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.

Domenick Ammirati, “Under the Skin of Newness: Domenick Ammirati on the New Museum’s 2021 Triennial, Greater New York 2021 at MoMA PS1, and Rosemary Mayer at Swiss Institute,” Artforum, January 2022.

Chris Murtha, “Forms of Memories: Rosemary Mayer at Swiss Institute,” Art in America, December 31, 2021.

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.

Paige K. Bradley, “Rosemary Mayer’s Fabric Sculptures Hover Between Form and Formlessness,” Frieze, September 2021.

Related Event:  

SCULPTURE AND GATHERING | MOON TENT CELEBRATION WITH OLGA BALEMA AND EI ARAKAWA & SARAH CHOW

6-8 PM Wed. Oct. 20, 2021

On the occasion of Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching, on the evening of the October full moon, SI hosted Moon Tent Celebration. To learn more about this event, view SI's website here.