Courtesy of
PLAXALL
LONG ISLAND CITY
JULY 2018
MOMA PSI The Sculpture Center
Very little great art evolves without the
challenges and support generated from a strong
local ecosystem of fellow artists, educators, and
art spaces. Clearly such an ecosystem is in place
within the region served by the Sculpture
Center. It has been a pleasure to have the
opportunity to spend time looking at and
thinking about the work of all of the artists who
submitted for the 2018 After the Pedestal
exhibition, and to work with Ann Albano who
beautifully oversaw the installation of the show
based on my selections for the nal exhibition.
44-19 Purves Street · LIC
718.361.1750 • www.sculpture-center.org
The GIF has become the subject of an unlikely series
of reinventions since its introduction in 1987 as a
data format. Today the GIF is an important site of
cultural and artistic expression, an established and
pervasive moving image form dened in part by
silence, brevity, shareability, and most importantly,
the loop. The GIF Elevator features newly commis-sioned
GIFs by six artists, animators, and illustrators
who represent some of the most important and
inuential GIF makers working today.
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Julia Phillips: Failure Detection
Through September 3
MoMA PS1 presents the rst solo museum exhibition of New
York-based artist Julia Phillips (German and American, b. 1985),
featuring six newly commissioned major works alongside
existing sculptures. Primarily working with ceramics, New
York-based Phillips creates objects and scenes that are intimately
connected to the body. Her sculptures often propose various
support structures for the human form, while emphasizing its
absence. Impressions of the body are visible through casts of
limbs, orices, handprints, and other corporeal traces.
Museum of the Moving Image
INSTALLATION
The GIF Elevator
Ongoing
After the Pedestal
11th exhibition of small sculpture
Through August 17
35 Ave at 37 St • Astoria
718.777.6800 • www.movingimage.us
22-25 Jackson Ave • LIC
718.784.2084 • MoMAPS1.org
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