The Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for 2026 – 2027 has been awarded to Ebonie Pollock, a PhD Candidate in the History of Art & Architecture Department at Harvard University, for her dissertation “‘Gold Would Not Be Too Precious a Medium’: Material and Memory in Black American Women’s Modern Figurative Sculpture.” The award carries a stipend of $25,000.
Pollock’s dissertation probes the intersection of Black women sculptors’ material conditions, strategies, and absences, with a view towards developing new frameworks to discuss the alternative, unrealized, and non-extant material of Black women’s figurative sculpture of the late nineteenth through early twentieth centuries. To learn more about this project, visit the link in our bio.
Image 1: Ebonie Pollock headshot
Image 2: Andrew Herman, Augusta Savage with her sculpture “Realization,” ca. 1938, Photographic print, Archives of American Art
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The Dedalus Foundation is delighted to share the exhibition “Made in Tension,” on view at the Soloviev Foundation Gallery in New York until December 2026. Curated by Angela Brown (2023 Dissertation Fellow), the exhibition unites historic and contemporary works by a group of international artists with a focus on textiles and fiber art.
“Made in Tension” includes works by Olga de Amaral; Patricia Ayres; Kevin Beasley; Diedrick Brackens; weavers from the South American coast, including Chimú weavers; Ximena Garrido-Lecca; Porfirio Gutiérrez; Elana Herzog; Ade Kassim; fiber artists of the Kuba Kingdom; Henri Matisse; Henry Moore; Senga Nengudi; Raúl de Nieves; Nengi Omuku; Elle Pérez; Cristina Flores Pescorán; Pablo Picasso; Ancient Roman marble carvers; Analia Saban; Sarah Sze; Lenore Tawney; Yoruba beadworkers and woodcarvers.
The Soloviev Foundation Gallery, located at 9 West 57th Street, is open by appointment. Click the link in our bio to learn more and plan your visit.
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We are thrilled to announce that Alina Tenser (2012 MFA Fellow) has been selected as a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts.
Alina Tenser (@alina_tenser ) is a Ukrainian-born artist and educator whose work across sculpture, video, and performance explores the dialogue between play, constraint, and language, often through forms that invite tactile or imagined interaction. To learn more about Tenser’s practice and explore her recent exhibitions, visit the link in our bio.
Photograph by Willy Somma @willysomma
This is the final week to see “Robert Motherwell: Surface/Subject,” which closes Saturday, March 28th, at @olneygleason . The exhibition includes a selection of paintings that explore Motherwell’s distinctive approach to developing his compositions and his relationship to the color black.
To learn more and plan your visit to see “Surface/Subject,” visit the link in our bio.
Image: View of Robert Motherwell: Surface/Subject, at Olney Gleason, New York, 2026.
Public Program 📆 On Robert Motherwell: Matthew Holman, Megan Kincaid, and Tony Lewis
Join us for a two-part public program hosted by art critic and writer Matthew Holman (@matthewjholman ). In the first half of the conversation, art historian and curator Megan Kincaid offers a close reading of Motherwell’s practice, drawing on her research into modernist abstraction and the transnational currents that shaped mid-century American art.
In the second half, artist Tony Lewis (@_tony_lewis_ ) joins Holman to discuss his own work in relation to Motherwell’s, which similarly engages questions of gesture and surface through processes of mark-making and concealment. Lewis’ first solo exhibition opens at Olney Gleason in May 2026.
Saturday, March 14, 2026 – 12–2pm
297 Tenth Avenue, New York
Free admission
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Hosted in collaboration with The Dedalus Foundation (@dedalusfoundation )
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Adrian Sudhalter (2012 Senior Fellow) is the editor of “Carl Grossberg: New Forms in the World of Technology,” a new book from the University of Chicago Press on Carl Grossberg, whose paintings of industrial settings and objects have been long associated with the German New Objectivity Movement of the 1920s. Rich with illustrations, this book focuses on the reception of Grossberg’s work during his lifetime, relying on historical photographs, documents, and publications to situate his practice within a developing German landscape in the period between the wars. Visit the link in our bio to learn more.
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TONIGHT: Join us at Olney Gleason (@olneygleason ) from 6-8 PM for the opening of Robert Motherwell: Surface/Subject. The exhibition highlights Motherwell’s distinctive approach to developing his compositions through a combination of bold gestures, varied surface textures, and overlapping planes of color. Visit the link in our bio to learn more.
Robert Motherwell: Surface/Subject
Opening Thursday, February 19, 6-8pm
February 19 – March 28, 2026
297 Tenth Avenue, New York
Image: Untitled (Elegy), 1975, acrylic and charcoal on canvas mounted on Masonite, 36 x 71 3/4 in. (91.4 x 182.2 cm)
We are excited to share the list of Dedalus Foundation Fellows and Awardees participating in the CAA 114th Annual Conference, which takes place this week at the Hilton Chicago. Swipe through or visit the conference schedule at the link in our bio for more details.
Nikki Moore has been awarded The Dedalus Foundation’s 2026 Senior Fellowship for her forthcoming book “Experts in the Fields: Art, Architecture, and Aesthetics at the Mexican Origins of the Global Green Revolution, 1924-1972.”
Interrogating art and architecture’s role in the soft war policies of the United States in Mexico (1924-1972), Moore’s project argues that the same aesthetic lens that fostered the International Style of modern architecture reshaped the ancestral seeds and agricultural landscapes at the Mexican origins of the global Green Revolution. To learn more about Moore and her forthcoming book, visit the link in our bio.
Image 1: Nikki Moore headshot
Image 2: Perkins + Will, Model for Plan Chapingo, 1963. Source: Rockefeller Archive Center, FA003 100-1000 Photographs, box 96, Folder 1888.
Art historian Greg Gilbert will deliver a presentation on Robert Motherwell at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa tomorrow, February 12th, at 6 PM. Gilbert is a professor and scholar of Abstract Expressionism who has made significant contributions to research on Robert Motherwell. This talk is free and open to the public as the latest program in the Thursdays at the Figge series.
For more details on the event, visit the link in our bio.
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We hope to see you tomorrow, February 7th, at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center for a conversation around “Singing in Unison, Part 13: Homage to Meyer Shapiro,” the latest in a series of multi-artist exhibitions organized by The Brooklyn Rail. Phong Bui, the curator of the exhibition, will discuss Schapiro’s work, legacy, and influence on the included artists with art historian Alexander Nagel. Robert Motherwell, who moved to New York in 1940 to study under Shapiro, is represented by his 1951 drawing “Dancing Figure” (pictured).
Phong H. Bui (@phong.h.bui ) is the Co-Founder, Publisher, and Artistic Director of The Brooklyn Rail (@brooklynrail ). Alexander Nagel (@alexandernagel ) is the Craig Hugh Smyth Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.
This recorded event is free and open to the public. Tickets can be reserved at the link in our bio.
The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center @brattmuseum
10 Vernon Street
Brattleboro, Vermont
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Installation photo by Stephen Petegorsky
