The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

SculptureCenter

Location
Long Island City, NY
Grant Cycle
Fall 2023
Amount
$80,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support
Website
www.sculpture-center.org ↗
Installation view, In Practice: Isabel Mallet, SculptureCenter, New York, 2023. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Charles Benton
Henrike Naumann: Re-Education, installation view, SculptureCenter, New York, 2022. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Charles Benton
Édgar Calel, B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone), 2023, installation view, Édgar Calel: B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone), SculptureCenter, New York, 2023. Soil, rocks, audio, carved wood, hoes, candles, and offerings. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City. Commissioned by SculptureCenter, New York and Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam. Photo: Charles Benton
Lydia Ourahmane, Tassili, 2022, installation view, Lydia Ourahmane: Tassili, SculptureCenter, New York, 2022. 4K video, 16mm transferred to video, digital animation, sound. 46:12 minutes. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Charles Benton
Installation view, Julian Abraham “Togar”: Too good to be OK, SculptureCenter, New York, 2023. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Charles Benton

SculptureCenter leads the conversation on contemporary art by supporting artistic innovation and independent thought highlighting sculpture’s specific potential to change the way we engage with the world. Positioning artists’ work in larger cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts, SculptureCenter discerns and interprets emerging ideas. Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter provides an international forum that connects artists and audiences by presenting exhibitions, commissioning new work, and generating scholarship.

SculptureCenter’s programs explore and reflect the current concerns of and around contemporary sculpture. Taking the history and legacy of sculpture as our foundation, we consider the ways that artists are thinking about three-dimensional work. In supporting new ideas and artistic research, SculptureCenter identifies the most compelling practices and experiments that relate to the history of sculpture.

“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”

Pradeep Dalal, Program Director,  The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant