Welcome to THE PLAN - an online guide to contemporary art exhibitions throughout New York City. Each PLAN is created and posted for shows that are currently on view, but are built as virtual tours that can be used after an exhibition has closed. Each guide includes:
* a detailed listing of selected exhibitions on view — usually 3 - 4 shows
* additional information about the artists
* questions and other guided looking exercises to deepen your art experience
* follow-up activities and/or resources, including but not limited to videos, photos, and links
The PLAN is developed by experienced educators Dorothea Basile and Nathan Sensel who provide 20 PLANs throughout the gallery season (September - June).
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Dorothea Basile
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This PLAN features four artists exploring the transformational properties of materials, ideas, and subject matter. First up, Anthony Goicolea investigates his past, exploring the mythical stories of his parents. An interesting exhibition of personal historyand ancestory becoming art. In “Three Ways of Looking at the Earth,” Maya Lin imagines the surface of the earth from different perspectives. Using wood and wire, Lin creates an imaginative version of geographical phenomena (real and fictional) creating a new psychological space. Artist Hans Peter Feldmann presents a shadowy world of artifacts that are not what they seem, or are they? Dolls, tchotchkes and throw-away items are magnified by light into a swirling new dancing world, or is it that the shadows become small, ordinary sculptures? Finally, Marc Andre Robinson’s show called “You Are the Current, I Am the Wire” presents objects and images that electrify everyday objects with possibility. Ordinary chairs are cobbled together into gigantic, splendid thrones.
Downtown Brooklyn plays host to two exhibitions that relate to the surrounding areas in interesting and very different ways. At galleries next door to each other, experience what seems to be a fantastical forest of giant trees made from red craft paper and a scale model map of the oil-dependent world built from recycled plastic. Both engage issues central to our relationship to the environment while maintaining a strong connection to world you see through the windows. Featuring artists Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen Nguyen and Ellen Driscoll.
For Celestial Bodies– The PLAN, we look at four artists that are known as minimalists, but approach their investigations into space, mass and the motion of earth-bound bodies in different ways. Dan Flavin electrifies the gallery space using fluorescent light — the light washes over the entire space creating a new, light-weight environment. Richard Serra on the other hand, uses cor-ten, or weatherproof steel walls to create twisted and torqued alleyways that seem crushingly heavy. Collaborators Peter Fischli and David Weiss present a global pop spectacle contained in a pristine world. We’ve suggested an order for you to experience the installations below, but you can choose to visit them in any order!
Discover the collaborative processes of three different artists creating work that record the personal and collective experiences of absence, loss, memory, and change. Alighiero e Boetti works with Afghan craftswomen to map the world. David Dunlap creates hundreds ofjournals with students and friends and presents them and other works in a clubhouse structure built inside the gallery. And Su-Mei Tse and her partner Jean-Lu Majerus present several sculptures and sound installations inspired by music, art and tradition.
The work of Gerhard Richter, James Brooks, and David Hockney challenge the notion that “painting is dead” and in fact demonstrate it’s alive and well and exciting! Richter, considered one of the greatest living painters explores new cycles of painting from large-scale nearly-white abstractions to small-scale colorful lacquer on glass. Brooks’ work from the 1970s allows us to re-discover the lyrical pleasures of Abstract Expressionism by one of its original members. Described in his native country as “Britain’s most famous living artist”, Hockney turns his attention to painting landscapes “en plein air” meaning outdoors, something he’s never done before!