Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching
September 9, 2021 - January 9, 2022
Swiss Institute (SI), NYC
Ways of Attaching is the first institutional survey exhibition of American artist Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014). The exhibition provides an overview of the artist’s work, moving from early conceptual experiments of the late 1960s through to textile sculptures and drawings made in the early 1970s, before focusing on propositional and durational performances and temporary monuments made from 1977-1982. Highlighting Mayer’s formal interest in draping, knotting and tethering, the exhibition focuses on the artist’s process of constructing real and imagined networks and constellations, in which friends and historical figures feature in expressions of affinity and attachment. For more information about this exhibition please visit SI's website here.
Reviews:
Francesca Wade, “At the Swiss Institute Rosemary Mayer,” London Review of Books, January 6, 2022.
Samantha Friedman, “Seventeen Ways Art Inspired Us This Year,” MoMA Magazine, December 28, 2021.
Johanna Fateman, “Johanna Fateman’s highlights of 2021,” Top Ten, Artforum, December 2021.
Nicole Rudick, “Rosemary Mayer's Tethered Histories,” The New York Review of Books, December 9, 2021
Ian Wallace, “Rosemary Mayer,” Artforum Critics’ Picks, Artforum, November 2021.
Candice Chu, “Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching,” ArtSeen, The Brooklyn Rail, November 2021.
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Event:
SCULPTURE AND GATHERING | MOON TENT CELEBRATION WITH OLGA BALEMA AND EI ARAKAWA & SARAH CHOW
6-8 PM Wed. Oct. 20, 2021
Moon Tent Celebration on the occasion of Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching, and the October full moon.