2010 School of Art Annual Student Exhibition
February 27 - March 13, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, February 26, 6 - 8 p.m.

2010 School of Art Masters Thesis Exhibition
March 27 - April 24, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, March 26, 6 - 8 p.m.

Tomás Saraceno: Lighter than Air
May 14 - July 31, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 13, 6 - 8 p.m.

Next summer, Blaffer Gallery presents Tomás Saraceno: Lighter than Air. Organized by the Walker Art Center in
Minneapolis and showcasing Saraceno’s installations, sculptures, and photographs made since 2003, the
touring exhibition is the artist’s first large-scale museum presentation in the United States. By reexamining the conventions of art and architecture, Saraceno suggests imaginative solutions to complex questions about how we populate and coexist in the world. His architectural proposals use the interdependencies of systems to ponder ecological questions that go beyond the natural world. Specifically, the artist contrives environments that anticipate new sociocultural platforms for experiencing and interacting with our surroundings.


Gabriel Kuri: Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab

Organized by Blaffer Gallery director and chief curator Claudia Schmuckli, this ten year survey is the first solo museum exhibition dedicated to Gabriel Kuri in the United States. Kuri began his studies at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Mexico City, spent four years working in the studio of sculptor Gabriel Orozco, and in 1993 moved to London to attend Goldmsith’s College where he studied with Liam Gillick. He now lives and works in Mexico City and Brussels, Belgium. Kuri’s spatial and sculptural accumulations combine the social tone of Conceptual Art with the poetry of Arte Povera. His work is a careful investigation into the physical and semantic weight of materials and their sculptural and allegorical abilities to sustain, shape, and accumulate meaning.