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SUMMARY:THEASTER GATES: YOUNG LORDS AND THEIR TRACES
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nTheaster Gates’s work in the areas of sculpture, social practice, collaborative performance, and archiving has made him one of the most compelling artists active today. Gates emerged in the early 2000s with a sculptural practice characterized by the use of salvaged materials and deeply researched interdisciplinary histories. The elegiac formalism of Gates’s large-scale tar paintings, experimental clay vessels, and immersive architectural installations can be linked to both personal and collective narratives of labor and spirituality. In recent years, Gates has rescued a variety of historical collections of images and objects in Chicago, creating both architectural spaces and sculptural structures for their preservation and dissemination to wider audiences. For Gates, collective forms of knowledge are built across objects, images, sounds, movements, and relationships between people.\nIn “Young Lords and Their Traces,” Gates honors the radical thinkers who have shaped his city and the United States as a whole. This presentation will comprise a selection of works including paintings, sculptures, videos, performances, and archival collections that together memorialize both heroic figures and more humble, everyday icons. Gates’s elevation of these quieter sources of knowledge, and his assertion that collecting is a form of devotion and remembrance, has made his work reverberate on both the local and international level. “Young Lords and Their Traces” demonstrates the emotional and critical depth of Gates’s consistently surprising art.\n“Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces” is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, and Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Senior Curator, with Madeline Weisburg, Curatorial Assistant.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsors\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.\nMajor support is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.\nArtist commissions are generously supported by the Neeson / Edlis Artist Commissions Fund.\nGenerous support is provided by:\nShane Akeroyd\nEd Bradley Family Foundation\nMaja Hoffmann / Luma Foundation\nThe Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund\nNeuberger Berman Private Wealth\nCaisa and Åke Skeppner\nDonald R. Wilson, Jr.\nWe gratefully acknowledge the Artistic Director’s Circle of the New Museum: Dakis Joannou, Co-Chair; Eugenio Lopez, Co-Chair; Gael Neeson, Co-Chair; Shane Akeroyd, Pietro Beccari, J. Tomilson and Janine Hill, Richard Mumby, Daniel Palacio, Holly Peterson, Elham and Tony Salamé, and Beth Swofford.\nAdditional support is provided by the Friends of Theaster Gates:\nA4 Arts Foundation\nJill and Jay Bernstein\nDr. Anita Blanchard and Martin Nesbitt\nJenny Brorsen and Richard DeMartini\nRebecca and Martin Eisenberg\nMarilyn and Larry Fields\nBarbara and Michael Gamson\nNoel E.D. Kirnon\nLiz and Eric Lefkofsky\nAmanda Precourt\nBeth Rudin DeWoody\nJune and Paul Schorr\nSpecial thanks to Gagosian and White Cube.\nEducation and community programs are supported, in part, by the American Chai Trust.\nSupport for the accompanying publication has been provided, in part, by the J. McSweeney and G. Mills Publications Fund at the New Museum.\n\n\n\n\n
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