Thunderstruck
New York Arts Residency and Studios Foundation (NARS)
Jul. 12, 2024 - Jul. 31, 2019
https://www.narsfoundation.org/2019_exhibitions/thunderstruck
THUNDERSTRUCK | July 12 – 31, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, July 12th 6-8 pm
Curated by Jessi DiTillio, With works by Rosana Aviña-Beam, Robert Collier Beam, Katherine Spinella, Michael E. Stephen
and John Whitten
Forty one years after its completion, six friends travelled together to see Walter De Maria’s 1977 artwork The Lightning Field in Western New Mexico. Thunderstruck is the aftermath of that trip, a group of art works and collective feelings. Questions of material, history, indigenous heritage, and embodiment suffuse these works in print, drawing, sound, sculpture, and installation. Thunderstruck re-presents The Lightning Field as an accumulation of meaning unfixed by time, floating free from De Maria’s authorial intention.
