Storm King Art Center / Girl Group
A group of six women gather to dance at dusk in the midst of Arlene Shechet’s Girl Group.
Choreography by Annie-B Parson in collaboration with the dancers: Cecily Campbell, Elizabeth DeMent, Natalie Green, Kashia Kancey, Brooke Ashley Rucker, and Jin Ju Song-Begin. Costumes by Arlene Shechet. Sound design by Tei Blow. Produced by Storm King Art Center and Big Dance Theater.
Arlene Shechet’s Girl Group
Arlene Shechet: Girl Group brings together the artist’s recent work in wood, steel, ceramic, paper, and bronze with six new monumental sculptures created for Storm King Art Center. Through her signature emphasis on process and improvisation, Shechet (American, b. 1951) harnesses the expressive power of geometry, line, color, and form in works displayed across Storm King’s hills, fields, and galleries. The artist maintains a spirit of constant discovery as she mines the possibilities of multiple sculptural materials, experimenting with their capacity to hold color and light while creating form and volume.
The exhibition centers on the translation of lyrical ceramic works from Shechet’s Together series, on view indoors, into robust, large-scale painted metal works outdoors. Shechet began her ceramic series during the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to convey a “strong sense of a life force that seemed to be gone during that time.” Each work is titled with a time of day or a moment in a season: a means by which to reflect upon existence amid the uncertainty of that period.
Girl Group Performance: Arlene Shechet x Annie-B Parson
A group of six women gather to dance at dusk in the midst of Arlene Shechet’s Girl Group. Dance as sculpture: sculpture as dance.
2024 Performance Dates:
July 19, July 20, September 27, September 28
