KAWS ART EXHIBITION
The High Museum of Art
will premiere a major multi-site exhibition of work by KAWS opening to
the public on February 18, 2012. The exhibition features a
22-foot-high, site-specific mural painted in the Margaretta Taylor Lobby
of the High’s Wieland Pavilion and a 24-foot-long triptych hung in the
Museum’s Robinson Atrium. In addition, the exhibition will include three
new major works including a grid of 27 round paintings, a group of
KAWS toys, drawings, and a collaborative project with British
Photographer David Sims.
The exhibition will also include KAWS’s monumental sculpture Companion
(2010), which was installed on November 18, 2011 on the Museum’s
piazza, in advance of the main exhibition opening in February.
KAWS: DOWN TIME has been organized exclusively for the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, by the High’s Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Michael Rooks. The exhibition will coincide with a public program featuring KAWS and Michael Rooks in conversation at the Alliance Theatre. The program starts at 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 16, as part of the High’s Conversations with Contemporary Artists lecture series.
KAWS: DOWN TIME has been organized exclusively for the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, by the High’s Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Michael Rooks. The exhibition will coincide with a public program featuring KAWS and Michael Rooks in conversation at the Alliance Theatre. The program starts at 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 16, as part of the High’s Conversations with Contemporary Artists lecture series.
This work led to direct collaborations with the commercial photographers and designers who produced the original ads and has been featured in numerous publications. It was exhibited most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, as part of the groundbreaking exhibition Art In The Streets. KAWS studied at The School of Visual Arts in New York City and currently lives in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited internationally in Japan, France, Spain and The Netherlands. KAWS is represented by Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, and Galerie Perrotin, Paris.
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