National Academy of Design Presents Sites of Impermanence
about 11 months ago (02/08/2024)
National Academy of Design Presents “Sites of Impermanence” Skip to content Willie Cole, “Five Beauties Rising” (2012), suite of five prints, intaglio and relief (courtesy the artist) The National Academy of Design’s new exhibition , Sites of Impermanence , celebrates the contributions of the 2023 Class of National Academicians: Alice Adams, Sanford Biggers, Willie Cole, Torkwase Dyson, Richard Gluckman, Carlos Jiménez, Mel Kendrick, and Sarah Oppenheimer. On view in New York City now through May 11, the show focuses on their engagements with architecture, site-specific interventions, land art, assemblage, printmaking, drawing, interactive installation, and the skillful synthesis of visual art and architecture, practices central to the founding of the National Academy of Design in 1825. This group of artists and architects share a common thread: They push against binary thinking and the dominance of dichotomies, blurring boundaries drawn between nature and human, human and machine, spirit and object, architectural systems and their constituent parts.