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The Drawing Center Appoints Laura Hoptman Executive Director
Laura Hoptman. Photo by Nick RelphNew York, July 31, 2018 – The Drawing Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Laura Hoptman as Executive Director effective September 10, 2018.
Hoptman has been a curator of contemporary art and a leading participant in the international art conversation for three decades. She comes to The Drawing Center after eight years as a curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, an institution where she also began her career in the 1990s as a curator with a specialty in drawing. Among the dozens of exhibitions that Hoptman has curated are Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, a landmark exhibition of contemporary figurative drawing at MoMA; retrospectives of the work of Yayoi Kusama, Isa Genzken, Henry Taylor, Bruce Conner, and Elizabeth Peyton, and the 54th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.
The Drawing Center Co-chairs Andrea Crane and Amy Gold announce that, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, “We are thrilled to welcome Laura Hoptman to The Drawing Center. Her unparalleled expertise and international experience will add extraordinary new vision and leadership to our venerable New York institution.”
Says Hoptman: “The Drawing Center has been an inspiration to me for my entire career in the arts—one that has taken me from local non-profits to MoMA. In its forty years of scholarship and programming, The Drawing Center has consistently provided new ways to look at drawing that prove the medium’s relevance to our understanding of how art intersects with who we are and how we live.”
“At this moment in its history,” she continues, “The Drawing Center is uniquely positioned to enhance its leadership role as a result of its unique strengths. In this time of cultural gigantism—museum expansions and building programs; the enlargement and franchising of commercial galleries—it makes sense to turn to modestly-scaled, issue oriented spaces to move the discussion forward. Smaller, more focused institutions are freer to introduce unfamiliar, speculative, or challenging material, to drill down on specific mediums or ideas, and to create diverse programming that is relevant, even urgent to a larger cultural conversation. Among my goals for the future of The Drawing Center is to diversify and expand our audience so that a larger community can participate in these deeper cultural discussions through the lens of drawing, which is perhaps the most inclusive artistic language of them all.”
at The Drawing Center
Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions
Through August 12, 2018
Hipkiss: Bulwark
Through August 12, 2018
Ellen Berkenblit: Lines Roar
Through August 12, 2018
For Opacity: Elijah Burgher, Toyin Ojih Odutola,
Nathaniel Mary Quinn
October 12, 2018–February 3, 2019
Jennifer Wynne Reeves: All Right for Now
October 12, 2018–February 3, 2019
Open Sessions 12
October 12–December 2, 2018
Open Sessions 13
December 14, 2018–February 3, 2019
Installations
Susan York: Foundation in the Lab Corridor
Through February 2019
Inka Essenhigh: Manhattanhenge in the Stairwell
Through August 2019
About The Drawing Center
The Drawing Center, a museum in Manhattan's SoHo district, explores the medium of drawing as primary, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture, the future of art and creative thought. Its activities, which are both multidisciplinary and broadly historical, include exhibitions; Open Sessions, a curated artist program encouraging community and collaboration; the Drawing Papers publication series; and education and public programs.
Location: 35 Wooster Street (btwn Broome and Grand St) in SoHo, New York.
Hours: Wednesday–Sunday: 12pm–6pm; Thursday: 12pm–8pm.
Tickets: Adults: $5; Students & Seniors: $3; Children under 12: Free
Thursdays 6–8pm free admission for all visitors.
The Drawing Center is wheelchair accessible.
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