New York City-based artist Kevin Beasley will be the first to present work in Tippet’s Field, a new four-acre landscape which previously housed the Art Center’s main parking lot. Comprised of a series of  large-scale resin slabs—four triptychs measuring a hundred-feet-long—the exhibition marks his largest sculptural installation to date. By embedding clothing, fabric, plants, and other materials into the work, Beasley synthesizes complex and layered histories of the landscape into a three-dimensional composition.  A freestanding sculptural environment, the work will function as a landscape unto itself, encompassing the viewer in a panoramic experience set within nature. Seen from a distance, the composition’s top edge will evoke the straight line of the horizon: a meditative, liminal space that connects earth and sky. Through Beasley’s collaboration with other artists, musicians, and performers, the site will be activated through a performance that highlights the passage of time as central to our experience of nature.

The exhibition is co-curated by Nora Lawrence, Executive Director, and Eric Booker, Associate Curator, with Adela Goldsmith, Curatorial Assistant.

This exhibition is made possible with major support by Roberta and Steven Denning, the Hazen Polsky Foundation, and the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, with lead support by Janet Benton and David Schunter, Jennifer Brorsen and Richard DeMartini, Agnes Gund, and Lipman Family Foundation, with support also provided by Regen Projects and supported in part by Candace Carmel Barasch, Allison and Larry Berg, and Girlfriend Fund.

This project is supported through a Market New York grant awarded by Empire State Development, and I LOVE NY, New York State’s Division of Tourism.
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This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.