Past Exhibitions 2005
America Starts Here:
Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler
Installation view, America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005
Installation view, America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005
Installation view, America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005
Installation view, America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005
Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Camouflaged History, 1991, Spoleto Festival U.S.A., Charleston, South Carolina
Installation view, America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005
Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Peas, Potatoes, Carrots (detail), 1994-1996, etched and painted glass jars filled with baby food, aluminum shelves, 30 ¾ x 58 ½ inches overall, courtesy of Mel Ziegler, Austin, Texas
Installation view, America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005
Installation view of Constitution on Tour, 1991, in America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005
During their decade-long collaboration (1985-1995), Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler produced some of the most profound and influential conceptual art projects of the time, ranging from important public projects and site-specific installations to drawings and mixed media sculptures. Ericson and Ziegler redefined public art in a way that was welcoming to a diverse set of communities. Rather than impose a conspicuous work of art upon a site or situation, the artists devised projects that altered sites subtly, using poetic language and their idiosyncratic wit to illuminate mainstream American contexts and highlight individual community issues.
America Starts Here, the first retrospective exhibition of Ericson and Ziegler’s career, provides a critical analysis of the artists’ still under-appreciated position in the history of twentieth-century art. The exhibition includes sculptures and installations, as well as models and video documents of site-specific works.
A comprehensive catalogue, featuring full-color reproductions of the artists’ work and essays by several prominent curators and critics, accompanies the exhibition.
Exhibition Name
America Starts Here:
Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler
Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler
Exhibition Type
Solo Exhibitions
Place
Wachenheim Gallery
Dates
Oct 1, 2005 - Dec 30, 2005
Curators
America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler is a joint-project of the MIT List Visual Art Center and the Tang Teaching Museum, and is organized by Bill Arning and Ian Berry, their respective curators, in collaboration with Mel Ziegler.
Artists
Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler
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Publisher
Tang co-published with the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge and MIT Press
Cover Type
Hardcover
Page Count
216
Year Published
2005
Past related events
Oct 26, 2005, 8 PM
