A group show with works by assume vivid astro focus, Barbara Bestor, Anthony Burdin, Anne Collier, Richard Hawkins, Dave Muller, Polly Staple, and A.A. Weinman
 
Public Art Fund Projects
in Central Park
A collaboration with the
Whitney Biennial

April 17 - 19, 2004
11am - 5pm daily

The Arsenal Gallery, the Arsenal in Central Park

Public Art Fund, in collaboration with the Whitney Museum, presents nine installations by seven artists for the 2004 Biennial Exhibition. Building upon the outdoor presentation of Biennial works in 2002, this year's show includes artists' site-specific reactions to Central Park as well as several sculptural projects that were conceived independently of location. For the first time, the exhibition includes a weekend event of openings and participatory artists' projects in the park.

Since 1994, artist Dave Muller has been organizing Three Day Weekends, a series of roving, intermittent group exhibitions-he describes the ongoing project as an "artist-run, nomadic project space." These shows remain on view for only three days and then disappear as suddenly as they arrived, remaining after the fact as little more than a rumor. Non-hierarchical and inclusive in nature, Muller's Three Day Weekends critique art world conventions even as they participate in them: Muller condenses the formal structure of mainstream gallery and museum exhibitions, offering an affable, open-ended alternative that emphasizes the social experience of viewing art. For Central Park, Muller organized Themeless (A Carnival of Sorts), featuring works by seven contemporary artists (click here for a full list) as well as a pair of bronze eagles made by early 20th-century sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman.

Artist Bio
Dave Muller was born in 1964 in San Francisco, CA. He received his MFA in 1993 at the California Institute of the Arts and studied at the Fine Arts Graduate Program School of Visual Arts in New York in 1990-91. He has had recent solo shows at Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna (2004); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2003); Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (2003); and The Approach, London (2002). Muller has participated in the group shows "Playlist," Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2004); "It Happened Tomorrow," 7th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon (curated by Robert Nickas, 2003); "For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (2003); and "Subtle Occupation," Murray Guy, New York, (2003). He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Sponsorship
The Public Art Fund projects in Central Park, presented in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, were sponsored by Bloomberg and generously supported by Adam Lindemann.

This exhibition was made possible through the cooperation of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.

Location
The Arsenal Gallery in the Arsenal Building, Third Floor, Fifth Avenue and 64th Street.
View a map of Public Art Fund Projects in Central Park --A collaboration with the Whitney Biennial.