Steel, wood, concrete, and acrylic
in three parts: a. 17 × 4 × 12 ft.; b. 14.8 ft. × 10 in. × 7.5 ft.; c. 12.5 × 9 × 26 ft.
Courtesy of the artist and David Castillo, Miami; Originally commissioned by Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, with support from the Ford Foundation
Photo: Ryan Gamma
Photo: Ryan Gamma
Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York,
peter campus, dune tree (video still), 2021 Videograph, 8:00 minutes (looped)
Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
Exodus
2019
Vintage saris from India, Sharjah and artist’s Indo-Guyanese family and rope net
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.29
2020-2021
Assemblage
121 x 91 x 42 in.
Collection of David Cancel
Photo: Abby Leigh
Wood, stucco, latex paint, and banana plants
Courtesy of the artist
Cove
2010
Oil on linen
60 x 81 in.
Adrienne and Chris Birchby Collection
Image courtesy of the artist and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles/Seoul
Photo: Ryan Gamma
Photo: Ryan Gamma
Photo: Ryan Gamma
Aluminum, creosote, yucca, and cedar bark, 50 x 42 x 20 in.
Courtesy of the artists
Photo Credit: ArandaLasch
Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College -November 8, 2020 - May 2, 2021 (installation view)
Courtesy of the artist.
Photo: Ryan Gamma
Photo: Matthew Holler
Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York
Photo: Jeffrey Sturges
© Harmony Hammond / VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Exhibition Archive
Richard Benson: The World Is Smarter Than You Are
February 5 – May 7, 2023
This exhibition surveys nearly fifty years of Benson’s photography, a wide-ranging body of work that reflects his humility and boundless curiosity about the world and his tireless exploration of how to make photographs. A selection of artworks by ten artists who studied and worked with Benson will also be included in this exhibition.
by Richard Benson (American, 1943–2017)
Multiple impression pigment print, image: 11 9/16 × 17 3/8 inches.; sheet: 12 15/16 × 19 inches.
© Estate of Richard M. A. Benson. Collection of Barbara Benson. Image courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2021.
Xaviera Simmons
May 2021- April 17, 2023
Steel, wood, concrete, and acrylic
in three parts: a. 17 × 4 × 12 ft.; b. 14.8 ft. × 10 in. × 7.5 ft.; c. 12.5 × 9 × 26 ft.
Courtesy of the artist and David Castillo, Miami; Originally commissioned by Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, with support from the Ford Foundation
Photo: Ryan Gamma
Steven and William Ladd
September 4 – February 5, 2023
Shaboygen
2012
Board, plywood, metal, fiber, beads, paper, tulle, Angora bunny hair, and pins
40 ½ x 60 ¾ x 15 ½ in. (each)
Courtesy of the artists
Journeys to Places Known and Unknown: Moving Images by Janet Biggs and peter campus
October 16 – January 15, 2023
barrier
videograph, 6:26 minutes, looped, edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof, installation view of when the hurly burly's doneat Parrish Art Museum (Water Mill, NY)
Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
In the Cold Edge(video still)
2010
Single channel HD video with sound.
Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney, New York
Katrina Coombs
I M(O)ther
Threads of the Maternal Figure
May 22 – October 2, 2022
Oshun’s Glory (detail)
2020
Finger-knitted mixed fibers
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
Photo: Katrina Coombs
State of the Art 2020: Constructs
April 24 – September 11, 2022
State of The Art 2020: Constructs is organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.
The national tour of State of the Art 2020 is sponsored by Bank of America with additional support from Art Bridges.
Daniel Lind-Ramos: Las Tres Marías
April 2 – August 7, 2022
Daniel Lind-Ramos (b. 1953, Puerto Rico) creates assemblages from found and reclaimed objects, many of which the artist collected from the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. This exhibition will include two new assemblage works created specifically for the Museum, Baño de María and María Guabancex, in addition to María de los Sustentos.
María de los Sustentos
2020-2021
Assemblage
121 x 91 x 42 in.
Collection of David Cancel
Photo: Abby Leigh
JPW3
Zen Jail
December 14, 2019 – July 19, 2022
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
Zen Jail is an open-ended work in progress, adapting to its new home in Sarasota, after time in a park in Miami. The artist, JPW3 (b. 1981, Tallahassee, FL), sourced a piece of wood from a tree that grew in Sarasota and has turned it into a scope for the viewer/participant to meditate—or spy—on passers-by from the sunken bench seat. A tea plant is growing, that will be harvested and brewed in a series of interactive performative events that will riff on tea ceremonies around the world. Passion flower (passiflora) vines grow onto the framework of Zen Jail, providing a micro-ecosystem for butterflies (especially the endangered Monarch Danaus plexippus) and other pollinators to assist in habitat restoration. Zen Jail will evolve and grow as the site responds to the community’s engagement. It may be a meditation site, a site for music and performance, a site for reflection, a playspace—how would you like to play with Zen Jail?
Courtesy of the artist
Carl Abbott
La Musa Azul
2019 – July 17, 2022
As one enters the Plaza, the eye is drawn toward two “Abbott Blue” walls converging in a portal. These diagonal gestures define the entrance to the site-responsive, interactive installation, La Musa Azul, featuring one of the signature blue hues that has defined Carl Abbott’s (b. 1944) creative practice since his youth, where he was captivated by the wild irises and petunias of his Georgia childhood. The sculpture defines Abbott’s intersecting attributes as both a colorist and a landscape designer, and employs his signature diagonal gesture, used as a device to lead both body and vision. Visitors are invited to wander the grove, sit in quiet contemplation or simply marvel at the musa trees (Latin name for the banana genus), and enjoy the shared etymology of “muse”, origin of the word museum—a muse in the grove. Trees have long provided our “first architecture”—providing shelter—and sacred groves throughout time and across cultures have provided a respite from the bustle of our “profane”, workaday lives—much needed during this current time.
Wood, stucco, latex paint, and banana plants
Courtesy of the artist
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
November 27, 2021 – May 15, 2022
Photo: Ryan Gamma
Danner Washburn
Effigy: Hemric
December 8, 2021– 8 May 2022
Porcelain figurine, NC 95 tobacco seed, collards seed, summer squash seed, sweet corn seed, neutral pH adhesive
3 x 1 ¼ x 2 in.
Courtesy of the artist
Judith Linhares: The Artist as Curator
Judith Linhares: The Artist as Curator illuminates the wondrous world of Judith Linhares (b. 1940, California) and the abundance of influences that shape her artistic practice—from her time in the California Bay Area in the 1960s and 70s, to her studio space, to her dream journals, to other artists, five of whom Linhares has selected to include in the exhibition.
Oil on linen
60 x 81 in.
Adrienne and Chris Birchby Collection
Image courtesy of the artist and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles/Seoul
David Budd: Motion Within Stillness
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 in.
Collection of Ringling College of Art and Design
Photo: Rich Schineller
Samo Davis: Happiness in ROYGBIV
May 29, 2021 – March 6, 2022
Happiness in ROYGBIV is a vibrant sculptural installation that features a colorful and effervescent tree composed of found objects from the artist’s home, intending to spark joy within the difficult times of the last year.
Plastic, pom poms, resin, yarn, clay, recycled materials.
Courtesy of the artist.
Photo: Sarasota Art Museum
Charles McGill: In the Rough
29 May – 31 October
Charles McGill: In the Rough explores the assemblage works of artist, educator, and golf teaching professional Charles McGill, who physically deconstructed and repurposed the plastic, steel, leather, vinyl, and hardware from vintage golf bags to examine the racial and class inequities associated with the sport and leisure activity.
Reconfigured golf bag parts on panel, 72 x 72 x 6 in.
Courtesy of the Estate of Charles McGill
Photo: Jenny Gorman
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
29 May – 31 October
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is the first comprehensive retrospective of one of the United States’ most compelling and provocative artists who—through vibrant paintings laced with biting satire—confronted issues of race, gender, identity, and the uncomfortable realities of American life in the latter half of the 20th century.
Photo: Ryan Gamma
Unraveling: Aranda\Lasch & Terrol Dew Johnson
12 June – 26 September
Aluminum, creosote, yucca, and cedar bark, 68 x 66 x 40 in.
Courtesy of the artists
Photo Credit: ArandaLasch
Casein and watercolor pencil on canvas, 118 x 234 in.
Podesta Collection, Washington D.C.
Photo: Teresa Lojacono
Janaina Tschäpe
Between the Sky and the Water
13 December – 2 May 2021
Photo: Steven Brooke Studios
Photo: Matthew Holler
Carrie Mae Weems
RESIST COVID/TAKE 6!
Sarasota Art Museum launched its participation in Carrie Mae Weems’ public awareness campaign RESIST COVID/TAKE 6! in July of 2020. The project delivers Weems’ characteristic dual force of powerful, yet sobering image-text unions – here, concerned with COVID-19 and the disproportionate effects on Black, Latinx, and Native communities as a result of healthcare inequities.
Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York
Photo: Eric Swanson
© Harmony Hammond / VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Harmony Hammond
Material Witness, Five Decades of Art
15 October - 15 November 2020
Photo: Sarasota Art Museum
Color. Theory. & (b/w)
14 December 2019 - 25 October 2020
Celadon Landscape
14 December 2019 - 13 March 2020
Celadon Landscape is constructed from ceramic discards collected from numerous kilns in Korea. These shards are the result of potters destroying finished ceramic vessels with any minor imperfections. Shin views the celadon fragments as a metaphor of the Korean diaspora, vibrant artifacts of the Korean people, their history and culture that are scattered all over the world to form new identities elsewhere. The term celadon also refers to the soft, pale grey-green color achieved by coating the clay with an iron-rich glaze that oxidizes during the heating process.
Vik Muniz
14 December 2019 - 8 March 2020
Vik Muniz is distinguished as one of the most innovative and creative artists of our time. Endlessly playful and inventive in his approach, Muniz harnesses a remarkable virtuosity in creating his renowned “photographic delusions”. Working with a dizzying array of unconventional materials including sugar, tomato sauce, diamonds, magazine clippings, chocolate syrup, dust, and junk Muniz painstakingly builds tableaux before recording them with his camera. From a distance the subject of each resulting photograph is discernible; up close, the work reveals a complex and surprising matrix through which it is assembled. That revelatory moment when one thing transforms into another is of deep interest to the artist.