Membership
Become a Member of SculptureCenter and join the dialogue of cutting-edge contemporary art. Your Membership puts you in contact with some of today's most talented artists and the work that they create. Membership entitles you to special programs and exhibition viewing opportunities. Join now to take advantage of all SculptureCenter has to offer.
Celebrate the work of an amazing community of artists. Join now. For information please contact John Emison, at 718.361.1750 or membership@sculpture-center.org.
Studio Visit with Mika Tajima
Thursday, July 8, 2010, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Please join SculptureCenter for an intimate conversation and drinks with artist Mika Tajima at her Bushwick studio in Brooklyn. Tajima will be speaking about her artistic practice and sculptural installation The Extras, currently on view in the exhibition Knight's Move. Space will be very limited so RSVP early to guarantee your spot.
Artists in Conversation: David Brooks and Erin Shirreff
Sunday, June 20, 2010, 2:00 PM
A special conversation and drinks with David Brooks and Erin Shirreff. Brooks and Shirreff, who are both currently showing work at SculptureCenter's Knight's Move and PS1's Greater New York, will be speaking about their work on site at both locations, drawing parallels between the pieces that they have presented at each of these exhibitions. The talk will start at MoMA PS1, and then move up the street to SculptureCenter.
Place: MoMA PS1 (meet on the front steps),
2225 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY
Please RSVP to 718.361.1750 or email erin@sculpture-center.org.
Image: David Brooks, Partially Buried Boardwalk (with observation tower), 2010. David Brooks, Terra Incognitae - Rainforest Canopy (Cronos version), 2010. Erin Shirreff, UN 2010, 2010.
SculptureCenter Armory Show Tour
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 11:00 AM
This tour is now full, no further reservations can be accepted
Join SculptureCenter for an exclusive members-only tour of the Armory Show at Piers 92 and 94, on Saturday, March 6 at 11:00 AM. Led by ARTime co-founder and contemporary art historian Dorothea Basile, the tour will focus on sculpture, taking us from the Modern section at Pier 92 to this year's latest works on view at Pier 94's Contemporary section. If you are a SculptureCenter member and would like to RSVP, contact Erin Pierson at epierson@sculpture-center.org.
Morse Collection Visit
Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Join us for a very special visit to the private collection of Barbara and Howard Morse. Barbara and Howard are passionate and informed collectors and patrons who were early supporters of Cady Noland, John Miller, Andrea Fraser and others. They rehang the collection in the Manhattan apartment regularly and this installation revolves around themes of seriality, appropriation, and representation and features work by Tom Burr, Ann Collier, Michael Krebber, Klara Liden, Josephine Pryde, and Seth Price among others.
Image: Tom Burr, propped perfume, 2008. Plywood, paint, steel hinges, steel thumbtacks, vintage magazine ads, steel cable, feather boa.
Collection Visit with John Friedman
Monday, November 2, 2009, 6:00 PM
Join us for wine & cheese and a private collection visit with New Museum Trustee John Friedman. Friedman's collection features an impressive range of artists, well-known for its many early works by notable contemporary artists. Artists featured include Edgar Arceneaux, Ian Burns, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Chris Johanson, Los Carpinteros, Nathan Mabry, Paul Pfeiffer, Eva Rothschild, Mindy Shapero, and Huan Zhang. Don't miss the opportunity to meet this enthusiastic collector and gain insight on his unique and adventurous collection!
Image: Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Hands, 2007.
Marquetry, shellac.
Visit with Tom Burr and walkthrough of his current exhibition Sentence at Bortolami Gallery
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 12:00 PM
Artist Tom Burr and Bortolami Gallery Director Simone Battisti will talk with members about Burr's latest work currently on view at Bortolami Gallery. Don't miss this opportunity to meet one of today's most important artists exploring post-minimalism and post-modernism. This is Burr's first US gallery exhibition in six years; Burr had his first solo US museum exhibition, Addict-Love, at SculptureCenter in 2008.
Image: Tom Burr, endlessly repeated gesture, 2009. Wood, metal brackets and bolts, carpeting, mirrored tile.
Conversation and Film Screening
with artist Rashid Johnson
Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 7:00 PM
Please join artist Rashid Johnson for wine and conversation about his current project Smoke and Mirrors at SculptureCenter, and a private screening of one of his recent short films. Considered one of the leading artists of the "post-black" movement, Johnson engages with racial identity in ways that insist on fluidity and contradiction. Johnson studied at Columbia College, Chicago and the School at the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited internationally. Smoke and Mirrors is Johnson's first solo museum show in New York.
Richard Meier Collection Visit
Friday, March 13, 2009, 12:00 PM
Join us for an exclusive tour of Richard Meier's architectural model studio in Long Island City. The collection on view includes 300 models housed in 3,600-square-foot warehouse, ranging from Meier's residential houses of the 1960's to early versions of his 1997 design for J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
The Armory Show for SculptureCenter Members
Thursday, March 5 - Saturday, March 7, 12pm-7pm
SculptureCenter Members receive FREE admission to The Armory Show - International Fair of New Art, The Armory Show Modern, and Volta5.
There will be an exclusive tour of the Armory show prior to the public opening on Thursday, March 5th at 11:30am. The tour will include both the Contemporary and new Modern sections of the fair, with a focus on sculpture. If you are a SculptureCenter member and would like to RSVP, contact Alex Lane at alane@sculpture-center.org.
Medium No. 1 (Manhattan): Midtown
Saturday, February 21, 2009, 3:00 PM
Tyler Coburn takes us through the streets of Midtown! Performance, technology, and urban poetics join together in Coburn's In Practice project Medium No. 1 (Manhattan) (2009). Beginning on the first day of the year, Coburn will transmit improvisatory monologues and conversations recorded on walks across Manhattan to a thermal roll fax machine in SculptureCenter's basement. Join us for this interactive afternoon, followed with an evening reading of a selection of Tyler's transmissions. Bring a guest and enjoy a glass of wine after hours at SculptureCenter.
Image: Tyler Coburn, A revolver aimed just at you...Red, iron, plastic, acrylic, some sort of translucent film on the top, gross, no relationship to anything, 2008. Halftone prints, tape.
Lower East Side Gallery Walk
Saturday, January 31, 2009, 12:00 PM
Join SculptureCenter Executive Director Mary Ceruti for a gallery walk through the Lower East Side. Latifa Echakhch at James Fuentes Gallery, Rebecca H. Quaytman at Miguel Abreu Gallery, and Michael Mahalchick at Canada Gallery. The gallerists and artists will be on site to discuss their work with the group.
Image: R.H. Quaytman,
Chapter 12, Iamb, 2008. Silk-screen on wood. 32.36" x 52.36"
Members' Preview of Winter 2009 Shows
Sunday, January 11, 2009, 3:30 PM
Celebrate the opening of our winter exhibitions with a private viewing of The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object and In Practice. Meet the artists and curators, hear first hand about the works on view and stay and enjoy the opening, 4-6pm.
Studio Visit with Lisa Sigal and Paul Ramirez Jonas
Saturday, November 8, 2008, 12:00 PM
A studio visit to the Old American Can Factory. Meet artists Lisa Sigal and Paul Ramirez Jonas in their studios.
Studio Visit with Kelley Walker
Saturday, October 18, 2008, 12:00 AM
A studio visit with Kelley Walker. Join us for this rare opportunity to visit the artist in his Chelsea studio.
Studio Visit with David Altmejd
Saturday, April 12, 2008, 11:00 AM
A studio visit with sculptor David Altmejd. The artist opened his Long Island City studio to members, answering questions, discussing his inspiration, process, and studio practice.
Artist Led Walkthrough with Joel Shapiro
Saturday, November 10, 2007, 11:00 AM
An afternoon with Joel Shapiro. The artist elaborated on his latest work in his show New Sculpture at Pace Wildenstein, sparking a lively discussion.
A Talk with Tom Otterness
Saturday, October 20, 2007, 11:00 AM
A talk with Tom Otterness at Marlborough Gallery to view his latest large scale bronze sculpture in The Public Unconscious. The artist discussed his process and forthcoming projects.
Artist Led Walkthrough of Fall 2007 Shows
Sunday, September 9, 2007, 3:30 PM
Artist Jeppe Hein, In Practice artists Nina Lola Bachubber, Richard Bottwin, Edward Kihn, Paul & Wilken, Cesare Pietroiusti, Willoughby Sharp, Nolan Simon, Elisabeth Smolars, Mary Ellen Strom & Ann Carlson, Director Mary Ceruti, and Curator Sarina Basta hosted a private walkthrough of Jeppe Hein's Illusions, and In Practice, 2007, for members.