Summer Exhibitions and Open Call Commissioning Program for NYC-Based Emerging Artists Continue Through August 25; Cinta Amarilla, a New Documentary Film About Beatriz González, Begins Screening July 31
Beatriz Gonzáles, Auras Anonimas (2009). Photo: Laura Jimenez. Courtesy the artist and Casas Riegner.
Admission is free for these programs unless otherwise noted.
Collision/Coalition:
This summer, The Shed is presenting three distinct yet interrelated new commissions in an exhibition that explores social and cultural confrontations and alliances. From July 31 through August 25, Beatriz Gonzáles joins artists Tony Cokes and Oscar Murillo as the third commission in the exhibition as the subject of a new 20-minute documentary film, Cinta Amarilla, directed by Yanina Valdivieso and Vanessa Bergonzoli.
Cinta Amarilla:
Gonzalez’s monumental public work Auras Anonimas (2009), an installation of 8,957 tombstones in Bogotá’s Central Cemetery in tribute to those that died due to armed conflict in Colombia’s civil war, is the central focus of the film. Sourcing imagery from newspapers and other media, González created silhouettes of soldiers carrying bodies in sheets and makeshift hammocks, which were then painted on mausoleums. This important memorial to the victims of violence is under threat of being demolished by Bogotá’s city administration. Creating a “counter-monument” through public art, González explores the meaning of memory, memorials, and mourning. Cinta Amarilla, produced by Display None and co-produced by Catalina Casas, will screen daily (except Mondays) through August 25.
Tony Cokes’s two new, immersive works form a diptych titled Before and After the Studio (2019). These videos, projected onto large LED screens, investigate the historic and contemporary role artists' studios play in shaping artworks and creating communities, with a focus on the architecture of the studio and its social role, as well as wider themes of urban development in New York City.
Two new series of large-scale abstract paintings by Oscar Murrillo and drawings the artist creates while traveling are also featured in Collision/Coalition. Matte black canvases, soaked in black paint and burned with an iron, hang from the gallery ceiling on hooks like draped flags, dividing the gallery space between Murillo and Cokes’s works.
Admission to
Collision/Coalition is free. Tickets are available at
theshed.org.
Jan Jelinek, August 24:
On August 24, in a special one-night-only performance beginning at 8:00 pm, German electronic musician Jan Jelinek will perform a pre-closing live set against Tony Cokes’s commissioned videos.
Jan Jelinek is a musician, producer, and remixer whose approach is about the transformation of sounds and devising a method for translating old Motown records or the excesses of funk into abstract, reduced electronics. Since 1998 he has been releasing records under a number of pseudonyms, including Gramm (pulsating minimal electronica) and Farben (soul records rearranged in subtle variations).
Tickets are $10 for this performance and will be available at
theshed.org beginning July 25.
Open Call:
Open Call is The Shed’s commissioning and programming initiative for New York-based emerging artists across all disciplines, which launched in May with new works presented in The Griffin Theater, and continues through August 25 with a group exhibition in the Level 2 Gallery. Beginning Friday, August 9, the third group of commissions launches in The Shed’s open-air Plaza (configured when the moveable “shell” is nested over the base building) and runs through August 25. The presentation is scheduled as follows:
Friday, August 9: The Illustrious Blacks at 7:30 pm
Saturday, August 10: Maya Lee-Parritz at 6 pm; Salsa Masala at 8 pm
Sunday, August 11: Madeline Hollander at 7 pm
Thursday, August 15: Vicente Hansen Atria and Mat Muntz at 6 pm; Justin Allen at 8 pm
Friday, August 16: nicHi douglas at 5 pm; Prince Harvey at 7:30 pm
Saturday, August 17: Extrapolation Factory at 11:00 am; Level Up Showcase (Harold ‘Fyütch’ Simmons) at 4:30 pm; MIPSTERZ at 8 pm
Sunday, August 18: nicHi douglas at 7 pm
Saturday, August 24: It’s Showtime NYC! at 4:30 pm; Saint Abdullahat 7:30 pm
Sunday, August 25: Ebony Noelle Golden at 3:30 pm; Thanushka Yakupitiyage at 5:30 pm
About The Shed:Located on Manhattan's west side, where the High Line meets Hudson Yards, The Shed commissions original works of art, across all disciplines, for all audiences. From hip hop to classical music, painting and sculpture to literature, film to theater and dance, The Shed brings together leading and emerging artists and thinkers from all disciplines under one roof. The building —a remarkable movable structure designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lead Architect, and Rockwell Group, Collaborating Architect—physically transforms to support artists' most ambitious ideas. Committed to nurturing artistic invention and bringing creative experiences to the broadest possible audiences, The Shed, led by Artistic Director and CEO Alex Poots, is a 21st-century space of and for New York City.
