Exhibition open by appointment only.
Daniel Arsham brings his multi-disciplinary practice to The Watermill Center directly intervening into the architecture of the building. Opening on April 4 and continuing through early June, Arsham will create a site-specific sculpture similar to his draped, hollow figures. Blending architecture with the visual arts, Arsham transforms surface and space into a visceral interaction between the viewer and the work.
About Daniel Arsham
New York based artist Daniel Arsham straddles the line between art, architecture and performance. Raised in Miami, Arsham attended the Cooper Union in New York City where he received the Gelman Trust Fellowship Award in 2003. Architecture is a prevalent subject throughout his work; environments with eroded walls and stairs going nowhere, landscapes where nature overrides structures, and a general sense of playfulness within existing architecture. Arsham makes architecture do things it is not supposed to do, mining everyday experience for opportunities to confuse and confound our expectations of space and form. Simple yet paradoxical gestures dominate his sculptural work: a façade that appears to billow in the wind, a figure wrapped up in the surface of a wall, a contemporary object cast in volcanic ash as if it was found on some future archeological site.
Arsham is represented by Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris, Hong Kong and New York, OHWOW in Los Angeles, Baro Galeria in Sao Paulo and Pippy Houldsworth in London.
Formless Figure was curated by Noah Khoshbin and Daneyal Mahmood.
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