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	Exhibitions CURRENT: The Crochet Coral Reef is constantly on display. See here for current, future, and past exhibitions of the Crochet Coral Reef. PAST: PLASTIC ENTANGLEMENTS: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials @ Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison September 13, 2019 – January 5, 2020 @ Smith College Museum of Art, New Hampshire February 8 – July 28, 2019 @ Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon September 22 – December 30, 2018 @ Palmer Art Museum, University of Pennsylvania February 13 – June 17th, 2018 TRADE MARKINGS: Frontier Imaginaries Ed. No. 5 @ Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands April 7 – July 1, 2018 EXPLODE EVERY DAY: An Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Wonder @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA May 28, 2016 – February 28, 2017 Crochet Coral Reef @ the University of California, Santa Cruz February 10 – May 6, 2017 Crochet Coral Reef @ Museum of Arts and Design, New York September 15, 2016 – January 22, 2017 Night Begins the Day @ the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco June 18 – Sept 20, 2015 Crochet Coral Reef @ Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX February 12 – April 26, 2015 Crochet Coral Reef @ New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, UAE September 28 – December 5, 2014 making space @ Google Venice Offices, Los Angeles October 2013 – February 2014 Science + Art Residency: Being Formed @ Institute For Figuring, Los Angeles July – December, 2013 An Alternative Guide to the Universe @ Hayward Gallery, London June 11 – August 26, 2013 Out of Fashion @ GL Holtegaard Museum, Copenhagen April 2013 – Jan 2014 making space @ Institute For Figuring, Los Angeles December 15, 2012 – June 29, 2013 Physics on the Fringe @ Institute For Figuring, Los Angeles April 14 – November 10, 2012 Mosely Snowflake Sponge Exhibition @ The USC Libraries September 20, 2012 – January 30, 2013 Midden Project @ The New Children's Museum, San Diego, CA October 15, 2011 –September 15, 2013 The Logic Alphabet of Shea Zellweger @ The Museum of Jurassic Technology Opening reception March 3, 2007 – March 3, 2012 IFF @ The Walker Art Center April 24 – September 29, 2009 Inventing Kindergarten @ Art Center College of Design, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery October 13, 2006 – January 7, 2007 Hyperbolic Cactus Garden + Hyperbolic Kelp Garden @ Fair Exhange, during the LA County Fair, Pomona Fairgrounds September 8 – October 1, 2006 The Business Card Menger Sponge @ Machine Project, Los Angeles Los Angeles – August 26 – September 24, 2006 Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane @ Machine Project, Los Angeles Los Angeles – July 2005 Philosophical Toys @ Apex Art, New York June/July 2005 Lithium Legs and Apocalyptic Photons @ The Santa Monica Museum of Art April 20 – June 9, 2002 Crochet Coral Reef Exhibitions Hyperbolic: Reefs, Rubbish, and Reason @ The Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA June 6 – August 21, 2011 Crochet Reef @ The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC October 16, 2010 – April 24, 2011 Crochet Reef @ The Science Gallery, Dublin March 20, 2010 – June 11, 2010 The IFF "Bleached Reef" @ The National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt, NYC May 14, 2010 – January 9, 2011 Crochet Cactus Garden Jackson Hole, WY June 26 – September 28, 2009 Crochet Reef Scottsdale, AZ April 11 – July 11, 2009 Crochet Reef Show @ Track 16 in Los Angeles Jan 10 – Feb 28, 2009 New York and Chicago Reefs Staten Island Sept 27 – Dec 20, 2008 UK Reef Tour Autumn 2008 Plastic Exploding Inevitable Reef San Francisco Sept 7 – Oct 3, 2008 Crochet Reef Symposium @ Southbank Center Friday June 13, 2008 Crochet Reef London June 11 – August 17, 2008 Crochet Reef New York April 6 – May 18, 2008 The Crochet Cactus Garden @ The Wignall Museum, Chaffey College January 29 – March 1, 2008 The Crochet Cactus Garden @ The David Weinberg Gallery October 26 – December 29, 2007 The Crochet Coral Reef @ The Chicago Cultural Center October 13 – December 16, 2007 The Crochet Coral Reef @ The Andy Warhol Museum March 11 – June 17, 2007	THE QUICK AND THE DEAD

		A small and delicate installation of hyperbolic crochet pieces will form part of the Walker Art Center's major survey exhibition "The Quick and the Dead" during summer 2009. The exhibition, which takes a fresh look at the history of conceptual art over the past century, is curated by Peter Eleey and considers the limits of objects and practices in space and time. Exhibition Venue: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Exhibition Dates: April 24 - September 28 2009
		Eleey describes the exhibition as follows: "Surveying art that tries to reach beyond itself and the limits of our knowledge and experience, The Quick and the Dead seeks, in part, to ask what is alive and dead within the legacy of conceptual art. Though the term “conceptual” has been applied to myriad kinds of art, it originally covered works and practices from the 1960s and ‘70s that emphasized the ideas behind or around a work of art, foregrounding language, action, and context rather than visual form. But this basic definition fails to convey the ambitions of many artists who have been variously described as conceptual: as Sol LeWitt asserted in 1969, conceptual artists are “mystics rather than rationalists.” Although some of their work involves unremarkable materials or even borders on the invisible, these artists explore new ways of thinking about time and space, often aspiring to realms and effects that fall far outside of our perceptual limitations." More Information about this exhibition may be seen here: http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=4486
		Exhibition Catalog - In addition to the works on display, IFF directors Margaret and Christine Wertheim have contributed an essay to the exhibition catalog book. The essay - entitled "Object and Ideal" - considers the relationship between mathematical ideas and their material embodiments. Click here to download a PDF of this essay Click here to purchase the catalog book of "The Quick and The Dead" published by the Walker Art Center.
		Exhibition Events - On Thursday July 30 2009, Margaret and Christine will give an artist's talk at the Walker in conjunction with the exhibition. Lecture Title: Visions of the Unknown Date and Time: Thursday July 30, 6:30pm-8pm - On Thursday July 30 2009, Margaret will give a workshop on plastic bag hyperbolic crochet as part of the exhibition outreach. Date and Time: Thursday July 30, 5pm - 6:30pm

		List of artists showing in "The Quick and the Dead": Francis Alÿs, Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Chan, Lygia Clark, Tony Conrad, Tacita Dean, Jason Dodge, Trisha Donnelly, Marcel Duchamp, Harold Edgerton, Ceal Floyer, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roger Hiorns, Douglas Huebler, Pierre Huyghe, The Institute For Figuring, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Christine Kozlov, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Mark Manders, Kris Martin, Steve McQueen, Helen Mirra, Catherine Murphy, Bruce Nauman, Rivane Neuenschwander, Claes Oldenburg, Roman Ondák, Giuseppe Penone, Susan Philipsz, Anthony Phillips, Adrian Piper, Steven Pippin, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Charles Ray, Tobias Rehberger, Hannah Rickards, Arthur Russell, Michael Sailstorfer, Roman Signer, Simon Starling, John Stezaker, Mladen Stilinovi?, Sturtevant, Shomei Tomatsu
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