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Arlene Shechet: Girl Group Now on View at Storm King Art Center

Debuting six new large-scale commissions along with complementary indoor works in wood, steel, ceramic, paper, and bronze, Girl Group harnesses the expressive power of geometry, line, color, and form in works displayed across Storm King’s hills, fields, and galleries.

On view May 4–November 10, 2024

 

The artist’s outdoor works are biomorphic yet baroque pieces that verge on architecture

Ariella Budick and the Financial Times reviews Arlene Shechet’s “Girl Group”

 

Ritualistic performance piece by Annie-B Parson amid monumental, brightly colored steel sculptures marks Upstate Art Weekend in New York’s Hudson Valley

Girl Group Performance: Arlene Shechet x Annie-B Parson is reviewed by The Art Newspaper’s Helen Stoilas

 

“The ‘proudly impure’ sculptor of inventive forms discusses process, the persistence of materials, and the qualities that make sculpture ‘ridiculously risky.’”

The sculptor’s Together: May Monday is featured on the cover of BOMB Magazine while being featured in an interview by Rebecca Smith

 

With “Girl Group,” her new show at the upstate art park, the 73-year-old sculptor invites visitors to pause in the present.

Cultured Mag’s Ella Martin-Gachot sits down with Arlene Shechet to discuss Girl Group.

 

Her monumental outdoor sculptures are now on view at Storm King in New York’s Hudson Valley

Katie White reviews Arlene Shechet’s Girl Group on view at Storm King Art Center

 

This spring, Storm King Art Center is getting a serious makeover.

The sculptor sits down with Art in America to discuss her exhibition at Storm King Art Center and how her practice has evolved leading to this moment.

 

A lot of contemporary sculpture is said to embody motion — in dynamic forms, in lively surface, etc. And certainly, sculpture does induce us to move around it and absorb its truths by way of multiple views. Arlene Shechet’s sculpture, though, seems to evince another kind of motion, too.

The sculptor sits down with Upstate Diary to discuss her upcoming exhibition at Storm King Art Center and where her work continues to move forward.

 

Arlene Shechet’s ‘Girl Group’ Nudges Heavy Metal Men at Storm King



Once known for ceramics, she now commands the rolling hills at the prestigious New York sculpture park with a chorus of six giant welded works.


The New York Times features Arlene Shechet and her upcoming exhibition at Storm King Art Center: “Girl Group”

 
Left: Arlene Shechet in the fabrication shop with a new outdoor commission for Storm King Art Center. Right: Shechet’s “May Monday” (2022)

“The idea of a Girl Group is that each sculpture functions alone - as a solo - and as a member of an ensemble”

The sculptor’s exhibition Girl Group is featured in The New York Times’

“The T List.”

 
Detail of Blue Sculpture with overlayed text saying "Frieze masters podcast, in collaboration with dunhill"

In Episode Four: On Studios, Wagstaff talks with Arlene Shechet, exploring how central the place and space of making is to Shechet’s work, as well as the significance of the studio in the realm of creativity. 

Now available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

 
 

On May 24, 2023, Arlene Shechet, along with Huma Bhabha, Yvonne Rainer, Shirin Neshat, were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.