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Works by Andrea Zittel, installation view at Museum of Arts and Design,
New York
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Listen to the podcast! Balancing environmental, social, economic, and aesthetic concerns, sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life and is reshaping the fields of architecture and product design. Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art explores the influence of this design philosophy on artists who combine a fresh aesthetic sensibility with a constructively critical approach to the production, dissemination, and display of art. The exhibition includes existing works, commissions, and previously presented work that has been “recycled,” spotlighting ways in which artists are building paths to new forms of practice. Many of the artists work collaboratively and leaven serious social aims with playful, off-the-grid spark, updating the Bauhaus notion of form following function or more recent Beuysian social sculpture. Their approaches range from the metaphorical to the pragmatic, sometimes serving as models for audience activism. The exhibition, curated by Stephanie Smith, director of collections and exhibitions and curator of contemporary art at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, is accompanied by a 160-page illustrated catalogue (with artists’ texts and interviews, as well as essays by Smith and by design historian Victor Margolin) and a podcast.
Exhibition Itinerary Smart Museum of Art, University of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Museum of Arts & Design, New York, New York University Art Museum, California State University
Long Beach, Long Beach, California Smith
College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University,
Greencastle, Indiana Museum London, London, Ontario Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut The Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon The DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan |
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