Amy Yoes: Hot Corners
to Open at MASS MoCA, May 2022
On July 10, 2021, Salem Art Works will host a site-specific installation that will be part of Amy Yoes: Hot Corners, an exhibition taking place at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. An integral part of the installation’s development—Fire Project #10—will take place at the conclusion of the Taste of SAW event at 9pm.
In the case of inclement weather, the rain date will be August 14, 2021.
Yoes’ Fire Project #10 is the latest iteration of her methodical staging of the compressed life cycle of a sculpture, from its creation to its destruction. Using discarded materials found on the streets, the sculptures are built through a weeks-long participatory process. Ignited before an informal audience gathering, the sculpture unfolds itself as layers of variable combustibility burn away and purposefully destabilized elements crumple in a theatrical sequence. Members of Yoes’ studio and the MASS MoCA fabrication team will be on site constructing the sculpture June 28- July 9.
Viewing of both Fire Project #10 and the building process are free and open to the public
About Amy Yoes
Amy Yoes was born in 1959 and grew up in Houston, Texas. She has lived in Chicago, San Francisco, New York City and, since 2017, in Narrowsburg, NY. Her videos have been seen in many venues, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.; and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. She has held residences at the Maison Dora Maar, Ménerbes, France; AIR, Krems, Austria; McDowell, Peterborough, NH; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; and The British School at Rome, Italy. She has been a visiting artist at many institutions, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Las Vegas Nevada, Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Siena Art Institute. Other projects include a site-specific animation installation at the Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an animation for a screening at the National Gallery of Art.
About MASS MoCA
MASS MoCA is one of the world’s liveliest centers for making and enjoying today’s most evocative art. With vast galleries and a stunning collection of indoor and outdoor performing arts venues, MASS MoCA is able to embrace all forms of art: music, sculpture, dance, film, painting, photography, theater, and new, boundary-crossing works of art that defy easy classification. Much of the work we show in our light-filled spaces, on our technically sophisticated stages, and within our lovely network of late 19th-century courtyards is made here during extended fabrication and rehearsal residencies that bring hundreds of the world’s most brilliant and innovative artists to North Adams all year round. For more information about MASS MoCA, visit massmoca.org.
Programming at MASS MoCA is made possible in part by the Barr Foundation, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and Mass Cultural Council.