Nasher Public

October 15, 2020 - December 31, 2025

Nasher Public is a public art initiative which aims to generate access to public art by Texas artists at the Nasher and throughout the greater Dallas community.

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White text on a black background. The logo image for Nasher Public.

Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields

February 1, 2025 - April 27, 2025

Over the past three decades, Haegue Yang (born 1971, Seoul, South Korea) has developed a prolific and hybrid body of work that folds quotidian objects and folk traditions into the canon of modern and contemporary sculpture-making. Informed by in-depth exploration into vernacular techniques and related customs and rituals, along with her continual movement through disparate cultures, Yang’s work is both homage to and critique of the modernist project toward singular Western domination. Lost Lands and Sunken Fields will occupy both levels of the museum’s galleries and garden, engaging a dialectic of contrasts: light and dark, aerial and grounded, buoyant and heavy, spare and dense, interior and exterior.  

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Installation image of sculptures from Yang's series Umbra Creatures by Rockhole, spotlit in a darkened space.

Manfred Pernice: Recent Acquisitions in Context

February 12, 2025 - April 13, 2025

Berlin-based artist Manfred Pernice (German, born 1963) is best known for his humbly constructed sculptures that defamiliarize the ho-hum features of 20th Century functionalist architecture. Working with simple materials like plywood and particleboard, as well as found objects like tires, newspaper clippings, and scrap metal, Pernice creates sculptural forms that quixotically combine aesthetic features of the complex systems that underpin our daily lives but often escape our notice, including trade, waste, and public infrastructure. In the artist’s words, “What one usually only perceives are contexts that make sense – never or seldom contexts of non-sense… In seeking intelligibility, these nonsensical situations usually go unnoticed, even though life is full of them.” Visualizing nonsense in an intimately handmade scale and form, Pernice translates the more all-encompassing contradictions of industry and history into objects that resist logic. This exhibition celebrates the recent gift to the Nasher of four key works by Pernice, presented in the context of works by John Storrs, Jasper Johns, and Ivan Puni from the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection. 

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Manfred Pernice's 2004 sculpture 'Plateau (Study)', a simple particleboard construction shaped like a slope-sided bench.
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Dallas, Texas 75201
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