eva rothschild : sightings

For the next iteration of the ongoing Sightings series of installations and architectural interventions by contemporary artists, the Nasher Sculpture Center has commissioned Eva Rothschild to create a site-specific sculpture for the museum’s entrance bay. Sightings: Eva Rothschild will be on view from October 20, 2012 through January 20, 2013. 

“Working in a wide array of media and exploring a diverse range of forms, Eva Rothschild has established an international reputation as one of the most significant sculptors of her generation. We’re thrilled that for her Sightings installation, the artist has engaged in the most thoughtful and ambitious manner with our admissions bay, so that visitors to the Nasher will immediately be surprised and delighted by her work from their first entrance into the museum, and as they move through its spaces,” notes Nasher Director Jeremy Strick. 

Born in Dublin in 1971, and currently based in London, Rothschild has received acclaim for works that reshape the legacy of minimalist and post-minimalist sculpture to offer evocative, open-ended experiences to the viewer. She made her first large-scale intervention in a museum space in 2009, when she created Cold Corners, Tate Britain’s Duveens Commission. Last year, she created Empire for the Public Art Fund, New York, placing a monumental, multidirectional archway of steel at one of the entrances to Central Park. For Sightings, Rothschild will make an intricate network of painted piping that similarly addresses the transitional space of the Nasher’s entrance bay by snaking up the walls, along the floor, and over and around admissions desks, stairs, and doorways. The installation will thoroughly inhabit the space, heightening and redefining our experience of the architecture.

Rothschild has exhibited widely at museums, including Hepworth Wakefield, Tate Britain, and Kunsthaus Basel. This summer, she received the Childrens Art Commission from the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Her work is included in the collections of the Tate Gallery, London, the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

Sightings: Eva Rothschild is generously sponsored by Christen and Derek Wilson, Cindy and Howard Rochofsky, The Goss-Michael Foundation, the Gene and Jerry Jones Family, CBRE and the Nasher Sculpture Center Avant-Garde Society.