Tonight : Reception for Chinati Artist-In-Residence

Alex Schweder makes art about architecture: the way we inhabit it, the way it inhabits us, and the sometimes porous border between the two. He refers to his work as "performance architecture" in order to emphasize the bodily nature of his objects and installations. Schweder was trained as an architect; he moved into art to better explore his interest in bodies in space and the space in bodies. In the artist's own words, his work investigates "the permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. We construct our built world; it thereafter constructs us as occupying subjects."

Schweder's exhibitions at the Ice Plant and the Locker Plant were designed specifically for those locales, and both invite or allow for the active participation of visitors/viewers. Both exhibitions will be open Thursday evening from 7:00 to 9:00 PM. The Ice Plant will be open again Saturday night from 8:00 to 9:00 PM (and again on consecutive Saturday evenings—October 17, 24, and 31). The Locker Plant will be open this Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

For more information, please contact: The Chinati Foundation