Nov 17, 2021, 6 PM – 7:30 PM

Curatorial Walkthrough: Arlene Shechet on Ways of Seeing: Three Takes on the Jack Shear Drawing Collection

Giorgio Morandi, *Natura Morta,* 1959. Watercolor on paper, 9 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. Jack Shear Collection. © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome

Join us for an in-person walkthrough of the second iteration of Ways of Seeing: Three Takes on the Jack Shear Drawing Collection, led by curator and artist Arlene Shechet. Shechet will discuss the imaginative and personal approach she took to installing drawings selected from the expansive collection of artist, curator, and President of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, Jack Shear.

Shechet's selection of drawings highlights connectivity and intimacy, and includes a diverse group of figures including Lee Bontecou, Edward Burne-Jones, Salvador Dalí, Elaine de Kooning, Robert Gober, Marsden Hartley, Lee Lozano, Agnes Martin, Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Murray, Jim Nutt, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, Al Taylor, and Joseph Yoakum, among many others.

Ways of Seeing, Take Two: Arlene Shechet will be on view from November 13 through December 23.

Arlene Shechet

Arlene Shechet is a multidisciplinary sculptor living and working in New York City and the Hudson Valley. A critically-acclaimed twenty-year survey of the artist’s work, All At Once, was on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston in 2015. Shechet has designed and curated exhibitions including Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection, on view at The Frick Collection, New York (2016–17), and From Here on Now at The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (2016–17). Her ambitious large-scale public project Full Steam Ahead featured monumental porcelain and mixed media sculptures installed in Madison Square Park, New York (2018–19). Shechet’s first solo show at Pace Gallery, Skirts, opened in New York in February 2020. The monograph Arlene Shechet: Skirts (Pace Publishing, 2020) includes an essay by scholar Rachel Silveri and interviews with the artist by Deborah Solomon and Michaëla Mohrmann. Shechet currently has work on view in New York at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Jewish Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design. Upcoming projects include exhibitions in Hong Kong and Los Angeles, as well as a historical and contemporary installation that Shechet has designed for the Harvard Art Museums and a permanent sculpture commission for the Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego.