TRIFECTA AT THE WAREHOUSE

Three thought-provoking exhibitions are on view this spring at the venerated collection space.

In the wake of world-changing events throughout 2020–2021, The Warehouse has initiated an annual exhibition of the work of a single artist that they invite visitors to view up close, and when possible, in depth. The first exhibition of recent paintings by Justin Caguiat titled, The Fool, will be on display through Mar. 22. Caguiat’s intimately rendered, largescale paintings on unstretched canvas portray a universe of figures and forms, representational and abstract, with a rich palette and layered surfaces that seem to float in a dreamlike world of memory and imagination. Additionally, through May 28, Sound as Sculpture, investigates foundational works from the 1960s and 1970s, alongside more contemporary works, to examine how artists use sound to create an experience of space as time, play with the body’s ability to emit/transmit/perceive/ absorb sound, and draw on the psychological and poetic effects of sound in space. Also, on view through May 28, Tender Objects: Emotion and Sensation after Minimalism features a collaboration between The Warehouse and the Department of Art History in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. The joint effort led by Dr. Anna Lovatt’s graduate seminar explores how artworks that adopt minimalist formal strategies can activate a fleeting, even indefinable, emotional response from viewers. The exhibition includes work by Laurie Anderson, Tonico Lemos Auad, Mark Bradford, John Cage, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Nancy Holt, Pierre Huyghe, Alvin Lucier, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Adrian Piper, Emilio Prini, Tomás Saraceno, Nora Schultz, Richard Serra, Haegue Yang, and Minoru Yoshida.

Above, left to right: Anne Truitt, American, 1921–2004, Valley Forge, 1963, acrylic on wood, 60.50 x 60.25 x 12 in. The Rachofsky Collection. Photograph by Kevin Todora; Laurie Anderson, American, born 1947, Handphone Table — Remembering Sound, 1979, wood, electronics, and audio transducers, 33 x 37.50 x 23.25 in. The Rachofsky Collection. Photograph by Kevin Todora.