Buffalo, NY – Today the Albright-Knox Art Gallery announced it will open an exhibition by artist Anthony McCall (American, born England, 1946) in August 2019. Anthony McCall: Dark Rooms, Solid Light will be McCall’s first solo museum exhibition in North America and will occupy the museum’s entire 1905 Building.

The exhibition will include five enormous, immersive “solid light” installations, created by a combination of projected light and a thin mist, which viewers are invited to move around and through in order to experience the sculptural properties of light firsthand. Evolving and changing over time, the installations encourage an extended, interactive experience. These works are connected to the artist’s legendary 1973 film Line Describing a Cone. The exhibition will also include several performance films, as well as examples of the artist’s works on paper from 1970 to the present, including drawings, photographs, and installation documentation.

“We are thrilled to organize Anthony McCall’s first solo museum exhibition in North America,” said Albright-Knox Chief Curator Cathleen Chaffee. “This show continues the museum’s remarkable legacy of working with living artists at the forefront of their fields, and we are delighted to share McCall’s striking and engaging installations and other projects with the people of Buffalo and Western New York.” 

McCall lives and works in Manhattan. The historical importance of his work, which occupies a space between sculpture, cinema, and drawing, has been recognized in such exhibitions as Into the Light: the Projected Image in American Art 1964–77, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2001–02); X-Screen: Film Installations and Actions of the 1960s and 1970s, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria (2003–04); The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zürich (2006); Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2006–07); and On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010–11). In the past year he has mounted solo exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield, England; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn; and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

Equipment and technical support provided in part by Advantage TI.

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