Nasher Sculpture Center

Coming to the Nasher next month: ‘Samara Golden.’✨ For nearly 15 years, Los Angeles-based artist Samara Golden has been creating installations that deploy architecture and mirrors to create disquieting and disorienting environments. Her often mind-bogglingly complex installations can range from seemingly chaotic to quietly seething. Golden populates them with handmade domestic forms and textures using such materials as plastics, epoxy, and spray foam to construct a setting both familiar and ill-at-ease in its artificiality. 🔗 Learn more about this upcoming exhibition here: https://bit.ly/3T0mJ0j

The Nasher is proud to have acquired three drawings from Lita Albuquerque's ‘Language of Light' series. Albuquerque was one of the twelve land artists featured in the Nasher's 2023 exhibition ‘Groundswell: Women of Land Art! Drawings have always held a foundational place within Albuquerque's process. Within her pastel drawing series 'Language of Light, the artist saturates black paper with translucent fields of varying blue hues while white marks dance throughout the field and allude to a perception of forms. All three works strengthen the Nasher's holdings on drawings by sculptors, joining examples of artists referring to surrealist methods like automatic drawing and dream logic within their work. _ Images: Lita Albuquerque 'Ceremony of the Open Mouth Tripled, 'She is Bringing a Language of Light, ‘Ceremony of the Open Mouth, 2019. Pastel on black paper. 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm).

Opening next month at the Nasher: ‘Hugh Hayden: Homecoming.’ For his exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, New York-based artist Hugh Hayden will mine memories from his childhood in Dallas, nodding to homelife, school, and play from youth to adolescence. Working in the tradition of wood carving and carpentry, Hayden builds sculptures and installations that explore the idea of the “American Dream.” 🔗Learn more about this upcoming exhibition here: https://lnkd.in/gJx86dzM

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Nasher Artist Grants! 👏🏽 This year’s awardees span a variety of media and styles with projects that put communities at the forefront of their practice and shine a light on a range of critical contemporary issues. The 2024 grant awardees are: Clint Bargers, Fabian Guerrero, Bonny Leibowitz, Analise Minjarez, and Sweet Pass Sculpture Park (Trey Burns and Tamara Johnson). Read more below👇🏽

The Nasher Sculpture Center is proud to announce that we have been named Dallas' "Best Exhibition" for 'Groundswell: Women of Land Art' in D Magazine’s "Best of Big D" 2024! We are so honored! Dr. Leigh Arnold, the Nasher Sculpture Center's Curator, showcased the works of 12 significant women land artists last year. It's a genre long dominated by male artists, but 'Groundswell' challenged that notion and included a Mary Miss piece that marked the path of a buried Dallas stream. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gcjKikY3

Don’t miss your chance to see our ‘Sarah Sze’ exhibition, which is on view at the Nasher through August 18, 2024✨ And take a moment to hear what the artist herself has to say about her three immersive installations at the Nasher👇🏽

We’re #hiring for the role of a Visitor Experience Facilitator! See details below👇🏽

We are excited to recognize Vicki Meek for her latest accomplishments. After over a year of community collaboration and research, Vicki led an artist cohort at Nasher Sculpture Center that will debut five monuments in Dallas Tenth Street Historic District Freedman’s Town. “Nasher Public: Urban Historical Reclamation and Recognition” is a socially engaged public art project initiated and led by Vicki. The project will involve a collective of local artists and historians working together to create a contemporary 'monument' in collaboration with a Dallas community often overlooked in public history initiatives. We are thrilled to recognize Vicki and this community-focused transformative work. Image by: Todora Photography

Thank you Katy Diamond Hamer for this wonderful article on Art & Object covering the Nasher’s latest exhibition, ‘Haas Brothers: Moonlight.’✨ “As an exhibition, ‘Moonlight’ captures and shares the artists’ relationships with flora and fauna, but as with most of their work, the fauna are less like animals and closer to friendly monsters,” Hamer writes. Come see the whimsical works of the Haas Brothers on view at the Nasher through August 25, 2024. And read the full article below👇🏽

The 2nd annual Texas Visitor Experience Symposium, hosted and organized this year by the Amon Carter Museum, took place earlier this week. The Nasher’s Manager of Visitor Experiences, Isabel Lee-Rosson, represented the Nasher as a panelist in the panel “Engaging Staff and Volunteers in Visitor Experience.” We are proud of our Visitor Experience department, whose art historical expertise and welcoming presence is essential to the positive and insightful experiences we facilitate here at the Nasher for all our visitors.👏🏽