Josiah McElheny
Josiah McElheny: Paintings
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
September 10 - October 24, 2015
Blue Prism Painting V, 2015
Projection Painting I, 2015
The Past Was A Mirage I'd Left Far Behind, 2011-2012
The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown, 2007
The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown, 2007
Crystalline Landscape after Hablik and Luckhardt III, 2011 - 2012
Josiah McElheny: Towards a Light Club
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
January 26 – April 7, 2013
Model for a Film Set (The Light Spa at the Bottom of a Mine), 2008
The Light Club of Vizcaya - A Woman's Picture, 2012
Bruno Taut's Monument to Socialist Spirituality (After Mies van der Rohe), 2009
Bruno Taut on Mies van der Rohe (1922), i, 2009
"Chromatic Modernism (Yellow, Red, Blue)", 2008
Charlotte Perriand (and Carlos Scarpa), Red, 2009
"Aino Aalto (and Tapio Wirkkala), Yellow", 2009
if you lived here, you'd be home by now
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
June 25 - December 18, 2011
Some thoughts about the abstract body
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
May 19 - June 30, 2012
Models for an abstract body (after McQueen), 2012
Walking Mirror 2, 2012
"From an Historical Anecdote about Fashion", 2000
The Club for Modern Fashions, 2013
Three Screens for Looking at Abstraction, 2012
Island Universe, 2008
Study for The Center Is Everywhere, 2012
Some Pictures of the Infinite, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2012
Verzelini's Acts of Faith (Glass from Paintings of the Life of Christ), 1996
Endless Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism, 2007
Twentieth Century Modernism, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely, 2006
Detail of:
Twentieth Century Modernism, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely, 2006
The Metal Party: Reconstructing a Party held in Dessau on February 9, 1929, 2001
Through sculpture, writing, performance, and film, Josiah McElheny investigates the history of twentieth-century modernism in hopes of expanding on the dominant historical narratives of art, aesthetics, design, and architecture, and the criticality of our relationship to them. Recognized for his conceptually rigorous approach, and a physical mastery of materials, such as glass, McElheny explores vastly-ranging topics from astronomical cosmology and the infinite, to under-recognized artists or oeuvres, including the visionary abstraction of Hilma af Klint, Blinky Palermo’s wall paintings, and Robert Smithson’s crystalline sculptures. His practice mines the past to lay the groundwork for a path forward, giving a glimpse into not only what could have been, but visions for what might be.
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Past
Are You Experienced?
Carsten Holler, Ben Kinmont, Josiah McElheny, Rodney Sappington and Tyler Stallings, Keith Seward and David Kelleran, and Andrea Zittel
March 11 – April 9, 1994
Main Gallery
Josiah McElheny: Paintings
Contributions by Iris Müller-Westermann and Alex Bacon
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Josiah McElheny Paintings at Andrea Rosen Gallery, September 10–October 24, 2015.
Featuring contributions by Iris Müller-Westermann, Senior Curator of International Art at the Modern Museet in Stockholm, and scholar, writer and curator, Alex Bacon.
Format: Hardcover
6.75 x 8.625 inches / 88 pages
Publisher: ARG Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-942933-27-4
September, 2015
Josiah McElheny: A Prism
Edited by Josiah McElheny and Louise Neri, Contribution by Dave Hickey and David H. Weinberg
The first major monograph on MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipient Josiah
McElheny. McElheny is a unique figure among artists of his generation: his
primary medium is glass. Over the last 15 years he has created an
extraordinary body of work exploring the relationship between art, history,
and narrative. Known for his room-size installations of glass sculptures,
the artist’s work is as rich visually as it is conceptually. With
contributions by some of the most important writers and scholars
today (including curator and writer Louise Neri, art critic Dave Hickey,
curator Helen Molesworth, and cosmologist David Weinberg) this is the most
comprehensive consideration of the artist’s work to date.Pub Date: April 20, 2010
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
Trim Size: 9 x 11 inches / 256 pgs
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3415-0
The Brooklyn Rail
Modern Painters
Josiah McElheny Press Kit
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
Press Release
October 2006
Josiah McElheny in Madison Square Park Spring 2017
November 29, 2016
Andrea Rosen Gallery is pleased to recognize Josiah McElheny's Prismatic Park, a major exhibition commissioned and organized by Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York on view from June 13 - October 8, 2017.
The outdoor exhibition will comprise three exquisite sculptures in painted wood and prismatic glass: minimal, almost architectural forms that will create new spaces within the Park for the creation of music, dance, and poetry: a curvilinear, translucent blue sound wall for experimental music; a circular, reflective green floor for vanguard dance; and a vaulted-roofed luminous red and yellow pavilion for poetry. Throughout the exhibition, three nonprofit art organizations based in New York - Blank Forms, Danspace Project, and Poets House - will "inhabit" the Park to realize new commissions. McElheny has also offered the participating artists a prompt to consider the Park not only for performances, but also for rehearsals or even impromptu workshops. When not occupied by the resident artists, the public will have access to the sculptures to view or to adopt as a framework for their own innovative use.
In recent years, various parks have been especially important as sites for political assertion, such as Gezi Park in Istanbul, Tahrir Square in Cairo, and Zuccotti Park in New York. McElheny takes impetus from the activism of recent years, but Prismatic Park reconceives this ferment as an idealistic, almost utopian concept for the shared responsibility towards a public site that still allots space for the highly individual, unique voice.
Josiah McElheny at the Columbus Museum of Art
On December 8th, join a conversation with Josiah McElheny, Professor Ron Green and curator Tyler Cann about McElheny's Three Screens for Looking at Abstraction at the Columbus Museum of Art. Tickets available here.
Columbus Museum of Art
480 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH
Josiah McElheny at the Whitney Museum of American Art
October 26, 2016
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 at the Whitney Museum of American Art includes the work of Josiah McElheny. Organized by Chrissie Iles, the exhibition will be on view from October 26, 2016 through February 5, 2017.
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street
New York, NY 10014
Josiah McElheny at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
September 13, 2016
Josiah McElheny is participating in a panel entitled "Lost Chapters of Modernism: Case Studies" at the Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with the exhibition Dadaglobe Reconstructed. More information on the event can be found here.
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019
Josiah McElheny performances at MAK, Vienna
May 11, 2016
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Josiah McElheny: The Ornament Museum, performances will be staged with the actress Susanne Sachsse in a dress reconstructed from a 1908 Emilie Louise Flöge design.
Performances
with Susanne Sachsse, Actress, Berlin
Tue, 17 May 2016, 7 p.m.
Tue, 13 Sept 2016, 7 p.m.
Tue, 18 Oct 2016, 6 p.m.
Sat, 19 Nov 2016, 5 p.m.
Tue, 24 Jan 2017, 7 p.m.
MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
Stubenring 5, 1010
Vienna, Austria
Josiah McElheny on Ellsworth Kelly at artforum.com
April 27, 2016
Josiah McElheny has written a tribute to Ellsworth Kelly on artforum.com.
Josiah McElheny at MAK - Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
April 26, 2016
Josiah McElheny's The Ornamental Museum will be on view at MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna from April 27, 2016 - February 4, 2017. The artist has designed a museum in the Museum and thus makes a direct reference to the extensive collections of the MAK.
For more information on the exhibition, please click here.
Joisah McElheny in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's The Artist Project
March 4, 2016
Josiah McElheny discusses a work by Horace Pippin for Season 5 of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's The Artist Project.
Josiah McElheny/Paul Scheerbart Film Festival
November 20 - 23, 2014
GLASS! LOVE!! PERPETUAL MOTION!!!
A FILM FESTIVAL FOR PAUL SCHEERBART (1863-1915)
November 20, 21, 22, 23
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday evenings
An homage to Paul Scheerbart, brought to you by Josiah McElheny and friends.
Josiah McElheny Speaks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
February 9, 2013
Free Lecture:
Venetian Glass by Carlo Scarpa: The Venini Company, 1932–1947
Sunday, February 9, 3:00–4:30 p.m.
Josiah McElheny at The Arts Club of Chicago
September 17 - December 14, 2013
Josiah McElheny: Two Clubs
The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E. Ontario Street,
Chicago, IL 60611
Josiah McElheny on art21
