ICPA at Colgate University, Department of Art/History present The Shapes Project: Shapes for Hamilton

(Hamilton, NY) Colgate University’s Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts and the Department of Art and Art History announces Shapes for Hamilton, which kicks off with a talk by Allan McCollum, The 2010 Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, February 3, 4:30 pm, Golden Auditorium, Little Hall

Over the past several years, the artist Allan McCollum has developed The Shapes Project, a system that can produce 31,000,000,000 unique two-dimensional “shapes,” more than enough to create an individual shape for every person on the planet.

With Shapes for Hamilton the artist will create a unique shape for each inhabitant of the geo-political entity of the Town of Hamilton, New York — an extraordinary community-wide collaboration between the artist, the townspeople and the students, staff and faculty of Colgate University. At the conclusion of the project – which will include an exhibition of the complete set of the nearly 6000 shapes at Colgate’s Clifford Gallery — each resident will be invited, without obligation, to collect their own shape provided free of charge and signed by the artist.

Allan McCollum was born in California in 1944, and lives and works in New York. He has spent over thirty years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production, most recently collaborating with home-based businesses in Shapes from Maine (2009) at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York. McCollum has had over 100 solo exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Lille, France (1998); the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (1995-96); the Serpentine Gallery, London (1990); the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden (1990); IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain (1990); Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (1989), and Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (1988). He has produced public art projects in the United States and Europe, and his works are held in nearly seventy major art museum collections worldwide

To find out more about Shapes for Hamilton, Allan McCollum and the ICPA at Colgate University please contact akowalski@colgate.edu or visit http://artsinstitute.colgate.edu/. All events are free and open to the public.

Related Events

March 8 – 31, The Shapes Project: Shapes for Hamilton, an exhibition at the Clifford Gallery, Little Hall, Colgate University, opening reception March 10, 4:30 pm. http://cliffordgallery.org

April 3 – 4 and 10 – 11, Shapes Distribution Events in the Villages of Hamilton, Poolville and Earlville, exact times and locations to be determined.

The Clifford Gallery is free and open to the public from 10:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on weekdays, and from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. on weekends.

Support for Shapes for Hamilton comes from The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, the ICPA at Colgate University and the Department of Art and Art History.

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ICPA at Colgate University, Department of Art/History present The Shapes Project: Shapes for Hamilton

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