ICP-Bard MFA Chair Nayland Blake Included in New Museum Exhibition
ICP-Bard MFA Chair Nayland Blake will be included in the New Museum’s upcoming exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, on view September 27, 2017 through January 21, 2018.
Trigger investigates gender’s place in contemporary art and culture at a moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition features an intergenerational group of artists who explore gender beyond the binary to usher in more fluid and inclusive expressions of identity.
The exhibition will include a number of commissioned works, including Blake’s performance of “Crossing Object (inside Gnomen),” where his “fursona,” named Gnomen [pictured above], will periodically roam the New Museum’s lobby and collect secrets from the exhibition’s visitors. The piece echoes Blake’s performances as part of the 2013 ICP Triennial, A Different Kind of Order, where his character “Victorya Spectre” led tours of vanished gathering spots in Times Square.
Blake is an internationally acclaimed interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Des Moines Art Center; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the University Art Museum, Berkeley. He has been chair of the ICP-Bard MFA program since its inception in 2002.
The ICP Museum (250 Bowery) and the New Museum (235 Bowery) offer a combination admission ticket for $27. Tickets can be bought in-person at either museum and are available for purchase Wednesday through Sunday. Please call 844.694.1213 for more information.