Please join multidisciplinary artist Arlene Shechet in conversation with Associate Professor Mary Hallam Pearse as they discuss Shechet's work and it's juicy formation. There will be a 20 minute Q&A where participants will be encouraged to ask Arlene anything!

Arlene Shechet is a multidisciplinary sculptor living and working in New York City and the Hudson Valley. A major, critically acclaimed 20-year survey of the artist's work, All At Once, which the New York Times called “some of the most imaginative American sculpture of the past 20 years, and some of the most radically personal” (Cotter), was on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2015 with an accompanying monograph. Shechet’s work also includes historical museum installations; Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection was on view at The Frick Collection, New York (2016–17), and From Here On Now at The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2016–17). Her ambitious large-scale public project Full Steam Ahead featured monumental porcelain and mixed media sculptures installed at Madison Square Park, New York (2018–19). Shechet’s first solo show for Pace Gallery, Skirts,
opened in New York in February 2020, and was followed by a second solo show, Together, on view at Pace East Hampton through August 2020. Shechet was featured in the PBS series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century (season 7, 2014) as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s The Artist Project (season 4, 2016). She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2016 CAA Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work, a John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award (2004), and the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2010). Shechet’s work is included in many distinguished international public and private collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Jewish Museum, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; and the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY.

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