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Hugh Hayden: Homecoming - Announcements - e-flux For his exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Hugh Hayden will mine memories from his childhood in Dallas, nodding to homelife, school, and play from youth to adolescence.

If you’ve visited the Nasher recently, you might have noticed the back corner of our garden is closed off due to a conservation project currently underway.🚧

We are repairing and repatinating Henry Moore’s ‘Working Model for Three Piece No. 3: Vertebrae,’ 1968.

Pick up a brochure at our front desk to learn more about this project and the conservation work that takes place at the Nasher!
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*This artwork will be back on view in our garden in the coming weeks once the conservation project is complete.

📣Early giving is now open for the North Texas Giving Day!

Every donation between now and September 19 goes directly to the Nasher Sculpture Center, helping to expand access to arts education experiences for students and families in North Texas.💚

Donate today: https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization/Nasher-Sculpture-Center

💭Next time you visit the Nasher, we invite you to take a moment to stop and admire our museum building, which was designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano.

Notice the subtle simplicity and symmetry of the staircase connecting our upper level galleries to our lower level gallery. The natural lighting pouring down from above creates a serene passage throughout the space.

Coming to the Nasher next month: ‘Samara Golden: if earth is the brain then where is the body.’ ✨

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.
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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).

There's only 1 week left to see 'Haas Brothers: Moonlight' at the Nasher!✨

Imbued with curiosity, humor, and passion for nature, their furniture, objects, and, most recently, large-scale sculptural installations awaken our imaginations and transport us to another fertile, fanciful, and futuristic world.

'Moonlight' is on view through August 25, 2024.
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🚨FINAL DAYS🚨 This weekend is your last chance to see ‘Sarah Sze’ at the Nasher! The exhibition is on view through August 18, 2024.

In her three site-specific installations, Sze creates a series of moments, activated by the viewers’ encounter with the works, that emphasize how experience is continually reshaped by the constant stream of visual information around us.
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All photos by Kevin Todora, courtesy of the Nasher Sculpture Center

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://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/art/exhibitions/exhibition/id/2081?hugh-hayden-homecoming

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.

Read more below👇🏽

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2024 Nasher Artist Grant Winners | News & Press - Press Release Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2024 Nasher Artist Grant Winners | News & Press - Press Release

Happy Birthday to one of the pioneers of modern sculpture, , who was in 1898. 🎂

Always finding inspiration in natural forms and found objects such as rocks, bones, and shells, Moore developed this abstract arrangement of organic forms from a pair of interlocking flint rocks he found near his home in England.

His sculpture in the Nasher’s garden, ‘Working Model for Three Piece No. 3: Vertebrae’ (1968), recalls a spinal column and suggests a reclining figure, a subject Moore explored throughout his career. In 1967, Raymond and Patsy Nasher visited Moore at his studio and saw the artist working with the interlocking stones. The next year, they purchased this sculpture inspired by those very stones.
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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://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2023/october/the-women-of-american-land-art/

👀 Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how the majestic ‘Strawberry Tree’ by the Haas Brothers was installed in our gallery space.

With a cast-bronze trunk and limbs, hand-beaded leaves and vines, illuminated blown glass strawberries, and a solid stone base, the ‘Strawberry Tree’ (2024) was no ordinary sculpture to install. Keep scrolling to see the final masterpiece!🍓

And don’t miss your chance to see ‘Haas Brothers: Moonlight’ on view at the Nasher through August 25.
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Install photos captured by our Head Registrar, Carra Henry.
Final photo shot by Kevin Todora.

‘The Guardian of the Fungus Garden’ (2023) by Marguerite Humeau comprises a multitude of natural materials that take the form of something otherworldly, even alien.

From its base of carved walnut, bronze branches tipped in glass radiate outward. Encased within the glass are cultures of termite mushroom (Termitomyces), a type of fungus that termites feed on and cultivate. The central terracotta component, evocative of a dying coral reef with its vibrant color fading to grey then black at the very top, encourages rumination on our impact on nonhuman life forms.

See this sculpture on view at the Nasher today!
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📷: Marguerite Humeau, ‘The Guardian of the Fungus Garden,’ 2023. Terracotta, pigments, 150-year-old walnut (cause of death: unknown), handblown glass, culture of termite mushroom (Termitomyces) and bronze. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube. Photo by Kevin Todora.

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👇🏽

Sarah Sze on Her Nasher Sculpture Center Exhibition Sarah Sze, February 3 – August 18, 2024For her exhibition at the Nasher, Sarah Sze invites viewers to become immersed in newly conceived works that explore h...

🪑Joseph Havel’s ‘Drought’ (1990) presents a dynamic arc of wooden chairs sprouting new branches, returning to their source.🌳

Havel’s work depicts embodiments of conundrums, physical manifestations of metaphysical queries. ‘Drought’ is the earliest work that chronicles Havel’s fruitful partnership with artist and master foundryman, Harry Geffert.

‘Drought’ is now on view on the Nasher Sculpture Center’s terrace.
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Joseph Havel, ‘Drought’ (1990), bronze, 100 x 75 x 42 in.) Gift of the Barrett Collection, Dallas, TX.

Enter into the world of Sarah Sze🔥

Don’t miss your chance to immerse yourself in the enchanting installations of Sarah Sze this summer.

On view through August 18. Get your tickets today -> https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/art/exhibitions/exhibition/id/2039

Magdalena Abakanowicz was born in 1930.

As a child in Poland during World War II, Abakanowicz lived through German and Soviet invasions, experiencing firsthand the horrors perpetrated by dehumanized masses under the sway of powerful leadership.

‘Bronze Crowd’ – which lives permanently in the Nasher’s garden – is made up of 36 over-life-size headless figures, quite literally unable to think for themselves, appearing identical from a distance and confronting the viewer in uniform rows. Much of her work deals with the effects of thinking and acting as a group.
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Immerse yourself in Sarah Sze’s installation ‘Slow Dance’ (2024) ✨

On view through August 18! Get your tickets today👇🏽
https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/art/exhibitions/exhibition/id/2039?sarah-sze
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Don’t miss our summer shows!💚

Thinking like a Surrealist... what do you see? 👀

Joan Miró often used the chair as a found object in his work between 1967 and 1969. Here it can be read either as a sturdy perch for an owl-like creature balanced on its top crosspiece and keeping a watchful eye on its small red "baby" below, or as the torso of a woman. In the latter case, the flat plaque at the top becomes the woman's head and the egg-like baby now sits in her lap.

In either interpretation, the playful analogies, bright colors, and tactile play of molten irregular form all proclaim the most pleasurable of Surrealist strategies!

Joan Miró's 'Seated Woman and Child (Femme assise et enfant), (1967) is on view at the Nasher this summer.🦉🪑

📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS📣

The Nasher Sculpture Center is now accepting applications for the 2024 Nasher Artist Grants in honor of Jeremy Strick. North Texas artists and artist collectives are encouraged to submit a proposal for grants for $2000 to be used directly on physical resources or endeavors that will further their artistic activity and practice.

Applications are due by June 30th.

Apply here: https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/programs-events/nasher-artist-grants
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Image artwork by 2023 Nasher Artist Grant recipient Felicia Jordan.

🏳️‍🌈Pride Scavenger Hunt now through June 18!

Follow the clues and you just might find yourself at the Nasher👀📍