Great day at the Bell Gallery today, as we unpacked the ceramic works that are part of the 2015 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Biennial that we are hosting.
The exhibition opens Saturday, January 24th. An opening reception will be held Friday, January 30th, beginning at 5:30 pm in List Art Lobby. See you there!
Our team is working non-stop to install Orly Genger’s YOU on the quiet green at Brown University. Below the work in progress. We’ve also got a live feed of the installation running, which you can check out here.
The rope arrives!
Orly Genger uses recycled lobster rope to construct her monumentally scaled sculptural interventions in public places. For the next two weeks she will be building YOU, a new site-specific installation on Brown University’s campus. To see Genger and her team in action stop by the quite green during daylight hours November 3-12. Or, check back in here, on Re:Bell, where we will be posting frequent updates.
Taking the first pallet off the truck.
On November 21st Genger will be back on campus to talk about the work and celebrate its completion (Conversation at 5:30 in List Art Auditorium; reception at 6:30 on the quiet green).
YOU will be on view November 2014-Summer 2015.
Background: Jenny Saville, Hybrid (1997), Oil on Canvas, 108″x84″
Private collection © Jenny Saville
Foreground: Rebecca Warren, L (2009), Reinforced clay on MDF sheet on wheels, 59 1/2″ x 54″ x 25″
Private collection © Rebecca Warren
Check out some photographs taken while installing SHE: Picturing Women at the Turn of the 21st Century. The exhibition opens this Saturday, October 25th. Opening reception is Friday, October 24th, 5:30-7:30. Please join us to celebrate!
Left: George Condo, The Banker’s Wife, 2011, oil on linen, 74” x 72”, Private collection. © George Condo. Image courtesy Skarstedt Gallery.
Right: Jenny Saville, Hybrid, 1997, oil on canvas, 108″ x 84, Private collection, © Jenny Saville. Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery
Installing Jeff Koons’s Gazing Ball (Ariadne), 2012-2013, Plaster and glass, 44 5/16″ x 93 7/8″ x 36 5/8″, Private Collection. © Jeff Koons
Martin Puryear’s Slavery Memorial was installed on Brown University’s campus this week. Check out images of the process below.
Technicians placing the 10 ton sculpture in the ground.
Martin Puryear and Andrew Pharmer of Polich Tallix looking over the Monument’s finish.
Check out the Bell Gallery team installing Tristan Perich’s Microtonal Wall, 2011 at the the Cohen Gallery.
The installation is part of the exhibition Audible Spaces: Tristan Perich, Zarouhie Abdalian, [The User]. The Microtonal Wall will be open to the public this Saturday, 8/23. Stay tuned for behind the scenes images of the rest of the installation next week, and join us for an evening of Artist Talks on 9/5!
Artist Nick Bibby with his sculpture, “Indomitable,” the newest addition to Brown University’s public art collection.
The Providence Journal’s Billy Van Siclen toured Brown University’s exciting public art collection with Bell Gallery Director Jo-Conklin. Read the whole story here. For more information about public art at Brown visit our website.
The world-renowned sculptor, Martin Puryear, came to campus yesterday to help site the Slavery Memorial that he has designed for Brown University. The Bell Gallery’s preparatory team built a full-scale model of the memorial, which was used to determine where the final version will be placed. The memorial will be made of ductile cast iron and granite, and it will live on the front green (also known as the quiet green) next to Hope College. The dedication is planned for next fall. Below are some images of the artist at work.
Sculptor Martin Puryear (right) and project manager John Cooke siting full-scale model of the Memorial to Slavery and Justice.
This week we were sorry to say goodbye to Paul Ramirez Jonas’s “The Commons” but we look forward to Part 2 of our Alumni Exhibition opening on April 12th featuring Sarah Morris, Rob Reynolds and Taryn Simon.
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