FIRST LIGHT: A DECADE OF COLLECTING AT THE ICA – AUG 17, 2016 – JAN 16, 2017 PAUL AND CATHERINE BUTTENWIESER, FOTENE DEMOULAS, AND KIM AND JIM PALLOTTA GALLERIES

https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/first-light-decade-collecting-ica

First Light brings together new acquisitions and permanent-collection favorites in a series of interrelated and stand-alone exhibitions.

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Coinciding with the ten-year anniversary of ICA’s move to its iconic waterfront building, this exhibition will celebrate the museum’s first decade of collecting. Drawn entirely from ICA’s collection and featuring multiple thematic, artist-specific, and historical sections, the exhibition will bring together both new acquisitions and favorites from the permanent collection. Conceived as a series of interrelated and rotating stand-alone exhibitions, this presentation will highlight major singular works from the collection, such as a newly acquired monumental cut-paper silhouette tableau by Kara Walker, as well as the Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women, groupings of work by artists held in depth such as Louise Bourgeois and Nan Goldin, and thematic and art-historical groupings. A new multimedia web platform will be created to mark the occasion.

This exhibition is organized by ICA’s curatorial department under the leadership of Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jessica Hong, Curatorial Assistant.

First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA is sponsored by CHRISTIE’S

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional support is generously provided by Fiduciary Trust Company, Chuck and Kate Brizius, Katie and Paul Buttenwieser, Karen and Brian Conway, the Robert E. Davoli and Eileen L. McDonagh Charitable Foundation, Jean-François and Nathalie Ducrest, Cynthia and John Reed, and Charles and Fran Rodgers.