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.
Tishman Speyer Collection Visit
Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 6:00pm
Join us for a very special visit to the Speyer Family Collection, exhibited in the corporate headquarters of Tishman Speyer. The collection spans a period from 1960 through the present and is frequently rotated in their Rockefeller Center offices. Our guided tour will take us through the current exhibition representing a selection of works acquired in the last 10 years. An event not to be missed!
Image: Tishman Speyer Headquarters, photo copyright Peter Aaron/Esto.
Not a Member? Join today! Contact John Emison at jemison@sculpture-center.org.
Member Preview: Winter Exhibitions and a performance by Yve Laris Cohen
Sunday, January 15, 2012, 3:30-5:00 PM
Join Guest Curator Fionn Meade for a walkthrough of Scene, Hold, Ballast with exhibiting artists David Maljkovic and Lucy Skaer and Curatorial Associate Kristen Chappa for an introduction to SculptureCenter's 2012 In Practice program exhibition, You never look at me from the place from which I see you. Yve Laris Cohen will debut his new performance exclusively for members during the preview. The performance will take place inside of his site-specific installation in our lower level galleries.
The Member Preview will begin at 3:30pm with the walkthrough at 4:00pm and performance at 4:30pm. Complimentary beer and wine will be served. Please note that due to the location of the performance, capacity is limited.
Not a member? Join today! Contact John Emison at jemison@sculpture-center.org
Image: Yve Laris Cohen, Duet.., 2011, Courtesy the artist.
September 11 with Peter Eleey
Thursday, November 10th, 2011, 6:00PM
Enjoy after-hours access with MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey as he discusses his current exhibition September 11.
Featured artists include Diane Arbus, Siah Armajani, Fiona Banner, Luis Camnitzer, Janet Cardiff, John Chamberlain, Sarah Charlesworth, Christo, Jem Cohen, Bruce Conner, Jeremy Deller, Thomas Demand, Shannon Ebner, William Eggleston, Harun Farocki, Lara Favaretto, Jane Freilicher, Maureen Gallace, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jens Haaning, Susan Hiller, Roger Hiorns, Thomas Hirschhorn, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Barbara Kruger, Mark Lombardi, Mary Lucier, Gordon Matta-Clark, Harold Mendez, Mike Nelson, Cady Noland, Roman Ondý Ono and John Lennon, John Pilson, Willem de Rooij, George Segal, Rosemarie Trockel, James Turrell, Stephen Vitiello, and John Williams.
RSVP to John Emison at john@sculpture-center.org.
Image: Alex Katz 10:00 AM. 1994. Oil on linen. 72 x 96". Collection of the artist; courtesy Gavin Brown's Enterprise. Photo: Paul Takeuchi. (c) 2011 Alex Katz.
Studio Visit with Virgina Overton
NEW DATE: Wednesday, September 14th, 2011, 7:00PM
Join us for conversation about the current projects under development at Virginia Overton's Greenpoint studio.
RSVP to John Emison at john@sculpture-center.org.
Virginia Overton, Untitled (Concave) and Untitled (Convex), 2011. Installation image from The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial courtesy of the artist; Martos Gallery, New York; and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
Member Preview of SculptureCenter's Fall 2011 Exhibitions
Saturday, September 10th, 2011, 3:30PM
Gain exclusive pre-opening access and a curator walkthrough by Executive Director Mary Ceruti of SculptureCenter's Artist in Residence Commission Sanford Biggers: Cosmic Voodoo Circus and the series of exhibitions Short Stories. The preview will begin at 3:30PM and the walkthrough at 4:00PM.
RSVP to John Emison at john@sculpture-center.org.
Image: Sanford Biggers, Shake, 2011. HD color video still. Courtesy of the artist.
NewArtNetwork Summer Social
Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 7:00 PM
Join SculptureCenter's NewArtNetwork at our Summer Social! Enjoy after hours access to our current exhibition Time Again and a live interpretation of American composer Frederic Rzewski's Coming Together and Attica, arranged by Brent Arnold, and performed by Megan Gould, Brent Arnold, Chris DiMeglio, Katie Young, >Baby Copperhead, and
Joe Gallant, as well as cocktails and special DJ sets by Xaviera Simmons and Nick Relph.
Special thanks to The Art Dossier and Kopparberg
Not a member? Join today! Contact John Emison at jemison@sculpture-center.org
Member Preview of Spring Exhibition
Sunday, May 8, 2011, 3:00 PM
Join SculptureCenter Curator Fionn Meade and exhibiting artists for an exclusive preview of the SculptureCenter Summer Exhibition Time Again. The Preview opens at 3:30PM and we will begin the Curator Tour at 4:00PM. Afterwards enjoy the public opening reception from 5:00-7:00PM. RSVP to John Emison at john@sculpture-center.org.
Image: William E. Jones, Berlin Flash Frames, 2010.
Member Visit with Richard Aldrich to Addicted to Highs and Lows
Tuesday April 26th, 6:00-7:00PM
Join SculptureCenter Members for an intimate conversation with Richard Aldrich at Bortolami Gallery in Chelsea to discuss his recent curatorial project Addicted to Highs and Lows and the overlapping roles of artist, curator, critic, and writer. The Brookyn-based artist is best known for his abstracted paintings, two of which will be included in the upcoming SculptureCenter exhibition Time Again. For more information on the exhibition please visit www.bortolamigallery.com.
RSVP to John Emison at john@sculpture-center.org.
Image: Anicka Yi, Convox Dialer Double Distance Of A Shining Path, 2011.
Member Tour of The Armory Show 2011
Saturday March 5th, 11:00 AM
Join us for an exclusive members-only tour of The Armory Show 2011 on Saturday March 5th, 11:00am. The hour-long tour will be led by ARTime co-founder and contemporary art historian Dorothea Basile with a focus on sculpture, ranging from the Modern to Contemporary sections of the show. Afterwards enjoy full access to both The Armory Show and VOLTA NY for the rest of the day. Space will be limited so RSVP early to rsvp@sculpture-center.org or by phone at 718.361.1750.
We will meet in the The Armory Circle Desk at Pier 92 (near West 52nd Street). If you cannot make the tour but would still like to visit The Armory Show please contact John Emison for FREE SculptureCenter Member passes to both The Armory Show and VOLTA NY at john@sculpture-center.org or by phone at 718.361.1750.
Member Tour of Speculative Futures at Bloomberg
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 6:30 PM
Please join us for a members-only tour of the exhibition Speculative Futures led by curator Regine Basha. Speculative Futures is a unique off-site exhibition featuring works by Julieta Aranda, Beth Campbell, Cao Fei, and Ana Prvacki. The exhibition looks at futurological tendencies in art and how they may relate to the context of the economic hub that is the Bloomberg New York office. Speculative Futures is curated by Regine Basha and organized by SculptureCenter for Bloomberg. The exhibition will be on view from February 1 - April 29, 2011 by appointment only.
Not a member? Join today! Contact John Emison at jemison@sculpture-center.org
NewArtNetwork Winter Social
Thursday, February 17, 2011, 7:00 PM
SculptureCenter and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts are pleased to present the NewArtNetwork Winter Social, Thursday February 17th, 7-9pm. Enjoy exclusive after hours access to our current exhibitions Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture 1991-2009 and Vide-Poche. In celebration of New York Fashion Week, the evening will feature SAMMA Fall/Winter 2011 Presents- a performance by Nancy Garcia with Elle Erdman, Kate Martel, and Sarah White-Ayón; a special DJ set by Colleen Nika AKA Miss Mordant; and drinks by True Vodka and Perrier.
Not a member? Join today! Contact John Emison at jemison@sculpture-center.org
SculptureCenter Members-Only Exhibition Preview
Sunday, January 23, 2011, 3:30 PM
Join Executive Director Mary Ceruti, SculptureCenter Curator Fionn Meade, Guest Curator Helaine Posner, and the exhibiting artists for an exclusive preview of the Winter Exhibitions Ursula von Rydingsvard: 1991-2009 and Vide-Poche. The Preview starts at 3:30pm with a Curator Tour at 4:00pm. RSVP to John Emison at rsvp@sculpture-center.org.
Ursula von Rydingsvard Studio Visit
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 11:00 AM
An intimate visit and conversation with Ursula von Rydingsvard in her expansive Brooklyn studio. Von Rydingsvard is best known for creating large-scale, often monumental sculpture from cedar beams, which she painstakingly cuts, assembles, glues, clamps, and laminates, finally rubbing powdered graphite into the work's textured, faceted surfaces. This visit precedes her major traveling exhibition Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture, 1991 - 2000 opening at SculptureCenter on January 23, 2011. Space is limited and we anticipate this event to fill quickly so please reserve your spot early.
JJ PEET at On Stellar Rays
Thursday, October 21, 2010
SculptureCenter's New Art Network will visit of JJ PEET's exhibition Shadow at the Lower East Side gallery On Stellar Rays. Candice Madey from On Stellar Rays and PEET will both be present for a conversation surrounding the exhibition. PEET's second solo show at the gallery includes recent paintings, ceramics, by-weekly video screenings, and a modular and mobile painting studio from which he has been working since June.
Member Preview of Fall Exhibitions
Sunday, September 12, 2010, 3:30 PM
Please join us for a special Member Preview of SculptureCenter's Fall Exhibitions. Executive Director Mary Ceruti will speak about the two Artist-In-Residence projects Lara Schnitger: Two Masters and Her Vile Perfume and Lovett/Codagnone with Tom Zook: Your Hero Is a Ghost. Curator Fionn Meade will also be on hand to talk about Elizabeth Neel: Stick Season and a new round of In Practice projects. Several of the artists will be present to talk about their work as well.
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.