SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art is presenting the Main Gallery group exhibition, Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art.

Object[ed] is the the amalgamation of six regional and international artists that employ sculpture to illuminate the realms of objectivity and subjectivity. Reframed with linguistics derived from the orthodox medium of structure, this show curated by Rebecca Maksym dismantles and redefines traditional notions of three-dimensionality.

Caught between elements of architecture and landscape while simultaneously defying architecture and landscape, this exhibition examines sculptures symbolic exclusion. Form, space, and process are reimaged, redacting objectivity and subjectivity within the medium. Featured artist, Leeza Meksin will be present prior to the reception for a walkthrough of her work in the exhibition. Creating site-specific work for UMOCA's interior and exterior, she will discuss the complexities of donning architecture in drag.

Through defying traditional modes of sculpture, Object[ed] as a whole expands notions of objecthood, through altering materials and practices. Illuminating both realms of painting and sculpture, art history is viewed anew with altering material, space, and process. Focusing on traditional structures of culture, history, and form this exhibition provides a new perspective for interpreting the conceptual and political arena. Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art is an exhibition of dualities, between production and consumption, objectivity and subjectivity, the exterior and interior. Orthodox systems of structure are both celebrated and deconstructed.

Participating artists: Olga Balema, Caitlin Cherry, Lizze Määttälä, Leeza Meksin, Tove Storch, Gili Tal