POTOMAC, MD, September 18, 2024 — Glenstone Museum is pleased to announce new presentations opening on October 17, 2024, featuring works by American artists Cady Noland (b. 1956), Melvin Edwards (b.1937), and Lorraine O’Grady (b. 1934). This will be the first time each artist has exhibited at Glenstone. The exhibitions, which will remain on view through February 23, 2025, mark the first phase of reopening the renovated Pavilions building.

Spanning three rooms of the Pavilions, the presentation by Cady Noland was developed in collaboration with the artist and marks the first major survey by a U.S. museum of her decades-long career.

La primera exposición individual de Noland se llevó a cabo en 1988 en White Columns en Nueva York. Al año siguiente, presentó una exposición seminal en la Fábrica de Colchones de Pittsburgh. Luego participó en 1991 en la Bienal Whitney en el Museo Whitney de Arte Estadounidense, Nueva York, y en la Documenta 9 en Kassel, Alemania, en 1992. Las exposiciones posteriores incluyen el Museo Boijmans Van Beuningen en Rotterdam en 1995, y el Wadsworth Atheneum en Hartford, Connecticut, en 1996. En 2018 Noland fue objeto de una gran encuesta en el Museum für Moderne Kunst en Frankfurt, Alemania. La presentación en Glenstone mostrará obras icónicas que abarcan la carrera de Noland, desde algunas de sus primeras esculturas creadas a finales de los años 1980 hasta piezas recientes exhibidas en 2023 en Galería Gagosian en 75th & Park en Nueva York. La mayoría de las obras expuestas proceden de la colección de Glenstone.

On view in Room 9 of the Pavilions will be a selection of sculptures by Melvin Edwards from his ongoing Lynch Fragments series, a body of work begun in the 1960s in response to racial violence in the United States. Esta serie, que ya suma más de 200 obras únicas, está compuesta por formas abstractas soldadas que incorporan clavos, rastrillos, martillos, cadenas y otros objetos de acero desechado. Estos materiales evocan el sur rural de Estados Unidos y la infancia de Edwards en Houston, Texas, una ciudad aún segregada en aquel entonces.

In Room 11, Glenstone will present Cutting Out CONYT (1977/2017), a series of "haiku-like" diptych-poems by Lorraine O'Grady. The work is a reprisal of the artist's 1977 series of "found" newspaper poems, Cutting Out the New York Times (CONYT), which was influenced by O’Grady’s early career as a research economist and intelligence analyst. O'Grady, una notable políglota, pasó años examinando periódicos, informes y transcripciones, haciendo que el lenguaje "se desvaneciera". Cuarenta años más tarde, retomó los collages, recortando y agrupando reproducciones ampliadas de los 250 poemas originales en veintiséis nuevos paneles emparejados. El resultado es una poesía "contraconfesional" que convierte el lenguaje público en la poesía privada de un individuo con importancia colectiva. This presentation marks the debut of Cutting Out CONYT installed in its entirety as a sequence of quadriptychs, representing a new stage in the conceptualization of the piece and furtherance of O’Grady’s theory of the Both/And, a refutation of Western dualism.

"The diptych, appearance to the contrary, is anti-dualistic. That's why it's been my weapon of choice to oppose the West's 'either/or' binary, which is always exclusive and hierarchical," explains O'Grady. "I feel that the 'both/and' lack of resolution, an acceptance and embrace of it, is what needs to become the cultural goal."

Emily Wei Rales, director and co-founder of Glenstone, said, "One of our goals at Glenstone is to present work that redefines how we think about art, and in turn how art prompts us to think. That's exactly what we see in the work of these three critically important artists. Though very different in their practices, each has worked with found or appropriated materials, using them in highly distinctive ways to transform ideas about history, society, and ourselves. In their own ways, these exhibitions inspire us to engage with urgent issues of our time."

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Glenstone, un museo de arte moderno y contemporáneo, está integrado en casi 300 acres de pastos suavemente ondulados y bosques vírgenes en el condado de Montgomery, Maryland, a menos de 15 millas del corazón de Washington, DC. Creado por la Fundación Glenstone, una organización sin fines de lucro, el museo abrió sus puertas en 2006 y ofrece un entorno contemplativo e íntimo para experimentar obras de arte y arquitectura icónicas dentro de un ambiente natural. The museum includes its original building, the Gallery, as well as additional structures opened in its 2018 expansion designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners: the Arrival Hall (LEED platinum), the Pavilions, and the Café (both LEED gold).

Glenstone is open Thursdays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.From May 3 - September 28, 2024, Glenstone will stay open until 8 p.m. each Friday and Saturday with special summer programming. Admission to Glenstone is always free and visits can be scheduled online at: www.glenstone.org.