A round-up of the best sculpture park and garden exhibitions of the season, continued. (Part one can be viewed here.)
Chakaia Booker, “Auspicious Behavior”
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum
Hamilton, Ohio
Through May 2020; indoor exhibit on display until August 31
“‘Auspicious Behavior’ at Pyramid Hill really exists as a two-in-one art exhibit. This format highlights the broad scope of Chakaia Booker’s artistic practice. The outdoor component showcases eight, large-scale, and monumental sculptures by Booker,” says Executive Director Sean FitzGibbons. “Additionally, Pyramid Hill is thrilled to host an exhibit in our contemporary art gallery which features prints, drawings, sculptures, and one very impressively massive installation by Chakaia Booker.”
New Exhibitions
Art Omi
Ghent, New York
Ongoing
See work by Andrea Bowers, Arlene Shechet, Sarah Braman, Brian Tolle, Atelier Van Lieshout, Goshka Macuga, and others.
Lustwarande, “Delirious”
De Oude Warande Park
Tilburg, Netherlands
Through October 20, 2019
The 10th edition of the international sculpture exhibition Lustwarande, “Delirious” will showcase works in which the focus is on the skin of sculpture. The curators—Chris Driessen and David Jablonowski—have selected 25 artists, including Isabelle Andriessen, Steven Claydon, Claudia Comte, Camille Henrot, and Sarah Lucas. Most of the works have been specially created for the exhibition.
Patrick Dougherty, A Passing Fancy
Highfield Hall and Gardens
Falmouth, Massachusetts
Ongoing
Over the last 30 years, sculptor Patrick Dougherty has created hundreds of unique monumental sculptures all over the world, each made from thousands of woven branches. After a three-week installation period with community volunteers, Dougherty’s newest stick sculpture will open to the public on Sunday, June 30.
“Carlos Zamora: cART”
Laumeier Sculpture Park
St. Louis, Missouri
July 25–December 22, 2019
Cuban-born, St. Louis-based illustrator and graphic designer Carlos Zamora was commissioned to retrofit the park’s golf carts, which play a pivotal role in how Laumeier staff crisscrosses the campus, shuttling colleagues and checking on sculptures, and interacting with visitors. Zamora will create three unique artworks by enveloping the carts in printed vinyl wraps, sculptural frameworks, and ornamentation inspired by a variety of sources such as Cuban car culture, nursery rhymes, history, and politics.
Sculpture Garden Exhibition Program
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Ridgefield, Connecticut
Through March 15, 2020
The Aldrich has formally renewed its outdoor sculpture exhibition program this year. Four new works—by Radcliffe Bailey, Tony Tassett, Tom Friedman, and Nari Ward—are sited across the museum’s campus, access to which is free and open to the public.
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