Crane Arts Building Icebox Project Space
Philadelphia,
April 1 - 26, 2009
Tyler School of Art’s biennial alumni exhibition to benefit
Tyler exhibitions and public programs.
Victory For Tyler 2009 on Artblog
A juried exhibition of sculptures by 29 graduates of Temple’s Tyler School of Art from around the nation opens on April 4,2009 at the Crane Arts Building’s Ice Box Project Space in Philadelphia’s Northern Liberties neighborhood.
“Victory for Tyler 2009: Sculpture” is the third in a series of biennial exhibitions to benefit the Tyler School of Art’s exhibitions and public programs. The program is made possible through the efforts of more than 30 Tyler alumni volunteers. Artists from all over the country return to Philadelphia to
participate in this show.
Many forms of sculpture from more than 100 artists were considered by the show’s juror, Sarina Basta, curator of the Sculpture Center, Long island City, NY. The art selected for the exhibit included works that Basta says “push the realms of performance and installation”.
Victory for Tyler 2009: Sculpture runs April 1-26, 2009 in the impressive Ice Box Project Space, a single, uninterrupted 5,000-square-foot room, located in the Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American street, Philadelphia.
We will upload stills from the exhibit once we have them.
Contributors
Victory Brewing Company
Temple University Alumni Association
CRANE ARTS, LLC and Ice Box Project Space
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Victory for Tyler: Sculpture 2009 Juror: Sarina Basta
Sarina Basta is currently curator at Sculpture Center in Long Island City, New York where she regularly curates and organizes exhibitions and the organization’s public programming.
Sarina Basta joined Sculpture Center as curator in the spring of 2006. The public program series has involved artists and theoreticians from around the world, such as Beatriz Colomina, Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, and Eyal Weisman. Her recent exhibitions include Degrees of Remove, Landscape and Affect (2008), Michael Portnoy Casino Illinx (2008) and The Happiness of Objects (2007).
Ms. Basta was previously Manager and Designer at Acconci Studio in New York where she co-curated and co-designed the exhibition Diary of A Body (2003) for Barbara Gladstone Gallery. The International Critics Association recognized the exhibition as “Best Solo Gallery Exhibition in New York” (2004). Diary of A Body later traveled in an expanded iteration to FACT Liverpool in 2005 under the title Self/Sound/City.
Prior to her work with Acconci Studio, Ms. Basta had the post of Head of Communication at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Geneva, Switzerland. There she curated and co-curated Echo’s Laughter (2001), God is in the Details (2001), and New Deal (2002). Other exhibitions include Body Double XI (1999) with the Biennial of the Moving Image, St Gervais, Visions Propres (2001) in the city of Geneva, and Numéro 0 (2003) at the CNEAI (National Center for Prints) in Paris (Châtou), France.
Ms. Basta has regularly contributed to different art publications such as Texte Zur Kunst and Flash Art International. She also compiled and edited Vito Acconci’s chronologie raisonnée published in Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes and MACBA Barcelona (2004).
Ms. Basta received her B.S. degree in Political Science from the University of Geneva (1996) and a M.A. in Post-War and Contemporary Art from the University of Manchester and Sotheby’s Institute, London (1998). She also participated to the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Studies Program in 2005.
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