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This spring, MoMA PS1 will present Hard Ground, a group exhibition that features work by seven New York-based artists who employ processes of compression, distillation, and subtraction. On view beginning May 16, the presentation provides a snapshot of this underexplored but significant tendency in contemporary art and includes over 40 works whose materials range from limestone and bronze to Dr. Pepper and a smelted Citi Bike. Diverging from a logic of assemblage and aggregation, these practices query how correlations between productivity, surface, and value are forged.
Hard Ground is organized by Jody Graf, Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1.
Learn more about the exhibition on our website.
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Images
Jerry the Marble Faun. Windsor. 2009. Indiana limestone with moss. 13 × 24 × 10 1/2″ (33 × 61 × 26.7 cm). Courtesy SITUATIONS, NYC. © Jerry the Marble Faun
Matt Browning. Thoroughfare. 2023. German Limewood. Collapsed: 13 ¼ × 5 ⅜ × 5 ⅜ inches (33.66 × 13.65 × 13.65 cm). Expanded: 20 × 5 ⅜ × 5 ⅜ inches (50.80 × 13.65 × 13.65 cm). Courtesy the artist
Dora Budor. Love Streams (5). 2022. Lexapro (Escitalopram), sandpaper. 12 7/16 × 10 1/2″ (31.6 × 26.6 cm) (framed). Unique. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Markus Tretter © Dora Budor, Kunsthaus Bregenz
Maria VMier. /[spine] from the series Objects of Request. 2022. Bronze and spandex. 12 5/8 × 7 7/8 × 7 1/2″ (32 × 20 × 19 cm). Courtesy the artist