Nov 12, 2021, 6 PM – 8 PM

Opening Reception: Ways of Seeing: Three Takes on the Jack Shear Drawing Collection (Take Two)

Join us for the opening reception of the second installation of our three-part exhibition Ways of Seeing: Three Takes on the Jack Shear Drawing Collection curated by Arlene Shechet. Please note that masks and proof of vaccination are required in order to attend this event.

Ways of Seeing: Three Takes on the Jack Shear Drawing Collection is a three-part exhibition that focuses on the extraordinary drawing collection of artist, curator, and President of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Jack Shear. Continuing The Drawing Center’s tradition of exhibiting drawings from outstanding public and private collections, Ways of Seeing offers a revealing experiment in connoisseurship and exhibition-making. During the course of the exhibition’s fifteen-week run, artist Arlene Shechet, critic and curator Jarrett Earnest, and Shear himself will each present an installation curated from Shear’s holdings, which consist of nearly seven hundred drawings dating from the sixteenth century to the present.

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.