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Sculpture in the Garden 2024
Previous Exhibits at Landcraft Garden Foundation
2024 Artist: Jorge Pardo
On View Fridays & Saturdays, June 8, 2024 – October 26,2024
Landcraft Garden Foundation is excited to welcome Jorge Pardo as the 2024 Sculpture in the Garden artist! Read more about his work below.
ABOUT SCULPTURE IN THE GARDEN
A hidden gem on the North Fork of Long Island, The Garden at Landcraft Garden Foundation offers four acres of botanical wonder surrounded by nearly ten acres of natural land, open to the public, Fridays and Saturdays between 10 am – 4 pm. The Foundation seeks to activate the artistic community of the North Fork with annual exhibitions that provide opportunities to view sculpture in dialogue with nature – cultivated and uncultivated. The inaugural Sculpture in the Garden series launched in summer 2021 with the work of artist Ned Smyth, curated by Rondinone.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jorge Pardo was born in Havana, Cuba in 1963 and studied at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Pardo’s artwork explores the intersection of contemporary painting, design, sculpture, and architecture. Employing a broad palette of vibrant colors, eclectic patterns, and natural and industrial materials, Pardo’s works range from murals to home furnishings to collages to larger-than-life fabrications. He often transforms familiar objects into artworks with multiple meanings and purposes, such as a set of lamps displayed as both sources of illumination and as freestanding sculptures, or a sailboat exhibited as both a utilitarian, seaworthy vessel and as a striking obelisk. Working on small and monumental scales, Pardo also treats entire public spaces as vast canvases. Pardo engages viewers with works that produce great visual delight while questioning distinctions between fine art and design.
His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions including the Savannah College of Art and Design, GA (2023); Pinacoteca de Estado São Paulo, São Paulo (2019); Hacienda la Rojeña, Tequila, MX (2019); Victoria Miro, London (2018); Petzel, New York (2017); José García, Mérida, MX (2016); David Gill Gallery, London (2015); Musée des Augustins, Toulouse (2014); neugerriemschneider, Berlin (2014); Gagosian Gallery, New York (2010); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2010); K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2009); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2008); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2007).
His work is part of numerous public collections including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Jorge Pardo has been the recipient of many awards including the MacArthur Fellowship Award (2010); the Smithsonian American Art Museum Lucelia Artist Award (2001); and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1995).
Jorge Pardo currently lives and works in Merida, Mexico and on the North Fork.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Ugo Rondinone’s (b. 1964, Brunnen, Switzerland) exhibition Burn To Shine is currently being exhibited at Museum San in Wonjuu, Korea (April 6 – September 18, 2024). With over forty works of sculpture, painting, installation, and film featured in the museum’s three main galleries, as well as the Nam June Paik Hall and the outdoor stone garden, BURN TO SHINE offers the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s oeuvre in Korea to date.
Exhibitions of his work have been seen at Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York; Medellín Museum of Modern Art, Colombia; Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland; Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico; Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark; Tate Liverpool, UK; Bass Museum of Art, Miami; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.
In 2016, Rondinone’s large-scale public work Seven Magic Mountains opened outside Las Vegas, co-produced by the Art Production Fund and Nevada Museum of Art. In 2017, Rondinone curated a city-wide exhibition, “Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno,” which was presented in twelve New York non-profit institutions: Artists Space, High Line Art, Howl! Happening, Hunter College Art Galleries, the Kitchen, New Museum, Red Bull Arts New York, Rubin Museum of Art, SkyArt, Swiss Institute, White Columns and 80WSE Gallery. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include: Esther Schipper, Berlin; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome; SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand; Sadie Coles HQ, London; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Belvedere 21, Vienna; Galerie Krobath, Vienna; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Rondinone lives and works in New York City and Mattituck.
Sculpture in the Garden is made possible by Jorge Pardo, Landcraft Environments, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Contact us today if you are interested in contributing to Sculpture in the Garden 2024.
Poetry in the Garden 2024
2024 Poets: Jill Bialosky, Kimiko Hahn and Anne Marie Macari
On View Fridays & Saturdays, July 19, 2024 – October 26,2024
The spoken word is one of the earliest forms of human art. Alone, without theatrics, it can be so many things. Sometimes it is direct, powerful, punctuated; sometimes it is veiled, coy, or sublime. It can uplift, refresh and invigorate; or it can humble, crush and condemn. When crafted by a poet, the nuances of language and its delivery can expose truths hard to express otherwise that are fundamental to the human experience. Join us and feel the power of nature and poetry while celebrating the gift of three guest poets, each reciting poems in the Garden at Landcraft Saturday, July 20, 2024. Buy tickets here for this one time event.
Print poems from each of the poets will be hung in the Garden’s Rondels for a season-long meditative experience of language in a symbolic setting viewable Fridays and Saturdays from July 19th to October 16.
Jill Bialosky‘s newest volume of poetry, Asylum: A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry, three critically acclaimed novels, including The Prize and most recently The Deceptions, and a two memoirs, Poetry Will Save Your Life and New York Times bestselling memoir History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life. Her poems and essays have appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, O Magazine, The Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry. She is an Executive Editor and Vice President at W. W. Norton & Company. In 2014 she was honored by the Poetry Society of America for her distinguished contribution to poetry.
Kimiko Hahn is the author of eleven collections, including the forthcoming The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems. Her most recent honor is the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement from The Poetry Foundation. In 2022 Hahn was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Hahn is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College, The City University of New York. In her service to the field, she enjoys promoting chapbooks and created a chapbook archive in the college library.
Anne Marie Macari is the author of five books of poems, most recently Red Deer (Persea, 2015) and Heaven Beneath (Persea, 2020). Her book Ivory Cradle was chosen by Robert Creeley for the APR/Honickman first book prize and she is the recipient of other honors including the James Dickey Prize from Five Points Magazine. Macari founded and directed the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. Her essays and poems have appeared widely in magazines, including The American Poetry Review and The Iowa Review.
This experience is made possible by generous contributions from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and Meadowlark North Fork.