NEW YORK, NY (PNAN) – Expanding over three floors of the New Museum, “Young Lords and Their Traces” exhibition is dedicated to Theaster Gates (b. 1973, Chicago, IL) in his first major museum survey in the United States.
The exhibit is comprised of a selection of works including paintings, sculptures, videos, performances and archival collections that together memorialize both heroic figures and more humble, everyday icons. Large-scale tar paintings, experimental clay vessels and immersive architectural installations by Gates can be linked to both personal and collective narratives of labor and spirituality are built across objects, images, sounds, movements and relationships between people.
Gates honors the radical thinkers who have shaped his city and the United States as a whole. His elevation of these quieter sources of knowledge and his assertion that collecting is a form of devotion and remembrance, has made him one of the most compelling artists active today.
Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director and Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Senior Curator with Madeline Weisburg, Curatorial Assistant, more on this exhibition at www.newmuseum.org or on the artist at www.theastergates.com.