#Nasher Sculpture Center

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10.05.24 Hugh Hayden at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, TX

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"Slow Dance" one of the amazing installations by Sarah Sze at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Wish I could go there now and sit down in the corner forever.

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Otherworldly Flora and Futuristic Creatures by the Haas Brothers Illuminate the Nasher Sculpture Center Grounds

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Matty Healy with one of Alex Israel’s Sky Backdrop paintings

possibly taken at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, sometime between 2015-2018

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Sculpture by  Matthew Ronay.

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Free-flowing paint, the last part. These three contemporary artists seem to add something new to the conversation. Katharina Grosse, whose sprayed environments we looked at last week, allowed considerable movement of pigment to happen on the surface of the large canvas that was painted on-site for her Wunderblock installation of 2013. Adel Abdessemed is a multimedia artist whose work has political overtones; the translucent red material beading on his canvas support here is stage blood. Max Frintrop appears to look back to earlier artists, Paul Jenkins in particular, but Frintrop uses a wider variety of materials in his astonishing free compositions.

Katharina Grosse (German b. 1961). Wunderblock 2013. Acrylic on soil and canvas, 165 x 381 x 551 inches. Installation at Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. Source.

Untitled 2013. Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 143 1/4 x 237 3/4 inches. Source.

Adel Abdessemed (Algerian, b. 1971). Forbidden Colours 2018. Mixed media on canvas, 106 1/4 x 71 inches. Source.

Max Frintrop (German born 1982). Untitled (Allstar) 2020. Ink, acrylics, and pigments on canvas, 86 1/2 x 70 3/4 inches. Source.

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Isabel Lee-Rosson

Odes

March 5 - May 7, 2023

Reception: March 5, 1 - 3 pm

From  March 5 - May 7 Terrain Dallas will host artist Isabel Lee-Rosson’s Odes. Centered on the “consumption and degradation of the natural environment” Lee-Rosson’s works on paper and installation “explore how plants are simultaneously controlled and neglected in man-made landscapes”.

Lee-Rosson’s installation at Terrain is her second of a series titled Odes. Utilizing invasive flora from the surrounding neighborhood and traditional wattle weaving, Lee-Rosson has constructed a large conical shaped structure that references ancient dwellings. Its’ placement on a domesticated lawn of non-native St. Augustine grass at the Terrain site calls attention to the ways in which we as humans cultivate and curate the land around us, often without thought to the potential destruction of native habitats. The structure itself, filled with organic material, becomes a dwelling for organisms as it composts over the duration of the installation from March-May. Ultimately, the installation seeks to increase biodiversity, improve soil health, and call attention to harmful landscaping practices. 

Influenced by the work of women land artists, such as Agnes Denes, Maren Hassinger, and Ana Mendieta, Lee-Rosson’s expanded practice includes installations of guerrilla gardens and woven structures such as Odes. Calling attention to the deterioration of the environment while educating and offering solutions to these issues through composting techniques, Lee-Rosson’s Odes will improve the site of Terrain and offer the community an opportunity to see the beginning transformation of an invasive grass to a habitat that supports native flora, insects, and birds.

Isabel Lee-Rosson is an artist and art historian from Abilene, TX and is currently based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Lee-Rosson earned a Master of Arts in Art History, Criticism, and Conservation from the University of North Texas in 2017 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Two-Dimensional Design from Abilene Christian University in 2015. In 2019, she presented her research at the Arts Patronage in Modern America: International Conference at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, and in 2022 she was a panelist for the Global Humanities Symposium: Engaging in Cultural Diplomacy hosted by The Meridian Center for Cultural Diplomacy and the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington D.C. She currently works as the Manager of Visitor Experience at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas.

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I love this so much. An ancient early human 2.5 million years ago saw a pebble and was like 'heehee it looks like a face!' and carried it with them for so long and so far away and brought it to a cave just because they liked it. So far in fact that the kind of stone the face-pebble is made of is not found in that area so its very clearly someone picking it up and keeping it cause it's cool looking.

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Otherworldly Flora and Futuristic Creatures by the Haas Brothers Illuminate the Nasher Sculpture Center Grounds

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Haas Brothers: Moonlight May 11, 2024 - August 25, 2024 | Exhibition

The Haas Brothers, fraternal twins who launched a collaborative practice in 2010, create playful environments populated with fantastical flora and fauna.

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. 

Haas Brothers: Moonlight is presented across three spaces inside and outside the Nasher Sculpture Center, with whimsical and powerful installations that highlight the artists’ distinctive fusion of art, design, and technology. In front of the museum, two Moon Towers—inspired by the iconic streetlamps the brothers remember from their childhood in Austin, Texas—greet visitors from the sidewalk.

The tall, glowing sculptures function as streetlamps, recalling both the Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí’s organic architecture and the French designer Hector Guimard’s sinuous art nouveau forms.  

The Moon Towers create a visual connection to a majestic cast-bronze tree in the Nasher’s Public Gallery, visible inside and from the street-facing window.

With a cast-bronze patinated trunk and hand-beaded leaves and limbs laden with illuminated blown glass strawberries, The Strawberry Tree (2023) evokes a moonlit garden. Visitors are invited to enjoy this serene garden of far-from-earthly delights. 

In the sculpture garden, an eight-foot-tall Emergent Zoid from one of the artists’ newest bodies of work will join sculptures from the Nasher’s permanent collection.

The Emergent Zoids are a series of curvaceous sculptures made through an ingenious combination of computation and craft. Using 3D computer graphics software, the Haas Brothers created simulated shapes reminiscent of one of their favorite childhood toys, the Wooden Wiggly Snake, and choreographed their movements digitally.

The brothers call the shapes Zoids, in homage to Dr. Zoidberg, a central character in Matt Groening’s animated television series “Futurama.”

Computer simulations will be shown in the Entrance Gallery, showing the biomorphic shapes writhe, wriggle, undulate, and intertwine, in infinite permutations of the initial form.  

The Nasher Sculpture Center's 2024 exhibitions are made possible by leading support from Frost Bank. 

Haas Brothers: Moonlight is made possible by leading support from Melanie and Alvaro Leal. Generous support is provided by Citizens of Humanity, the Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District (DTPID), Jennifer and John Eagle, Nancy C. and Richard R. Rogers, and Cindy and Howard Rachofsky. Additional support is provided by Jenny and Richard Mullen. 

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Check out Lita Albuquerque, Spine of the Earth (1980), From Nasher Sculpture Center

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Antonio Velardo shares: Director of Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas to Retire in 2024 by Sarah Bahr

By Sarah Bahr Jeremy Strick, who helmed the institution for 15 of its 20 years, established the Nasher Prize for Sculpture, one of the art world’s top honors. Published: November 2, 2023 at 12:02PM from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/ajbDs9O via IFTTT