A Tour of the Monuments of Storm King Art Center by Allyson Vieira
Presented with Storm King Art Center
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
October 11 and 12, 2015
Allyson Vieira invites visitors to see Storm King Art Center in new ways with her limited edition map: A Tour of the Monuments of Storm King Art Center. This project, inspired by Robert Smithson's A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey, highlights previously unmapped infrastructure and support objects that silently co-exist with monumentally-scaled sculptures. Based on meticulous field notations, Vieira's exhaustive and detailed map elevates objects of infrastructure, industry, and manufacture; meanwhile, the artworks recede into the background.
A Tour of the Monuments of Storm King Art Center offers four self-guided tours: Water, Accommodations, Boundaries, and Utilities. Copies of this limited edition will be available for free to all visitors, and can be obtained on October 11 and 12 during Storm King's public hours, from Storm King's Visitor Center as well as their Pop-up Shop. On each of these days, Vieira will give short introductions to the project at 2pm at the Visitor Center.
This program is presented with Storm King Art Center as part of their ongoing Wanderings and Wonderings series. Initiated in 2013 by the Storm King Art Center, Wanderings and Wonderings invites visitors to engage with artists in creative and unexpected ways. Participating artists have created tours, maps, performances, poetry and movement workshops, new media, and deeply thoughtful conversations. Since 2015, Wanderings and Wonderings has been co-presented with Shandaken: Storm King, and features select alumni and their collaborators.
Allyson Vieira lives and works in New York. She received a BFA in studio art from The Cooper Union and an MFA in sculpture from Bard College. Vieira's work has been presented in international institutions, including a recent museum solo show, The Plural Present, at the Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, which traveled to the Swiss Institute, New York. Other international institutional presentations include the exhibition of finalists for the Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukCentre, Kiev, UA, and Build On, Build Against, with Stephen Ellis at Non Objectif Sud, Tulette, France. In the US, her work has been featured in the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum; and by Frieze, Public Art Fund, The Highline, and Sculpture Center, NY. Recently, she has had major gallery presentations at Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, BR, The Breeder, Athens, GR, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, CA, Laurel Gitlen, New York, and Monica de Cardenas, Milan, IT. Her work has been covered by major publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Frieze, Modern Painters, Architectural Record, Du, and Art in America. Vieira's writing has recently been featured on Conceptual Fine Art, in Du magazine, and Artforum.com.