From September 5 through October 19, Nancy Hoffman Gallery will host its first solo exhibition of work by artist Tiffany Shlain, titled You Are Here. The exhibition will include a selection of Shlain’s supergraphics, tree-ring projections and sculptures, light boxes, and photographs, investigating ideas in feminism, philosophy, technology, neuroscience, and nature.

“In the exhibition You Are Here, I will go back thousands of years in time, or thousands of miles in space, to reposition our relationship with nature and history,” explains Shlain. “By shifting our sense of scale, we see things differently: the earth, war, feminism, neuroscience, and our own lives We gain a different perspective on where we are, and where we want to go.”

Included in the exhibition will be the sculpture Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring, which was installed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. last Fall and will be on view in Madison Square Park September 21, 2024. A new short documentary film about ideas explored in Dendrofemonology will debut at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, and be on view throughout the run of the exhibition.

About the Artist:

Tiffany Shlain was born in San Francisco in 1970. She received her BA in interdisciplinary studies from University of California, Berkeley, where she was valedictorian speaker, and studied filmmaking at New York University’s Sight & Sound program. She was invited back to UC Berkeley to give the campus-wide commencement in 2010, which NPR included on its list of best commencement speeches. She is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Mall in Washington D.C. with the National Women’s History Museum, the de Young Museum of Fine Arts, the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and embassies globally. Her upcoming joint exhibition for the Getty Museum’s art initiative PST: Art & Science Collide, with Ken Goldberg, Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time and Technology opens at the Skirball Cultural Center on Oct 17th,  in Los Angeles.  Her over 60 awards and distinctions include honors for her films, visual work, and writing; selection by the Albert Einstein Foundation for their Genius100 list; the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Intellectual Activity, and artist residencies at the San Francisco Ferry Building’s SHACK15 and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She founded the Webby Awards and is author of the national bestselling book 24/6: Giving Up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection, winner of the Marshall Mcluhan Outstanding Book Award.

Dates: September 5 - October 19, 2024

Opening Reception: September 5, 2024

In addition the opening reception on Thursday, Sep 5th, 6 to 8pm, please join us:

Saturday, September 21st 10am to Noon for Shlain’s sculpture on view at Madison Square Park and an artist talk back at the gallery at 11:30am

Shlain’s sculpture Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring, will be on view at Madison Square Park on September 21st, 10am for an Art Mobilization for Women’s Rights and the Planet to kick-off Climate week.

10am Meet us at Madison Square Park, Farragut Lawn where there will be a powerful short program featuring speakers in the gender equality and climate justice movement along with select cast members from the Tony award-winning Broadway musical, SUFFS. We are inviting everyone to wear white.

10:30AM-ish: After the short program in Madison Square Park, join our Walk for Women’s Rights and the Planet as we all head to the High Line, then on to Nancy Hoffman Gallery. 

11:30AM: At Nancy Hoffman Gallery,  there will be a viewing  Shlain’s new short film about the ideas explored in Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring, as well as an artist tour and talk.

Info and RSVP here

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday from 11 AM - 5:00 PM

Location: Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 520 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001

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