Fred Wilson in group show GLASS
Until Aug 19, 2016, Pace, 537 West 24th Street, New York
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Pace Gallery presents GLASS, an exhibition of works by Maya Lin, Kiki Smith and Fred Wilson. The exhibition, which will present works made in glass and using glass found objects, is an exploration of each artist’s use of the material.
With his work Fred Wilson challenges social and historical narratives regarding values, culture and race. Showing Wilson’s interest in methods of display is his installation Love and Loss in the Milky Way (2005), previously on view in the Hammer Museum of Art’s Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology at in Los Angeles. The installation is comprised of milk glass tableware placed alongside classical-style statuary and a cookie jar depicting a racial caricature. Recent black glass drips, which evolved out of his first experimentations in glass during his residency at Pilchuck in 2001, will also be included in the exhibition. The reflective surface of the blown glass and the teardrop-like forms suggest liquids such as ink, oil and tar. Wilson expanded his use of black glass in 2003, the year he represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. Working in collaboration with Venetian glassmakers, he began producing ornate mirrors and eighteenth-century style chandeliers, using black Murano glass in a radical departure from traditional Rococo colors. The exhibition will include the artist’s black mirror I Saw Othello’s Visage In His Mind (2013) as well as the chandelier No Way But This (2013).(text Pace Gallery)
See also: https://africanah.org/fred-wilson/