until Sunday February 02 2025

Pulitzer Arts Foundation
3716 Washington Boulevard
MO 63108 St. Louis
United States

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American artist Scott Burton (1939–1989) made what he described as “sculpture in love with furniture.” Highlighting the breadth of Burton’s innovative practice as a sculptor, performance artist, and public artist, this will be the most comprehensive exhibition in the United States since his untimely death of AIDS-related complications in 1989. The presentation will include over forty artworks that focus on the artist’s use of furniture and performance to express identity and explore social dynamics, such as intimacy, distance, collectivity, and isolation. In addition to the artist’s sculptures, photographs, drawings, and documentation of performances, it will also shed light on Burton’s important contributions to conceptual art, public art, and queer art, as well as his roles as a curator and art critic.

This exhibition is organized by Jess Wilcox, Independent Curator, with Heather Alexis Smith, Assistant Curator, Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

Installation view of Scott Burton: Shape Shift at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation © 2024 Estate of Scott Burton/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), Photograph by Alise O'Brien Photography, © Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Alise O’Brien Photography