(RE)COLLECTION

GALLERY TALK WITH CURATORS
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 11 A.M.
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
2 West 13th Street @ Fifth Avenue

Please join curators Silvia Rocciolo and John Wanzel, and Radhika Subramanian, director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons, for a gallery talk regarding the recent restoration of the mural "Ecuadorian Festival," by Camilo Egas. The 17-foot-long mural was commissioned by The New School in the early 1930's for its first building, an International Style landmark by Joseph Urban on West 12th Street.

After many years out of public view, the mural has been cleaned and restored, and is being displayed as part of (re)collection, an exhibition that explores the daily lives of art objects and the role of institutional art collections in the 21st century. (re) collection  features approximately 40 works from The New School’s art collection, including pieces by Larry Bell, Clegg and Guttman, Shirin Neshat, Roxy Paine, Peter Saul, Richard Tuttle, and Carrie Mae Weems.

To RSVP please contact Deborah Kirschner at [email protected] or 212.229.5667 x4310.

The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center is an award-winning campus center for Parsons The New School for Design that combines learning and public spaces with exhibition galleries to provide an important new downtown destination for art and design programming. The mission of the Center is to generate an active dialogue on the role of innovative art and design in responding to the contemporary world. Its programming encourages an interdisciplinary examination of possibility and process, linking the university to local and global debates. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu/sjdc.