6 pm
Be among the first to experience Shifting Landscapes during Member Previews.
Shifting Landscapes explores how evolving political, ecological, and social issues motivate artists’ representations of the world around them. While the art historical genre of landscape has long been associated with picturesque vistas and documentary accounts of place, the artworks gathered in this exhibition suggest a more expansive interpretation. The 120 works by more than eighty artists—including Firelei Báez, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jane Dickson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Amalia Mesa-Bains, and Purvis Young—depict the effects of industrialization on the environment, grapple with the impact of geopolitical borders, and give shape to imagined spaces as a way of destabilizing the concept of a “natural” world.
Enjoy additional Preview access to the exhibition on October 30 during Halloween Member Night from 7:30–10 pm.
