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THE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN
invites you to the Member Opening Reception for:

surface/depth THE DECORATIVE AFTER MIRIAM SCHAPIRO (http://madmuseum.org/exhibition/surfacedepth)
la frontera ENCOUNTERS ALONG THE BORDER (http://madmuseum.org/exhibition/la-frontera)
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
6–8:30 pm

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Museum of Arts and Design
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About the Exhibitions:

Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro (http://madmuseum.org/exhibition/surfacedepth)
Opens March 22, 2018

In examining the aesthetic and political objectives of Schapiro’s femmages, this exhibition highlights the pivotal role her work and leadership played in the expansion of the art world to include historically marginalized forms of craft, decoration, and abstract patterning associated with femininity and women’s work. The influence of Schapiro’s subjective approach to forms of decoration can be identified today in a remarkably diverse group of artists who continue to find inspiration in her embrace of artistic practices outside the art historical canon. To highlight this legacy, works by a select group of contemporary artists, including Sanford Biggers, Josh Blackwell, Edie Fake, Jeffrey Gibson, Judy Ledgerwood, Jodie Mack, Sara Rahbar, Ruth Root, and Jasmin Sian, will be exhibited alongside Schapiro’s signature femmages.

Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro is curated by Elissa Auther, MAD’s Windgate Research and Collections Curator with the support of Assistant Manager of Curatorial Affairs, Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy.

Leading support for Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro is provided by Michele and Marty Cohen. Additional support is generously provided by The Coby Foundation, Ltd., The Feminist Institute, Eric Firestone Gallery and The Estate of Miriam Schapiro, and Sharon Karmazin. Laura and Lewis Kruger, and Anthony Meier Fine Art.

Research for this exhibition was supported by a Craft Research Fund grant from the Center for Craft.

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La Frontera: Encounters Along the Border (http://madmuseum.org/exhibition/la-frontera)
Opens March 1, 2018

The US–Mexico border is the world’s most frequently crossed international boundary in the world. La Frontera: Encounters Along the Border seeks to explore this space and what it represents. 47 Jewelry artists from Mexico, the United States, Latin America, and Europe expose the underlying currents of the border environment within geographic, political, economic, social, cultural, and ideological contexts. The artists transform metal, fiber, wood, and other materials into representations of their experiences, their influences, their dreams, and their nightmares.

La Frontera: Encounters Along the Border is co-curated by Mike Holmes and Lorena Lazard with the assistance of MAD’s Assistant Curator, Barbara Paris Gifford, and Assistant Manager of Curatorial Affairs, Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy.

Major funding for La Frontera: Encounters Along the Border is provided by Barbara Waldman. Additional support is generously provided by Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla and the Rotasa Fund.

This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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Image Left: Miriam Schapiro, Beauty of Summer, 1973–74, acrylic and fabric on canvas, 50 x 70”
© 2017 Estate of Miriam Schapiro / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Eric Firestone Gallery.

Image Right: Kevin Hughes, untitled (necklace), 2013, plastic from water jug, duct tape, silver, 4 × 6 × 1 3/4”
Photo by the artist and courtesy of Velvet da Vinci

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