#sunsplashed

This Sunday, 3:30PM at the #BarnesFoundation, #NariWard—known for his dramatic installations—and #PAMM Associate Curator Diana Nawi will deliver a tribute to the pieces that have been destroyed over the course of Ward’s 20-year practice. The performative talk is a meditation on labor, leisure, and remembering. @nariward @nawinawinawi @barnesfoundation #sunsplashed

“Perhaps the key work in the show is ‘Savior’ (1996), a shopping cart turned Tower of Babel, a pile of webbed and woven stuff, including a fancy mantle clock near the bottom and a folding chair at the top. It is an elaboration of Ward's method of finding his materials and subjects, though also concerns people near the bottom of the social ladder, those who pick through trash not for art but for survival.” — @phillydotcom • #NariWard, #SunSplashed is on view at the #BarnesFoundation through August 22. @nariward @barnesfoundation (at The Barnes Foundation)

#NariWard, “Savior” (detail), 1996, shopping cart, plastic garbage bags, cloth, bottles, metal fence, earth, wheel, mirror, chair, and clocks, 128 x 36 x 23 inches, 325.1 x 91.4 x 58.4 cm • On view in #SunSplashed at the #BarnesFoundation through August 22. @nariward @barnesfoundation (at The Barnes Foundation)

“Mr. Ward’s political reflexes are keen but measured, layered. The 2004 installation called 'Glory,' a tanning bed constructed from oil barrels and designed to burn stars and stripes on the skin, is a response to what he views as the xenophobic and mercenary war in Iraq, but one that relates that war to another war, the one he sees waged daily by America on its black citizens." — @nytimes. • #NariWard “Sun Splashed” is open at the @barnesfoundation through August 22. @nariward #sunsplashed (at The Barnes Foundation)

"'Mango Tourist,' his gaggle of eight seared-foam, capacitor-bedecked, mango-seed-studded, 10-foot-tall figures was born, a wry reflection on the shared lives of the Berkshire hills and sunburned Jamaica. 'It's about energy, energy that's autonomous,' the soft-spoken @nariward said the other day as three tourists were being pried from crates in preparation for exhibition at the #BarnesFoundation. - @phillydotcom. • #NariWard #SunSplashed is now open through August 22. (at The Barnes Foundation)

Nari Ward, Sun Splashed, the Barnes Foundation.

#NariWard's "Beat Box," 2000 (#NewYorkCity pay phone stand, drum, and fire extinguisher) is included the artist's solo exhibition #SunSplashed, opening next Friday, June 24 at the #BarnesFoundation. @nariward @barnesfoundation

#PerezArtMuseumMiami has invited five local dancers to perform and improvise atop #NariWard’s floor work “Ground (In Progress).” Through movement, the performers will activate the work by responding to its ideas using a range of dance styles. February 18, 8pm. The artist’s mid-career retrospective, #SunSplashed closes at #PAMM this Sunday, February 21. @nariward @pammpics