Socrates Sculpture Park: Online Celebration of Jeffrey Gibson's Monument Unveiling, 7/24

Jeffrey Gibson, Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House, 2020; Courtesy the Artist, Socrates Sculpture Park, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles. Image by Scott Lynch. [Image Description: This image depicts a three-tiered pre-columbian style pyramid in a park. It is covered with prints, each side and each tier have a different pattern of prints in pink, orange, yellow, red, turquoise and purple. On the left side of the pyramid, the text reads top to bottom “IN NUMBERS NUMBERS NUMBERS TOO TOO TOO BIG TO IGNORE.”]

Friday, July 24, from 6:30pm. On Instagram & Facebook 

This event is free! Please click here to  RSVP.

* The event has been re-scheduled for Friday, July 24 due to forecasted thunderstorms on Wednesday, July 22 and Thursday, July 23. Please Note: The Park closes to the public at 4pm the day of the event and remains closed during the event, it can only be viewed online via Instagram & Facebook.

About

Artist Jeffrey Gibson created Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House – a massive technicolor ziggurat honoring queer and Indigenous histories – for the Park’s MONUMENTS NOW exhibition. Tune in to Instagram or Facebook Live on Friday, July 24 at 6:30pm EST and celebrate the unveiling of this spectacular artwork with programming live-streamed from the Park! Also be sure to look for Gibson pictured with his project at Socrates in this week’s issue of The New Yorker magazine!

You can learn more about Socrates Sculpture Park’s exhibitions and events here.