Installation View of Will Insley's drawing in Dream Monuments at the Menil Drawing Institute.
Photo: Paul Hester.
Will Insley's /Building/ No. 41, Volume Space, Interior Swing Section Through (1973-81) is now on view in Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s at the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, Texas. The exhibition is cocurated by Erica DiBenedetto, guest curator, and Kelly Montana, Assistant Curator at the Menil Drawing Institute.
The exhibition highlights artists who created works on paper concerning monuments in improbable scale to reimagine history and environments.
The show takes inspiration from the unrealized exhibition Dream Monuments planned by Menil co-founders Dominique and John circa 1969. Their original plan invited nine artists to submit proposals for large-scale, site-specific sculptural monuments. Artists included Christo, Walter de Maria, Michael Heizer, Will Insley, Richard Long, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, and Robert Smithson.
The group exhibition at the Drawing Institute brings back those original nine artists and adds in eleven additional contemporaries working with monuments in conceptual and land art: Alice Aycock, Beverly Buchanan, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Mel Chin, Agnes Denes, Mary Beth Edelson, Jackie Ferrara, Gray Foy, Marta Minujín, Robert Rauschenberg, and Michelle Stuart.
Dream Monuments is on view through September 19, 2021.
