89 | Paula Crown NYC 2024
Booth #89
Curated by Ambre Kelly + Andrew Gori as part of the Artist Spotlight
Featuring Artist Paula Crown
For Spring/Break NYC 2024 Paula Crown presents PERforations (4, 11,10, 9, 8, 7), exhibited for the first time. The component pieces are handmade modular forms in fabricated wood that can be arranged differently in response to each new exhibition space. As with the cast cups in Crown’s #solotogether exhibition at Rockefeller Center in 2023, PERforations (4, 11,10, 9, 8, 7) are distinctive individual units meant to be experienced as a collective whole.
Fans of Paula Crown’s work might recognize PERforations (4, 11,10, 9, 8, 7) as being similar to the monumental sculpture included in an outdoor public installation in Miami from 2015-16 titled Transposition: Over Many Miles. That original sculpture, called PERforation, was an enlarged three-dimensional interpretation of torn paper edgings from a spiral-bound notebook where Crown had drawn a mountain range. That version of PERforation (2014-15) was made in collaboration with Theaster Gates’s Studio, Studio Gang Architects, and Design Apprenticeship Program students from the Arts Incubator program at the University of Chicago.
PERforations (4, 11,10, 9, 8, 7) are, in fact, the removed selvage shapes from the earlier PERforation sculpture, given new artistic life as agile and energized sculptural forms. Crown is intent upon exploring the fresh exhibition possibilities generated by these newly portable shapes, but she has not ruled out reassembling them back into their original form at a future date.
Paula Crown was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts. She has an AB from Duke University and an MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work encompasses 3D technology, drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Rockefeller Center and Marlborough Gallery in New York City and has been included in group exhibitions at Jack Shainman Gallery and The International Center for Photography. Crown’s public artworks have been exhibited at the Miami Design District and at The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. Crown is committed to sustainability and uses environmentally-sound studio practices. Crown has work in both the Agnes Gund and the Tishman Speyer collections. In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Crown to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. She is an active member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and serves on The Aspen Institute Committee of the Arts.
