STORM KING ART CENTER ANNOUNCES MAJOR ARLENE SHECHET EXHIBITION OPENING MAY 4, 2024

STORM KING ART CENTER ANNOUNCES  MAJOR ARLENE SHECHET EXHIBITION  OPENING MAY 4, 2024 Featuring six monumental new commissions that press the boundaries of outdoor sculpture, along with related ceramic sculptures and modular benches Arlene Shechet in fabrication shop with new outdoor commission for Storm King Art Center; photo by David Schulze Mountainville, NY, January 9, 2024 — Storm King Art Center announces Lookout, is pleased to announce Arlene Shechet: Girl Group, the most ambitious exhibition yet of Arlene Shechet’s outdoor sculpture, and the first to pair this body of work with her iconic indoor ceramics. On view May 4–November 10, 2024, the exhibition will debut six new large-scale commissions—spanning heights of ten to twenty feet and lengths of up to thirty feet—along with complementary indoor works in wood, steel, and ceramic. Shechet’s Girl Group responds to and expands upon the legacy and techniques of post-war and contemporary sculpture at Storm King through the artist’s signature emphasis on process, color, and form.   Girl Group asserts a feminine sensibility across Storm King’s hills, fields, and galleries. This series of sculptures adapts the monumental vocabulary of Storm King to Shechet’s unique voice. Recognized as a leading sculptor who has radicalized ceramics, Shechet now takes on industrial materials and inaugurates a new phase of her work. She brings an array of vibrant colors—pinks, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, and purples—to Storm King's terrain for the first time. The works in Girl Group incorporate nature as material by harnessing it as negative space and reflected image.   Artist Arlene Shechet says, “For a sculptor, Storm King is ‘the promised land’: a landscape of rolling hills, mountain views, and fields populated with significant works by renowned artists. I am honored and thrilled to join the dialogue at this historic place and coax it forward with my exhibition Girl Group.”   “This exhibition is exemplary of Storm King’s collaborative approach to exhibition making—the creative support we offer and our incomparable landscape invite artists to achieve new and ambitious directions in their practice,” said Nora Lawrence, Storm King’s Artistic Director and Chief Curator. “Arlene’s work is bold and audacious, and visitors will certainly feel the pulse of the new sculptures she has created for Storm King across our landscape.”   Arlene Shechet: Girl Group has grown from the artist’s work in ceramics—specifically her recent Together series—which will be displayed in the Museum Building galleries. Developing the new outdoor sculptures over the course of three years, Shechet prioritized process and improvisation over pre-conception by alternating between digital means and intuitive handmade methods—always finalizing with the handmade. While large in scale, the works retain the sense of gesture, touch, and bold color found in the artist’s earlier lauded artworks. The new sculptures are comprised of welded and constructed steel and aluminum, each incorporating two colors shifting from glossy to matte, as well as planes of unpainted metal. Shechet’s expertise with color is evident in her palette. Far from standard or primary, the colors for Midnight (2023-24) are between pink and orange; for Rapunzel (2023-24), somewhere between blue and purple. The particularities of the sculptures’ forms and lines impart an idiosyncratic character rare to encounter at this scale, seeming to teeter at the edge of physical possibility.   Eric Booker, Storm King’s Associate Curator says, “Arlene’s sculptures resist static definition, eschewing differences between beauty and humor, industrial and hand-made, and even front and back in favor of a more contradictory and vibrant reality. Taken together, the works in Girl Group challenge preconceived notions of monumental sculpture, revealing the ways in which Arlene has continually reinvented the sculptural form.”   As distinct as each individual sculpture is, Girl Group functions as an ensemble. Like a musical band whose harmonies the show’s title evokes, Shechet’s sculptures make rhythms together. Installed throughout the landscape and gesturing dynamically toward one another, they create frames for nature and sky. Experiential works that change as a viewer moves around them, the sculptures’ stillness prompts the viewer’s movement. And for those who wish to pause and further contemplate the works, a new series of artist-designed benches provides seating close to Shechet’s spirited outdoor forms.   Arlene Shechet: Girl Group will be on view May 4–November 10, 2024, and will be accompanied by a robust calendar of public programs, including an outdoor performance produced in collaboration with Shechet. The exhibition is co-curated by Storm King’s Artistic Director and Chief Curator Nora Lawrence and Associate Curator Eric Booker, with Adela Goldsmith, Curatorial Assistant. NOTES TO EDITORS About Storm King Art Center Storm King Art Center is a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley, where visitors experience large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under open sky. Since 1960, Storm King has been dedicated to stewarding the hills, meadows, and forests of its site and surrounding landscape. Building on the visionary thinking of its founders, Storm King supports artists and some of their most ambitious works. Changing exhibitions, programming, and seasons offer discoveries with every visit. stormking.org Instagram @StormKingArtCenter | Facebook Storm King Art Center | X @StormKingArtCtr About Arlene Shechet Elected in 2023 as a lifetime member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and recognized by the College Art Association with the Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work (2016), Arlene Shechet has changed the landscape of ceramics since working with clay in 2006. She has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, including the 20-year survey All At Once at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2015), and Full Steam Ahead, installed in Madison Square Park, New York (2018). Her many curatorial projects include Porcelain, No Simple Matter, The Frick Collection, New York (2016); From Here on Now, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2016); Making Knowing, The Drawing Center, New York (2021); STUFF, Pace Gallery, New York (2022); and Disrupt the View, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2022–25), currently on view. Recognized with grants from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation, Shechet’s work is held in over fifty public collections worldwide, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley.   Visitor Information Storm King will reopen for the 2024 season in April.   Hours – Starting April 2024 Wednesday – Monday, 10:00AM – 5:30PM Closed Tuesdays   Tickets Advance tickets are recommended. Onsite tickets are limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Members enjoy free, ticketless admission any time during open hours. For the most up-to-date information on ticket availability, amenities, and hours, please see stormking.org/visit.   Discounted Admission Storm King is pleased to offer discounted admission to the following visitors. ·   SNAP participants/EBT cardholders via Museums for All ·   Active military and their family via the Blue Star Program ·   Storm King Partner School students, families, and educators ·   Modern and Contemporary Reciprocal Membership Program (Mod/Co) ·   American Association of Museum (AAM) Members ·   International Committee of Museums (ICOM) ·   Staff of other museums   Digital Guide – Bloomberg Connects The Storm King digital guide is available for free on the Bloomberg Connects cultural app. Make the most of your visit with interactive activities, audio and video commentary by artists and Storm King staff, suggested routes, and more—anywhere, anytime from on your mobile device. Download the Bloomberg Connects app >

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STORM KING ART CENTER  APPOINTS KELLIE HONEYCUTT  AS CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Honeycutt to work alongside Storm King’s President John Stern and Artistic Director and Chief Curator Nora Lawrence commencing December 2022   She joins the Art Center following her nearly 12-year tenure at Public Art Fund  where she played a transformative role as Deputy Director Mountainville, NY, November 22, 2022—Storm King Art Center announces the appointment of Kellie Honeycutt to the position of Chief Operating Officer. Honeycutt will be the first to hold the title at Storm King, which has in the last decade experienced exponential growth in its visitorship, collection, and seasonal and year-round programming. Honeycutt will report to John P. Stern, Storm King’s President since 2012, and will work alongside Nora Lawrence, the Art Center’s Artistic Director and Chief Curator, streamlining the museum’s leadership under Stern within operations and artistic programming.   The Chief Operating Officer position was created early this year as part of Storm King’s long-term vision for growth—further reflected in its ongoing Capital Project, which encompasses vital capital, landscape, and environmental measures designed to enhance visitor experience, significantly improve site accessibility, and protect the Art Center’s world-renowned collection and 500-acre landscape.   After a rigorous recruiting process led by Sally Sterling Executive Search, Honeycutt was selected to work in collaboration with Storm King’s senior leadership team and Board of Directors, advancing the Art Center’s mission and strategic vision, as well as its impact and visibility through management of fundraising, communications, audience development and engagement, finance, human resources, facilities, and visitor experience. She joins Storm King from Public Art Fund, the New York City-based non-profit organization dedicated to bringing contemporary art to urban public and outdoor spaces, where, since 2010, she has held leadership positions, most recenty Deputy Director.   Honeycutt said: “I have long admired Storm King—nowhere else do art and landscape come together so harmoniously to create an inspiring, surprising, and joyous experience for people of all backgrounds. The new Capital Project represents a transformative opportunity that will enhance how visitors, artists, staff, and the community experience everything that makes the Art Center unique. I am honored to join at such a pivotal moment for the institution and look forward to partnering with the dynamic Board and talented team to enrich the culture of the organization, steward its more-than 60-year legacy, and build an exciting and inclusive future together.”   John P. Stern said: “We warmly welcome Kellie to Storm King. Her ability to foster strong relationships among staff, Trustees, and partners to achieve shared success and meaningful growth will make her a significant part of Storm King’s leadership team and overall culture. As our extraordinary Capital Project helps strengthen Storm King for the future, I look forward to working with Kellie to advance our mission and initiatives—including the commitment to being an inclusive and accessible place for everyone.”   With more than 20 years of experience in the arts, Honeycutt has a demonstrated history of championing initiatives and practices that adapt to new opportunities, enhance effectiveness, and increase impact. During her nearly 12-year tenure at Public Art Fund, Honeycutt collaborated with the organization’s Board of Trustees, staff leadership, artists, partners, and stakeholders, tripling its staff, budget, and fundraising capacity. As Deputy Director, she led the organization through the COVID-19 pandemic and spearheaded significant institutional priorities, including its ambitious five-year strategic plan and critical inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility initiatives. Prior to that role, Honeycutt served as Public Art Fund’s Director of Institutional Advancement from 2017 to 2019 and Communications Director from 2010 to 2016. Nora Lawrence said: “Kellie is a visionary leader—something that is clear from her success at Public Art Fund—and I am thrilled that Storm King will benefit from her expertise and energy. I look forward to working together, supporting artists and new creative programs, collaborating with colleagues and partners, and deepening engagement with art and nature among Storm King’s audiences.”   Honeycutt will assume her position effective December 5, 2022.

NOTES TO EDITORS   About Storm King Art Center Storm King Art Center is a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley, where visitors experience large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under open sky. Since 1960, Storm King has been dedicated to stewarding the hills, meadows, and forests of its site and surrounding landscape. Building on the visionary thinking of its founders, Storm King supports artists and some of their most ambitious works. Changing exhibitions, programming, and seasons offer discoveries with every visit.    stormking.org   Instagram: @StormKingArtCenter | Facebook: Storm King Art Center Twitter: @StormKingArtCtr | #StormKing   Visitor Information 2022 Season: April 6 – December 11, 2022 ​​Storm King will be closed starting December 12 and will reopen in January 2023 for Winter Weekends.    Hours Sunday – Monday: 10AM – 4:30PM Tuesday: Closed Wednesday – Saturday: 10AM – 4:30PM *Final entry at 3PM   Closed Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2022   Tickets Timed-entry tickets are required and must be reserved in advance. Members may visit without an advance reservation, any time during open hours. Ticket entry times are available on a first-come, first-served basis. For the most up-to-date information on ticket availability, amenities, and hours, please see stormking.org/visit.   Discounted Admission Storm King is pleased to offer discounted admission for the 2022 season to the following visitors. Tickets using these discounts must be requested via the Free Admission Request Form at stormking.org/tickets. SNAP participants/EBT cardholders via Museums for All Active military and their family via the Blue Star Program Caregiver accompanying a visitor with a disability Storm King Partner School students, families, and educators Qualifying members of Modern and Contemporary Reciprocal Program museums (Mod/Co) American Association of Museum (AAM) members International Committee of Museums (ICOM) members Staff of other museumsWant aa #stormjungartcenter#fineartmagazine

STORM KING PRESENTS INDICATORS: ARTISTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE FEATURING WORKS BY MORE THAN A DOZEN ARTISTS THAT EXPLORE THE CHANGING CLIMATE On view from May 19 through November 11, 2018

STORM KING PRESENTS INDICATORS: ARTISTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE FEATURING WORKS BY MORE THAN A DOZEN ARTISTS THAT EXPLORE THE CHANGING CLIMATE  On view from May 19 through November 11, 2018

Mary Mattingly, Proposal for Storm King in Zone 10, courtesy the artist.

Mountainville, NY, March 8, 2018—This May, Storm King Art Center will present Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, an exhibition featuring artworks by more than a dozen artists. Works included in the exhibition explore the impacts of the changing climate in ways that incorporate scientific, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives. Artists will reveal how the acts of making and viewing art differ in both approach and effect from research, advocacy, or reportage on this multifaceted subject. Both indoor and outdoor installations, including pieces newly created for the exhibition at Storm King, will illuminate the threats of a changing climate to our biological world and to humanity. Indicators provides artists with a platform from which to reflect on the topic of climate change by creating works that can command attention for difficult subjects and catalyze creativity, ideas, and solutions. John P. Stern, President of Storm King, says, “From its founding in 1960, Storm King has prioritized environmental projects including land conservation, reclamation of industrial sites for sensitive landscaping for art using native plants, and preservation of wildlife habitat corridors in the Hudson Valley. This exhibition features artists whose site-sensitive and site-specific works resonate with Storm King’s mission and history of environmental stewardship and that further the dialogue between art and nature while also speaking to broader issues that affect regional, national, and global ecological health.” The organizers of the exhibition are Nora Lawrence, Curator; David Collens, Director and Chief Curator; and Sarah Diver, Curatorial Assistant, who collaborated closely with artists to develop their ideas and proposed projects for the exhibition. Participating artists include: David Brooks, Dear Climate, Mark Dion, Ellie Ga, Justin Brice Guariglia, Allison Janae Hamilton, Jenny Kendler, Maya Lin, Mary Mattingly, Mike Nelson, Steve Rowell, Gabriela Salazar, Tavares Strachan, Meg Webster, and Hara Woltz. “With its mission to foster the bond between art, nature, and visitors, Storm King’s 500-acre setting offers a stunning backdrop for an exhibition of this kind, one that explores new ways for the public to understand the effects of climate change and, hopefully, take action to help curb its advances,” explains Lawrence. Many artists have created new, site-specific works that use Storm King’s unique landscape and location to examine the challenges and repercussions of this global issue. Although united by this overarching theme, works included in Indicators span a variety of media and represent a wide spectrum of interpretations, perspectives, and ideas related to climate change. For his newly created work, Permanent Field Observations, artist David Brooks (b. 1975) has identified several natural elements found throughout Storm King’s peripheral wooded areas to cast in bronze. Brooks will cast objects, like rotting tree stumps, tangles of roots, acorns perched atop emerging rocks, and other naturally occurring minutia, and install the bronze renditions back in their original locations, next to the objects from which they were cast, where they will remain permanently affixed in place. These elements that were chosen for their compositional sensibility are, in his words, “ephemeral sculptural situations that act as veritable ready-mades.” Brooks is interested in the relationship between geologic and human timelines; hence, the bronze-cast elements will be in-situ forever, like fossils detailing this climate moment for future generations and species. A map on view in the Museum Building gallery plots the precise locations of these fossilized field observations, which visitors can use to perform their own search for the objects. This project reveals the frustration involved in looking for something difficult to apprehend, like climate change itself. Dear Climate (2014–ongoing) is a creative-research project that hacks the aesthetics of public information posters and guided meditation podcasts to shift ways of thinking and feeling about the climate. In this, their first outdoor installation, Dear Climate circles Storm King’s first tram stop with a series of banners that invite visitors to reconsider their relationships to species life and climate change. Dear Climate is: Marina Zurkow, Una Chaudhuri, Fritz Ertl, and Oliver Kellhammer. A sculpture by Mark Dion (b. 1961) will be situated near the pond in Storm King’s South Fields. Recently featured in Prospect.4 New Orleans, the work is entitled Field Station for the Melancholy Marine Biologist, and is a weathered wooden cabin filled with the trappings of a scientific lab station. Once installed at Storm King, the contents of the “lab” will reflect the ecology of the surrounding area, highlighting Dion’s practice of appropriating archaeological and scientific methods to question authoritative knowledge about our environments.   Selections from The Fortunetellers, a multimedia project by Ellie Ga (b. 1976), will be on display inside in the Museum Building. The project centers on the artist's experience as a crewmember aboard the 'Tara,' the second boat in recorded Arctic history built to withstand the pressure of pack ice for years at a time. A reflection of her five-month expedition near the North Pole, the project constructs a visual narrative of Ga’s experience as a resident artist alongside the climate scientists and fellow crew aboard the ship, as they collected data to measure and contribute to a future understanding of the Arctic pack ice. The details Ga chooses to highlight are rich with larger symbolism. Ga and the crew aboard the Tara were themselves obsessed with their own future: how long they would keep drifting and when they would get back home. Tarot cards (an element of the installation reminiscent of the ship’s name) signify the uncertainty of this future, and the lines of a palm reading conjure up the image of prematurely cracking ice. Artist and environmental activist Justin Brice Guariglia (b. 1974) will present a group of topographical works inside the Museum building, featuring aerial imagery of landscapes affected by human activities including mining and agriculture. Guariglia's surprisingly beautiful images incorporate traditional art materials and precious metals—including copper, gold, and platinum—that have been abraded with power tools. Guariglia will also debut a large outdoor work entitled Ecologisms (Highway Sign 1.0), a solar-powered traffic sign that displays three-line ecological aphorisms written by the philosopher Timothy Morton, whose work lies at the intersection of object-oriented thought and ecological studies. These ominous but often amusing slogans point to the complicity of mankind in changes to the planet. Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984), a New York-based visual artist, will create a new work entitled The peo-ple cried mer-cy in the storm, comprising a towering stack of tambourines on an island in one of Storm King’s ponds. The installation was inspired by “Florida Storm,” a 1928 hymn written by Judge Jackson about the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, as well as accounts of the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, referenced in Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.  Both storms devastated the state of Florida, the latter killing thousands of black migrant workers who were buried in unmarked mass graves. The work contemplates how climate-related disasters can expose existing social inequities and how affected communities contend with this twofold devastation. A performance will activate the installation at Storm King, involving musicians presenting a soundscape arranged by Hamilton and inspired by the original “Florida Storm.” Jenny Kendler (b.1980), Chicago-based artist and current artist-in-residence with the Natural Resources Defense Council, drew inspiration for her site-specific commission, Birds Watching, from researching local species of birds present in the Hudson Valley. She will present an installation of reflective aluminum signs, each depicting a massively scaled, realistic bird’s eye. Some 50-100 eyes will be included, each representing a species of native bird facing the threat of extinction due to climate change. Kendler emphasizes ideas of reflectivity and reciprocal vision, reminding us that birds are also sentient beings capable of looking back at us. Brooklyn-based artist Mary Mattingly (b. 1978) will expand upon her past investigations into issues of sustainability, climate change, and displacement in her project, planting several different types of tropical trees, mainly palms, in Storm King’s South Fields. In conversation with the migration of tree species due to climate change, Mattingly’s work offers a visible demonstration of the reverberations of climate change within Storm King’s environment by transforming the landscape. Mike Nelson (b. 1967), a British artist best known for his labyrinthine architectural installations, will present a work inside the Museum Building entitled 80 Circles Through Canada: The Last Possessions of an Orcadian Mountain Man (2013). Informed by his friend and collaborator, the artist and mountaineer Erlend Williamson, the piece comprises a large set of driftwood shelves laden with Williamson’s last possessions before falling to his death in the Scottish Highlands. The reverse of the structure acts as a screen on which to project 80 transparencies of discarded stone fire circles, found and documented between Banff and Vancouver in 2012-13. The exhibition at Storm King marks the first time this work will be shown in the United States. A New York-based artist of Puerto Rican descent, Gabriela Salazar (b.1981) will incorporate her family’s history as coffee growers into a built environment in dialogue both with post-hurricane temporary shelters erected in the Caribbean and the semilleros used to protect young coffee seedlings. The installation will feature a tent structure draped with a blue tarp over a platform of cinderblock forms made from both concrete and compressed coffee grounds. Throughout the course of the exhibition, Salazar will exchange select concrete blocks for blocks made of coffee grounds, which will slowly disintegrate. These precarious blocks will leave a new and ever-shifting imprint upon the space, reiterating its impermanence. Salazar’s project raises difficult questions regarding the use of concrete, a material that is vital to climate-change-related hurricane protection and building, yet whose manufacture is also one of the largest sources of carbon emissions in the world. A work by Tavares Strachan (b. 1979), a New York-based artist who represented the Bahamas in the 2013 Venice Biennale, utilizes scientific and cultural phenomena to explore misconceptions within social conversations. Strachan’s blue neon sculpture, entitled Sometimes Lies are Prettier (2017), will be on view in Storm King’s indoor galleries. Artist Hara Woltz (b. 1971) will present a work that creates a varied sensory experience incorporating aspects of climate change, predictability, and the collection of data. Weather stations capture and record climate data and contribute to understanding of how environments change over time. A weather station may consist of a single piece of equipment that serves multiple functions, or multiple instruments arrayed across a landscape. Woltz will position ten interactive elements, fabricated from painted aluminum and wood, as part of a weather station where visitors will be encouraged to sit and experience the differences in temperature between various material and color sections. The elements of the piece will be informed by predictions of Arctic sea ice melt by decade and related sea level rise, as well as the process of collecting climate data. A temperature differential between the materials and surfaces of this piece will allow visitors to feel and consider the reflectivity of ice and the heat absorptive properties of sea water. Details of works by Maya Lin, Meg Webster, Steve Rowell, and others included in the exhibition will be announced in coming months. Exhibition Catalogue The illustrated exhibition catalogue will include texts on each work in the exhibition; often in the artists’ own words. It will also include an essay by Curator Nora Lawrence, which will speak to larger themes of works in the exhibition, and reflect on the importance of an exhibition of this nature at Storm King. The catalogue will be available in the Storm King Museum Shop and online beginning June 2018. About Storm King Art Center Widely celebrated as one of the world’s leading sculpture parks, Storm King Art Center has welcomed visitors from across the globe for over fifty years. Located only one hour north of New York City, in the lower Hudson Valley, its 500 acres of rolling hills, woodlands, and fields of native grasses and wildflowers provide the setting for a collection of more than 100 carefully-sited sculptures created by some of the most acclaimed artists of our time, including Alice Aycock, Mark di Suvero, Andy Goldsworthy, Zhang Huan, Maya Lin, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, and Ursula von Rydingsvard. Storm King’s 2018 season runs from April 4 through December 8, 2018. For more information, visit: www.stormking.org. #fineartmagazine