Today Dia announced its exhibition program for 2022 across its three primary exhibition spaces: Dia Beacon, Dia Bridgehampton, and Dia Chelsea, including the second exhibition at the renovated Dia Chelsea—a new commission by the artist Camille Norment; four new exhibitions at Dia Beacon of work by Larry Bell, Jo Baer, Melvin Edwards, and Jack Whitten, as well as the reinstallation of influential works from the collection by Blinky Palermo, Robert Irwin, and Lawrence Weiner; a new exhibition of work by Leslie Hewitt at Dia Bridgehampton; and the launch of part two of Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s Artist Web Project.
Larry Bell
Opening March 12, long-term view
Dia Beacon
A leading figure of southern California’s Light and Space movement, Larry Bell explores the intersections of light, color, and volume through glass. This exhibition at Dia Beacon brings together a focused selection of Bell’s early sculptures, from key small cubes to one of his first freestanding sculptures, Standings Walls (1968), now in Dia’s collection. These will be presented alongside Duo Nesting Boxes (2021), a new diptych conceived for Dia Beacon.
Camille Norment
March 3, 2022–January 29, 2023
Dia Chelsea
Throughout her career, Camille Norment has probed what she terms “cultural psychoacoustics,” defined as the investigation of sociocultural phenomena through sound and music. In particular, she explores three tones: the bell, feedback, and the sine wave. Expanding on these sonic phenomena for her site-specific commission at Dia Chelsea, Norment will create distinct sculptural installations for the two galleries, which she will unite through a sonic composition.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth Part II
Launching online February 2022
Artist Web Projects
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme launch part two of their new online work as part of Dia’s long-standing Artist Web Projects series. A co-commission with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (2020– ) revolves around collected online recordings of everyday people singing and dancing in communal spaces in Iraq, Palestine, and Syria. This work brings these recordings together with new performances conceived by the artists, a dancer, and a group of musicians in the cultural underground of Ramallah, Palestine.
Jo Baer
Opening April 8, long-term view
Dia Beacon
This exhibition marks the first presentation of Jo Baer’s work at Dia since the vital 2002 survey Jo Baer: The Minimalist Years, 1960–1975 at Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea. Following several recent acquisitions, this display of her early paintings traces the artist’s progressive experiments with color, form, and visual framing in the 1960s and ‘70s.
Melvin Edwards
Opening May 6, long-term view
Dia Beacon
This exhibition presents a group of previously unrealized installations from one of sculptor Melvin Edward’s most dynamic bodies of work. In a brief but prolific period between 1969 and 1970, Edwards developed a series of environmentally scaled sculptures using steel from barbed wire. While a small number of these artworks have historically been installed, the rest have remained as diagrammatic plans. Three of these installations, which recently entered Dia’s permanent collection, will be on view here for the first time.
Leslie Hewitt
June 24, 2022–June 5, 2023
Dia Bridgehampton
Leslie Hewitt’s approach to photography and sculpture reimagines the art-historical still-life genre from a Postminimal perspective. Her geometric compositions, which she frames and crystallizes through the disciplines of photography and film theory, are spare assemblages of ordinary objects and materials, suggesting the porosity between intimate and sociopolitical histories. In summer 2022, Hewitt presents a newly commissioned body of low-profile sculptures, as well as diagrammatic scores composed in collaboration with artist Jamal Cyrus.
Blinky Palermo
Opening June 2022, long-term view
Dia Beacon
Returning to view at Dia Beacon, Times of the Day (1974–76) is a pivotal series in Blinky Palermo’s oeuvre, yet one that is rarely seen in its entirety. Conceived by the artist after his relocation to New York City from Düsseldorf in 1973, Times of the Day comprises six four-part works and originates Palermo’s serialized, multipart Metal Pictures (or Metallbilder, in German), the last body of work in his short, yet pronounced, career.
Robert Irwin
Opening Summer 2022, long-term view
Dia Beacon
First realized as a commission in 1972 for Harvard University’s Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Full Room Skylight-Scrim V is an early scrim installation and marks the momentous shift in Robert Irwin’s practice which accompanied his discovery of the ethereal material in 1970. This large-scale work, which recently entered Dia’s permanent collection, goes on long-term view in summer 2022.
Lawrence Weiner
Opening August 2022, long-term view
Dia Beacon
Language lies at the core of Lawrence Weiner’s practice, providing a medium for representing material relationships in the external world as objectively as possible. At Dia Beacon, visitors encounter Weiner’s text works in different environments—in a stairwell, in the café, over the admissions desk, or on the back of the building. This installation brings a key work, 5 Figures of Structure (1987), back to the galleries.
Jack Whitten
November 2022–July 2023
Dia Beacon
Jack Whitten’s work from the 1970s marks a juncture in his career in which he embarked on what would become a sustained interest in experimental processes and materials. Opening at Dia Beacon this fall is the first-ever exhibition devoted to Whitten’s Greek Alphabet (1975–78) painting series. Bringing together forty paintings from private and institutional lenders, this exhibition offers unique insight into a pivotal moment in his practice.
Dia Art Foundation
Taking its name from the Greek word meaning “through,” Dia was established in 1974 with the mission to serve as a conduit for artists to realize ambitious new projects, unmediated by overt interpretation and uncurbed by the limitations of more traditional museums and galleries. In addition to Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea, Dia maintains and operates a constellation of commissions, long-term installations, site-specific projects, and Land art, nationally and internationally.
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