Scheduled for Thursday, July 11, 2024, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

Guests will join Rachel Delphia and Alyssa Velazquez from CMoA curatorial team for a tour of Marie Watt: Land Stitches Water Sky (on view through September 22, 2024 - Forum Gallery) and Beate Kuhn: Turn (on view from June 29 through December 1, 2024 - Scaife Gallery).

Beate Kuhn (1927-2015) was a German sculptor known for her rhythmic ensembles of deconstructed, ceramic forms such as discs, cylinders, cones, and spheres. She also channeled beautiful and sublime aspects of nature with formal allusions to succulents, seeds, mushrooms, and invertebrate animals. Like the atonal music she favored, Kuhn's sculptures were both alluring and disquieting. For six decades she worked in the village of Düdelsheim, outside Frankfurt, in commune with fellow artists. Admired in Germany, her work is little known in the United States. This exhibition introduces American audiences to Kuhn's visually arresting creations in clay.

Marie Watt: Land Stitches Water Sky explores steel and glass-materials deeply tied to Western Pennsylvania's industrial history-from Watt's Indigenous perspective as a citizen of the Seneca Nation with German-Scot ancestry. This exhibition presents sculptures informed by the artist's community collaboration and invites visitors to consider the layered histories and personal memories of familiar materials.

Beate Kuhn: Turn is organized by Rachel Delphia, Alan G. and Jane A. Lehman Curator of Decorative Arts and Design. Marie Watt: Land Stitches Water Sky is organized by Liz Park, Richard Armstrong Curator of Contemporary Art and Alyssa Velazquez, assistant curator.

Images: Beate Kuhn, Two-part Composition, 1970, Carnegie Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the friends and family of Edith H. Fisher in honor of her 90th birthday, © Beate Kuhn

Marie Watt, Quilt (Legendary), 2024, in Forum 88: Marie Watt: LAND STITCHES WATER SKY. © Marie Watt; photo: Zachary Riggleman / Carnegie Museum of Art