NY | “Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden” at the Neuberger Museum

Image: Yto Barrada. Untitled (After Stella, Rabat), 2017. Cotton, indigo, chamomile. 44 x 38 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery. Photography by Mark Waldhauser, courtesy Pace Gallery.

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Join ArtTable NY for a trip to the Neuberger Museum to see work by an internationally-acclaimed, Moroccan-French, multimedia artist and winner of the 2019 Roy R. Neuberger Prize, Yto Barrada. Helaine Posner, Chief Curator at the Neuberger Museum of Art and ArtTable member, will lead us through this exhibition and the museum’s collection. 

Following our tour, catered lunch will be provided at the Museum.

How does one transmit political courage? Yto Barrada asks.

The Neuberger Museum’s 2019 Roy R. Neuberger Prize, carrying an honorarium of $25,000, has been awarded to Yto Barrada, an internationally-acclaimed, Moroccan-French multi-media artist. In addition to the cash award, the exhibition, Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden, will be presented for the first time in the United States.

Originally presented at the American Academy in Rome and expanded for the Neuberger Museum of Art, Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden features recent work by Barrada, whose artistic practice weaves together family history and broader sociopolitical narratives, employing a variety of media, including photography, film, video, installation, sculpture, books, and hand-dyed textiles. The artist has long investigated gestures of resistance to structures of power and control. She has an abiding interest in mechanisms of displacement and dislocation, as well as questions of appropriation and authenticity.

Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden is co-organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art and the American Academy in Rome. Co-curated by Chief Curator Helaine Posner and Peter Benson Miller, Curator and former Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy. A fully-illustrated, multi-essay catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Generous support for the Roy R. Neuberger Prize has been provided by Jim Neuberger and Helen Stambler Neuberger.

Yto Barrada, who was born in Paris and raised in Tangier, had her first solo exhibition in 2003 at the Galerie Polaris, Paris. Since then, her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Jeu de Paume, Paris (2006); Venice Biennale (2007, 2011); and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009), among other venues. In 2011, she received Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year Award. According to Ms. Posner, Barrada’s wide-­-ranging intelligence and global perspective inform her work in a variety of media including photography, film, sculpture, and hand-­-dyed textiles. She creates aesthetically compelling images and objects and tackles serious sociopolitical and cultural issues leavened with humor.” Barrada now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Helaine Posner is Chief Curator at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, New York. Her exhibitions at the Neuberger Museum include Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden (0219), Leandro Erlich: Port of Reflections (2017), Louise Fishman: A Retrospective (2016), Robin Rhode: Animating the Everyday (2014), Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels (2011), and Tania Bruguera: On the Political Imaginary (2010), each accompanied by a monographic catalogue. From 1991-1998, she was curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts where she curated such exhibitions as Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation (1998); Glenn Ligon: Skin Tight (1995); and Leon Golub and Nancy Spero: War and Memory (1994); among other projects.  Previously, she was Director of the University Gallery, University of Massachusetts/Amherst.

Posner is the author of a monograph on the artist Kiki Smith (Monacelli, 2005) and was United States Co-commissioner for the 48th Venice Biennale where she organized Ann Hamilton: Myein. She is the co-author of the award-winning book After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art and of The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (Prestel, 2007 and 2013). She was curator of a mid-career survey of the work of Lorna Simpson which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Miami Art Museum; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2006-7). Posner is the recipient of three AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Awards.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History at Georgetown University and a Master of Arts degree from George Washington University, both in Washington, D.C.

Getting to the Neuberger Museum of Art: 

Neuberger Museum of Art is located:

10 minutes from White Plains, NY

10 minutes from Greenwich, CT

45 minutes from mid-town Manhattan

Train Directions: 

Use the Harlem Line of the Metro-North Railroad to arrive in White Plains.

Taxicabs/ Uber are readily available for hire to Purchase College.

Please visit http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mnr for schedule and fare information.

Thank you to Randy Rosen, ArtTable Member, and Helaine Posner, Chief Curator at the Neuberger Museum of Art.

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