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Exhibitions
Metahaven: The Sprawl
Presented by YBCA
December 17, 2015–April 3, 2016
The project explores the mutation of propaganda in the age of social media.
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Exhibitions
Kevin Cooley: Golden Prospects
Presented by YBCA
December 17, 2015–April 3, 2016
Cooley blurs the lines between the natural and the environmentally harmful.
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Exhibitions
Office Space
Presented by YBCA
November 7, 2015–February 14, 2016
The exhibition cleverly subverts contemporary office culture to explore labor practices in the 21st century post-industrial economy.
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Exhibitions
Work in Progress: Investigations South of Market
Presented by YBCA
November 7, 2015–February 16, 2016
New works on site that delve into the layered history of the South of Market neighborhood.
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Exhibitions
Earth Machines
Presented by YBCA
August 14–December 6, 2015
This exhibition considers the relentless stream of new technological products in light of their underlying material precariousness and profound ecological impact.
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Exhibitions
Won Ju Lim: Raycraft is Dead
Presented by YBCA
August 14–December 6, 2015
Lim presents a new iteration of an ongoing body of work that considers our relationships to the spaces we occupy and own.
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Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art
Presented by YBCA
June 13–October 11, 2015
The first comprehensive survey of performance art by visual artists of African descent from the United States and the Caribbean.
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Shana Moulton: Picture Puzzle Pattern Door
Presented by YBCA
April 16–August 2, 2015
A multimedia installation featuring a humorous, playful, and sometimes painful world where kitsch, mysticism, pop culture, and spirituality collide.
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Exhibitions
A Special Curatorial Project with Rirkrit Tiravanija: The Way Things Go
Presented by YBCA
February 13–June 21, 2015
This exhibition uncovers narratives, reveals personal stories, and shares vignettes that lead to a larger understanding of migration in the production of material culture.
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Exhibitions
Nate Boyce: Polyscroll
Presented by YBCA
January 23–April 5, 2015
A body of work that emphasizes the hand drawn and painterly representation, in order to forefront how our tools create the semblance of space and depth in 2D and 3D within the longer history of painting and sculpture
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Exhibitions
Lucy Raven: Hollywood Chop Riding
Presented by YBCA
November 14, 2014–January 11, 2015
Lucy Raven uncovers the complexities at play in technology.
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Exhibitions
Alien She
Presented by YBCA
October 24, 2014–January 25, 2015
A view into the passion and diversity of Riot Grrrl, a pioneering punk feminist movement that emerged in the early 1990s.
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Exhibitions
Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible?
Presented by YBCA
October 24, 2014–January 25, 2015
The exhibition considers visual, perceptual, and conceptual systems that have become increasingly unstable, both physically and metaphorically.
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Public Art
Future Cities Lab: Lightswarm
Presented by YBCA
October 24, 2014–October 31, 2016
A stunning facade installation of 430 individual modules, employing sound sensors and LED lights to produce a spectacular light show in a state of perpetual flux.
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Public Art
Future Cities Lab: Murmur Wall
Presented by YBCA
May 21, 2014–May 31, 2017
An extraordinary combination of sculpture, light installation and data collector.
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Public Art
Kota Ezawa: Boardwalk
Presented by YBCA
June 28, 2013–November 30, 2015
Kota Ezawa rebuilds in YBCA’s Sculpture Court a side view of the Seaside Heights boardwalk on the New Jersey shore, which was devastated during Hurricane Sandy.
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