July 31, 2017

STORM KING ART CENTER ANNOUNCES NEW INSTALLATIONS AND LOANS,

EXTENDED SUMMER HOURS AND PROGRAMS, PRESTIGIOUS GRANTS, AND OTHER NEWS

EDUCATION & PROGRAMMING Storm King’s robust educational programming includes programs for children and families, school partnerships, and such public programs as artist talks, concerts, yoga, and beekeeper tours. The Shandaken Project at Storm King, a residency program, continues through September. Storm King has already hosted a range of public programs around this year’s Outlooks installation, The Oracle of Lacuna by artist Heather Hart. The exhibition comprises an interactive sculptural environment in the form of a domestic rooftop—a space that, in collaboration with community partners, is enlivened by music, workshops, performances, spoken word and poetry, and other events. Storm King hosted a Poetry Out Loud event with students from Storm King’s partner school, Horizons-on-the-Hudson, and a local high school, Newburgh Free Academy West, as well as musical performances by Chargaux. Upcoming events relating to The Oracle of Lacuna include a hands-on program for children and families led by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh, a performance by The Dance Cartel and Storyboard, and a public program with Rise & Root Farm. Upcoming Wanderings & Wonderings programs feature former Shandaken Project at Storm King residents Zavé G. Martohardjono, Lachell Workman, and Kristen Jensen. Storm King will also host the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival on September 1 and 2, featuring sunset performances of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.

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EXTENDED SUMMER HOURS

In celebration of the summer season, Storm King will be open until 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays through Labor Day weekend. Evening events and programs include Summer Fridays Happy Hours (open to Storm King Members), concerts, tours, yoga, and sketching workshops. Visitors can also enjoy new dining options, including a food truck serving quesadillas, beverages, and snacks. The food services at Storm King are run by Fresh Company, a local caterer based in Garrison, New York. Fresh Company places an emphasis on using local ingredients, buying from Red Barn Produce, Regional Access, and Farms2tables, as well as purchasing directly from regional farms such as Shunpike Dairy, Blooming Hill Farm, Common Ground Farm, and others.

NEW LOANS & COLLECTION

INSTALLATIONS Loans complement the permanent collection at Storm King. This season features artist Huma Bhabha’s The Orientalist, 2007, and Mark di Suvero’s She, 1977–78. The Orientalist is on loan from Klondike Resources, Inc., courtesy of Joel and Sherry Mallin. The Orientalist, an important and prominent work for Bhabha—created within the first few years in which she gained notoriety as an artist—is the first work by the Pakistan-born, Poughkeepsie-based artist to be on view at Storm King. Mark di Suvero’s She, 1977-78, is on loan from a private collector. The work was constructed at Mark di Suvero’s studio in Petaluma, California and notably was part of the artist’s first exhibition at Storm King Art Center in 1985. She was also exhibited in Mark di Suvero at Governors Island presented by Storm King Art Center in 2011-2012. The title, She, references Isamu Noguchi’s 1970-71 sculpture of the same name. When di Suvero lived in Venice, Italy, he had an image of Noguchi’s version. The sculpture’s three kinetic elements illustrate several major aspects in di Suvero’s work: the mastery of metal work as shown by the cut and bent I-beam of the hanging steel element, the repurposing of used industrial materials with the steam roller, and the artist’s invitation for visitors to experience the swinging wooden bed. Each season Storm King reinstalls works in its permanent collection in new areas around the

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property. Such changes for the 2017 season include relocations of Mark di Suvero’s Mahatma, 1978-79; Charles Ginnever’s Prospect Mountain Project (For David Smith), 1979; and Robert Murray’s Kiana, 1978.

RECENT GRANTS & FUNDING Storm King has received a prestigious grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support Storm King’s archive program and a new oral history initiative in 2017 and 2018. These programs will jointly serve to preserve the perspectives of the leaders and artists who supported the growth of Storm King, as well as the physical items that document this history. Storm King’s Outlooks exhibition series, which invites one emerging or mid-career artist to engage with Storm King’s landscape and create a site-specific work for a single season, received generous funds from the Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust, Via Art Fund, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in 2017. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation have provided support for The Shandaken Project at Storm King, a process-based artist residency program hosted on the grounds of the Art Center. Storm King’s special exhibition for 2017, David Smith: The White Sculptures, received institutional support from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bafflin Foundation, the Henry Moore Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, and The Robert Lehman Foundation. Storm King has also received a major grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in support of its school partnership programs in 2017 and 2018.

LANDSCAPE

A fundamental element of Storm King’s mission, the preservation of the Art Center’s landscape and ecology, is critical to its ongoing success and to the visitor experience. For much of its history, Storm King worked with landscape architect William A. Rutherford and more recently with native grass expert Darrel Morrison. As Storm King seeks to preserve and enhance its natural resources, the Art Center has engaged landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand to advise on preserving its iconic allées. With Reed Hilderbrand and other partners, Storm King is exploring new and innovative ways to enrich and maintain its 500-acre landscape, frame art in

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nature, encourage ecological diversity, and create a long-term plan for a sustainable natural landscape.

LEADERSHIP NEWS

Storm King is delighted to announce the election of Debby Landesman to its Board of Trustees. Landesman currently operates a consulting business that works with foundations and corporate clients on philanthropic strategy, program design, and community engagement. Previously, she was the executive director of the Levi Strauss Foundation in San Francisco, and also worked as a senior program officer at the Kresge Foundation in Detroit. She did her undergraduate work at Notre Dame University and holds a graduate degree from Washington University’s School of Engineering. Landesman was also awarded a three-year fellowship through the Kellogg Leadership Program. Prior to accepting the nomination to join Storm King’s board, Debby and her husband Rocco were Director’s Council Members as well as generous supporters of Storm King’s Summer Solstice Celebration and annual fund. Debby also serves as a Board Member for the Public Theater in New York City, is Chair of the Board for the McKnight Foundation, and serves on the Arts Advisory Council for the Salzburg Global Seminar. Storm King is also pleased to announce Rachel L. Coker as Deputy Director, External Affairs, overseeing all fundraising, marketing, and communications efforts for Storm King. Coker was previously the Director of Development at Storm King—the first to serve in this role—during which time she helped establish the Annual Gala and Live Auction, the popular Summer Solstice Celebration, the diverse and growing group of Storm King Council members, and partnership opportunities for members, supporters, and visitors alike. Prior to Storm King, Coker held fundraising and event positions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and The Perlman Music Program. She also worked in the curatorial department at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Coker holds an MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University.

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Image Captions:

1. Chargaux performing during Storm King’s Opening Day Reception. Heather Hart, The Oracle of Lacuna, 2017. Wood, shingles, building materials, iPad, speakers. Courtesy the artist © Heather Hart

2. Poetry Out Loud event with partner school Horizons-on-the-Hudson. Heather Hart, The Oracle of Lacuna, 2017. Wood, shingles, building materials, iPad, speakers. Courtesy the artist © Heather Hart

3. Mark di Suvero, She, 1977–78. Private Collection. ©Mark di Suvero, courtesy of the artist and Spacetime C.C., New York. Photograph by Rebecca Smeyne for the New York Times.

4. Huma Bhabha, The Orientalist, 2007. Klondike Resources, Inc.; courtesy of Sherry and Joel Mallin 5. Mark di Suvero, She, 1977–78. Private Collection. Background: Pyramidian, 1987/1998, Gift of the Ralph

E. Ogden Foundation. ©Mark di Suvero, courtesy of the artist and Spacetime C.C., New York. Photograph by Vladimir Weinstein/BFA.com.

6. David Smith, Primo Piano I, 1962. Private Collection, California. Primo Piano II, 1962. The Estate of David Smith, New York; courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Art © The Estate of David Smith/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson.

7. Maya Lin, Storm King Wavefield, 2007 – 08. © Maya Lin Studio, courtesy Pace Gallery. Photo by Jerry L. Thompson.

8. Photo courtesy of Debby Landesman. 9. Photo by Nigel Parry.

About Storm King Art Center Storm King Art Center is one of the world’s leading sculpture parks. Located in New York’s Hudson Valley about an hour north of New York City, Storm King encompasses over 500 acres of rolling hills, woodlands, and fields of native grasses and wildflowers. This landscape provides a dramatic backdrop for a collection of more than 100 large-scale sculptures by some of the most acclaimed artists of our time, including Alice Aycock, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, Andy Goldsworthy, Sol Lewitt, Maya Lin, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Nam June Paik, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, David Smith, and Ursula von Rydingsvard, among others. Storm King is located at 1 Museum Road in New Windsor, New York. For information about hours and admission, membership, public transportation and directions, Zipcar discounts, special events, family activities, bike rentals, and the cafe, visit www.stormking.org, or call 845.534.3115. Roy Lichtenstein’s Mermaid is part of Storm King’s permanent collection, has been loaned to Middlebury College Museum of Art and is the centerpiece of Young America: Roy Lichtenstein and the America’s Cup. Featured in the exhibition are Lichtenstein’s original drawing for the project, and four important preliminary works by the artist. The exhibition, in conjunction with the 2017 America’s Cup, will run through August 13, 2017. Join the conversation on social media by mentioning Storm King Art Center and using the hashtags #StormKing, #TheWhiteSculptures, #Outlooks, #HeatherHart and #SummeratStormKing when posting. Facebook: StormKingArtCenter | Instagram: @stormkingartcenter | Twitter: @StormKingArtCtr Media Contacts: Taylor Maatman / FITZ & CO / tmaatman@fitzandco.com / 646.589.0926 Ellen Dulsky Watkins / FITZ & CO / ewatkins@fitzandco.com / 646.589.0929