Kim Schoenstadt Art Opening: Enter Slowly, The Legacy of an Idea

1111 S Arroyo Pkwy, Pasadena, CA 91105, Pasadena CA

23 September, 2021

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Kim Schoenstadt: Enter Slowly, The Legacy of an Idea on view at the Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery Exhibition dates: September 23 through February 27, 2022 In 1937 a naked Le Corbusier infamously painted eight ‘racy’ murals over the walls of Eileen Gray’s groundbreaking E-1027 house, the modernist villa that she designed on the French Riviera. In 2019 Kim Schoenstadt took this violation as a point of inspiration for her large-scale, multimedia exhibition at ArtCenter Mullin Gallery. Enter Slowly, The Legacy of an Idea is an artistic exploration into the sordid stories, rewritten histories, and exploits that befell Eileen Gray’s career and her iconic E-1027 house in the south of France. The exhibition provides a means to not only explore the legacy of Gray and E-1027, but also to examine issues underrepresented artists face when breaking into the field in which they are not typically represented. Conceived specifically for the Mullin Gallery, Schoenstadt’s installation consists of sculptures, wall drawings, stitched canvases, and collages inspired by the original and the subsequently misinterpreted architecture and color-block motifs of Gray’s interior. Integral to the exhibition is an assemblage of ephemera—images and texts regarding the history of E-1027—and a series of public programming. An illustrated catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition, representing the first monograph of Schoenstadt’s work. ArtCenter Exhibitions announces the exhibition, Kim Schoenstadt: Enter Slowly, The Legacy of an Idea, on view September 23 through February 27, 2022 at the Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery at ArtCenter College of Design. Featuring sculptures, paintings, drawings, and ephemera, the exhibition features new works inspired by Schoenstadt’s research of E-1027, an iconic house by 20th century architect, designer and artist Eileen Gray. This site-specific installation reveals the most recent developments in Schoenstadt’s prolonged investigations of architecture, time and the shifting landscape. to learn more, check it out here: