Open Call: Group 2

JUN 19 – AUG 25, 2019
Installation view: Open Call: Group 2, The Shed, New York, June 19 – August 25, 2019. Photo: Lily Wan.
An installation view of the Open Call Group 2 artists' group exhibition
Installation view: Open Call: Group 2, The Shed, New York, June 19 – August 25, 2019. Photo: Stan Narten.
An installation view of the Open Call Group 2 artists' group exhibition
Installation view: Open Call: Group 2, The Shed, New York, June 19 – August 25, 2019. Photo: Stan Narten.
An installation view of the Open Call Group 2 artists' group exhibition
Installation view: Open Call: Group 2, The Shed, New York, June 19 – August 25, 2019. Photo: Stan Narten.
An installation view of the Open Call Group 2 artists' group exhibition
Installation view: Open Call: Group 2, The Shed, New York, June 19 – August 25, 2019. Photo: Lily Wan.

About this commission

The artists in Open Call: Group 2 present their work in a group exhibition.

Location and dates

This event takes place in Level 2 Gallery.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday: 11 am – 6 pm
Thursday – Saturday: 11 am – 8 pm

The exhibition will close at 6 pm on July 4.

Events

Open Call: Analisa Teachworth

A multimedia installation referencing adaptive forms of architecture and lamenting the inevitable collapse of global markets

Open Call: Asif Mian

A mixed-media installation simulating the surveillance of a closed sportswear store

Open Call: Avram Finkelstein

A jacquard woven tapestry that enlarges a section of an iPhone photo of a 1971 portrait of a close, gender nonconforming friend of the artist

Open Call: Caitlin Blanchfield and Farzin Lotfi-Jam

An investigation of the United Nations Headquarters building through archival documents and X-rays

Open Call: Christopher Udemezue

Mixed-media sculptural photographs delving into the search for “yard” (a Jamaican word for home)

Open Call: daaPo reo

A mixed-media textile installation juxtaposing West African masquerade traditions and the origins of the Ku Klux Klan’s regalia

Open Call: Farideh Sakhaeifar

A site-specific multimedia installation about the aftermath of a 1988 chemical attack on Halabja’s residents

Open Call: Haley Elizabeth Anderson

A film and photography installation weaving images and sound gathered from the pre-production of two feature films

Open Call: Hugh Hayden

A sculptural installation and personal meditation on home ownership as a rite of passage within the American Dream

Open Call: Julia Weist

A collection of photographs presenting artwork used to heighten the immersive reality of simulation spaces such as television sets, training facilities, and historical reenactment sites

Open Call: Kim Brandt

A series of performances and drawings exploring our understanding of difference

Open Call: Kiyan Williams

A site-specific wall work using soil to paint a portrait of America and the exploitation of Black bodies and land

Open Call: Maia Chao

A video investigating sisterhood and contradictions of race, gender, sexuality, and performativity

Open Call: Maryam Hoseini and Phoebe d’Heurle

A curatorial project conceptually framing the work of Suzanne Valadon, one of the most famous female painters of 19th-century France

Open Call: Moko Fukuyama

An installation exploring the moral ambiguities of harvesting fish and the crossover between natural world and urban society

Open Call: Onyedika Chuke

A three-headed snake fountain exploring collective consciousness

Open Call: Saint Abdullah

A poetry slot machine with poems from Persian poet Hafiz

Open Call: Sam Lavigne

An interactive installation exploring how machines see human bodies

Open Call: Tahir Carl Karmali

A suspended sculpture installation in the form of a lotus flower made from the same industrial material used to build suicide netting outside cell phone factories in Shenzhen, China

Open Call: Troy Michie

Paper-weaving collages and sculptural suit jackets inspired by the history of the zoot suit

Open Call: WangShui

A translucent video sculpture exploring the haptics of legibility and distance

Open Call: Gabriela Corretjer-Contreras

An installation of wearable clothing set in the home of Nena, the artist’s alter ego

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The creation of new work at The Shed is generously supported by the Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Commissioning Fund and the Shed Commissioners. Major support for live productions at The Shed is provided by the Charina Endowment Fund. Support for exhibitions is provided by the Robert Lehman Foundation.
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