Amon Carter Museum of American Art Announces
2023 Exhibition Schedule
Foregrounding artists across genres and generations, the schedule features
historic works by Richard Avedon and Louise Nevelson and
debuts new projects by contemporary artists including
Leonardo Drew and James Prosek
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) announces its 2023 exhibition schedule, showcasing innovative scholarship, expansive offerings from the Carter’s collection, including its strong photographic holdings, and new works and commissions by contemporary artists. Major solo and group presentations include an exhibition of seven installations that visualize the legacy of the Civil War in 2023 and beyond in response to the Carter’s The Freedman sculpture, a presentation of over 50 pivotal midcentury works by Louise Nevelson, and selected works from Richard Avedon’s acclaimed In the American West series in recognition of the artist’s 100th birthday.
Continuing the Museum’s commitment to living artists working today, the Carter is presenting the nationally touring survey of Los Angeles-based photographer Christina Fernandez and premiering new work inspired by the Texas prairies by conceptual artist James Prosek. Brooklyn-based artist Leonardo Drew will be the fourth artist commissioned to transform the Carter’s “sloping gallery,” which connects the Museum’s buildings. Known for his large-scale, multi-dimensional installations, Drew employs organic materials to create topographies that are looming in size and stunning in their intricacies. Additionally, the Museum’s 2023 program debuts conservation scholarship in an examination of late work by modernist painter Arthur Dove, providing new insight into the prolific artist’s process.
Elizabeth Turk
May 2023–May 2024
In continuation of the multiyear outdoor sculpture program launched in 2022 to activate the Museum’s grounds, Elizabeth Turk’s The Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction will mark the third installation in this initiative. Turk’s series comprises vertical sound sculptures of bird species that are endangered or are extinct. Each artwork is a sculptural visualization of the call of a bird that has reached, or surpassed, a tipping point. Whether it is a story of loss (the Ivory-billed Woodpecker) or regeneration (Bald Eagle), each sculpture stands as a totemic memorial to a particular species, reminding us of our role in the precious and delicate—and quickly changing—environment. Accompanying each sculpture is a QR code containing the audio files of the bird’s song; many of the species inhabit, or were previously found, in Texas.
Leonardo Drew
June 17, 2023–June 2024
Sculptor Leonardo Drew is the next contemporary artist to transform the Museum’s first-floor galleries with a new site-specific commission. Known for his large-scale, multi-dimensional installations, Drew employs organic materials to create topographies that are looming in size and stunning in their intricacies. For this project, Drew will anchor sculptural pieces that he refers to as “planets” and surround them with hundreds of smaller objects as he works to identify the interconnectedness of them all. This commission is the latest in a series initiated by the Carter in 2015 to respond to works in the Museum’s collection through the perspectives of American artists working today.
Trespassers: James Prosek and the Texas Prairie
September 16, 2023–May 12, 2024
Less than 1 percent of native prairies exist across the state of Texas. This conservation concern is the catalyst for more than 20 new works created by artist and naturalist James Prosek. Over the past two years, Prosek has traveled to grassland habitats across the state, ranging from urban restoration projects to unplowed remnant prairies, documenting the rich plant and wildlife diversity of these spaces. Trespassers: James Prosek and the Texas Prairie features a new large-scale silhouette painting, one of Prosek’s signature working styles; watercolor portraits of plants collected during his travels; and trompe l’oeil clay and bronze sculptures of wildflowers. Through these works, Prosek investigates the allure of Texas’s grasslands while raising broader questions about the boundaries that shape, limit, and define prairie spaces in the present day.
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