BARD GRADUATE CENTER Richard Tuttle: What is the Object?, on view at the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) from February 25 through July 10, 2022, will explore the meaning of objects for Tuttle, an inveterate collector whose taste, like his art, is eclectic and very personal. Visitors will be invited to touch and interact with 75 items, ranging from ceramic teacups and decorative sculptures to vintage fabrics and antique curios, drawn from his collection. The exhibition will also feature some of Tuttle’s art works as well as sculptural furniture he designed to display the objects.
Conserving Active Matter will also be on view at BGC February 25 through July 10, 2022. For as long as people have made and kept things, they have cared for and repaired them. Through objects that span five continents and range in time from the Paleolithic to the present, Conserving Active Matter explores the ways conservators keep alive—and bring back to life—the things that sustain us. BGC and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art provided support for an innovative digital project, Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest, the first online exhibition to showcase the American Museum of Natural History’s collection of Indigenous textiles from the greater American Southwest. The project elevates the voices of contemporary Native artists and makers to express the cultural legacy and continued vibrancy of weaving traditions in the region. Richard Tuttle, photo by Melissa Goodwin
Meanwhile, across the river from Annandale, Martha Tuttle ’11, Richard’s daughter, has installed a large-scale, temporary, outdoor project, A stone that thinks of Enceladus, at Storm King Art Center. The piece, part of an ongoing program to support emerging artists, consists of a series of cairns built from boulders gathered at Storm King, along with molded glass and carved marble replicas of stones that she collected. The installation will be on view through December 13.
Martha Tuttle A stone that thinks of Enceladus, 2020 Stone, glass, and marble Dimensions variable Courtesy the artist and Tilton Gallery Photo by Jeffrey Jenkins ©Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
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