Fundraiser
Artist Plate Project 2022
Coalition for the Homeless
Launching May 22, 2023, 10am edt
Limited-edition bone china plates produced by Prospect and featuring artwork by more than forty artists—including Virgil Abloh, Derrick Adams, Harold Ancart, Georg Baselitz, Amoako Boafo, Mark Grotjahn, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, Ed Ruscha, Anna Weyant, and Jonas Wood—will be sold through Artware Editions to raise funds for the Coalition’s lifesaving programs. The funds raised by the sale of the plates will provide food, crisis services, housing, and other critical aid to thousands of people experiencing homelessness and instability. The purchase of one plate can feed one hundred homeless and hungry New Yorkers.
Takashi Murakami, Gargantua on Your Palm, 2018 © 2018 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved
Online Reading
Harold Ancart
Soft Places
Harold Ancart: Soft Places is available for online reading from February 22 through March 23 as part of Artist Spotlight: Harold Ancart. It features selected works on paper that Ancart made between 2009 and 2015 as well as writing by the artist. Published by Triangle Books, the book presents Ancart’s first semiabstract and monochromatic drawings and his psychedelic colorful landscapes.
Harold Ancart: Soft Places, 2nd ed. (Brussels: Triangle Books, 2018)
Public Installation
Harold Ancart
Subliminal Standard
May 1, 2019–March 1, 2020
Cadman Plaza Park, New York
www.publicartfund.org
Commissioned by Public Art Fund, Harold Ancart has created this painted concrete sculpture as an homage to the accidental abstract compositions that appear on New York City’s ubiquitous freestanding handball walls. Fascinated by seemingly quotidian found forms and patterns, Ancart sees the mismatched repainting and partial repairs that mask graffiti and other wear on these courts as “subliminal,” inadvertent masterpieces and relishes their fortuitous connection to the canon of abstract art.
Harold Ancart, Subliminal Standard, 2019, installation view, Cadman Plaza Park, New York © Harold Ancart. Photo: Nicholas Knight