May 7 - June 24, 2000: Ruth Horwich Gallery
Featuring: SIMPARCH
Curated by Lia Alexopoulous
The artists for this exhibition horizontally bisected the Center’s Ruth Horwich Gallery with an enormous wooden basin, known as the skatebowl. Skateboarding has transformed and redefined the urban landscape while also considering the aesthetics and richness of this youth culture. The form of Free Basin recalls the abandoned swimming pools of Southern California, which has been a traditional terrain for skateboarding. The artists found the basin a particularly poetic form with important resonance in traditional architecture. It is also a form that gives skaters opportunities for challenging creative performances.
SIMPARCH includes Matt Lynch and Steve Badgett. Founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1996, SIMPARCH’s primary interest is in exploring how we relate to the commonplace structures of everyday life. For more information visit simparch.
Other participating cultural producers included Chris Vorhees and Hamza Walker.
This exhibition traveled to the Wexner Center for the Arts (2002), Documenta XI (2002), and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2004).