Eric Guy Booker

Saif Azzuz’s “weych-pues / tàkhòne (where the rivers meet)”, opens Sunday, May 17th at Storm King Art Center! Presented as part of Storm King’s “Outlooks” series, the artist’s first large-scale outdoor public art commission takes the form of a giant sturgeon made of steel, aluminum, and salvaged car parts from the Hudson Valley, together with natural materials from the San Francisco Bay Area. Read more about the work through the link in our bio and see the installation in person through November 9th. “Saif Azzuz: weych-pues / tàkhòne (where the rivers meet)” Storm King Art Center 17 May – 9 November 2026 — “Outlooks: Saif Azzuz” is organized by Eric Booker @ericguybooker , Associate Curator. Installation photos by Jeffrey Jenkins. Progress and fabrication photos by David Schulze.

ON VIEW through May 15th 𝘛𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 ___ 2026 Design History and Practice BFA Thesis Capstone at Salma Sarriedine @salma__nyc Join us this Saturday, May 9th at 2pm for a gallery talk between the graduating seniors and Eric Booker, Associate Curator at Storm King Art Center @ericguybooker exhibition documentation by the best: 📸 @who_shot_your_art_tho

On the last weekend of her exhibition @stormkingartcenter , Dionne Lee and I had a conversation about her Outlooks installation “between the falling leaf and the surface of rock.” Following the talk, Lee screened a new two-channel video: a non-linear, emotionally-charged document of the time she spent making this work in the landscape. Flags blow in the wind, the sound of a chainsaw blares, a grasshopper moves across the surface of Lee’s cyanotypes, and a Dremel leaves a permanent mark in stone…visual alchemy ✨. It was a beautiful coda to Lee’s exhibition, which created an unmediated image of nature through cyanotype and stone. 🪨💙 “Blue Hour with Dionne Lee” was organized by my colleagues in Learning & Engagement @mitchyos & @walshoh . 📸 by Jess Glass.

Filled with so much love, joy, and pride for this place we call home, the Studio Museum in Harlem. We know it never went away, it’s been alive in the staff, artists, and collaborators who gathered last night—the community that has always made this place what it is. Now that community has a brand new house, a shining symbol of Black resilience and possibility on 125th Street. All the flowers for @thelmagolden and my entire @studiomuseum fam for making this incredible dream a reality. We’ve arrived. Get yourself to Harlem on November 15th for the opening! 🖤🖤🖤

My time at the Studio Museum (first as a lil intern and later as an exhibition coordinator and curator) forever shaped me. Studio was a compass in the art world—the staff and artists taught me how to move through this work with a great sense of care, responsibility, and resourcefulness. The many smart, fabulous, and fierce women pictured here (along with T Lax!) continue to envision a certain set of possibilities out in the world. At its beating heart is Thelma Golden, who has built what can only be described as THE museum in which to dream, become, and thrive.🌟 Those in this photo, and the many working beyond it, continue to make the word “museum” mean something more each and every day. It’s an honor to be included. Here’s to when @studiomuseum swings those doors back open in November. 💥🖤💥 Read “How the Studio Museum in Harlem Reshaped the Art World” in the September issue of @harpersbazaarus : harpersbazaar.com/studio-museum-september-2025 Photography: @johncedmonds 💫💫💫 Styling: @nicholasgrasa 🤌🏼 Story: @salamishah 💞 Hair: @feliciaburrowshair 💁🏻‍♂️ Makeup: @whittanyrobinson 💋 Manicure: @mayumiabuku 💅🏽

@stormkingartcenter reopened today, and with it @kevinmbeasley ‘s magnificent ode to the landscape, “PROSCENIUM| Rebirth/Growth: The Watch/Harvest/Dormancy: On Reflection” (2024–25) Measuring 100ft long by 11ft tall, Beasley’s work inaugurates a new area of the site, Tippet’s Field. The installation is a culmination of sorts for the artist, who has engaged with these materials and forms, and the histories and lived experiences of the American landscape, for many years. I can’t wait to see how this work changes us and our experience of the landscape, Kevin. Thank you! 🍁/🌾/🌱/🪾 Four triptychs, each formed from three cast-resin slabs, represent the four seasons. Beasley renders each scene with gestural marks in resin, Sharpie, and various casting techniques. Densely layered clothing, plants, farm tools, and seeds form the earth and sky, which meet along a shifting horizon line. On the reverse, a varied topography reveals the artist’s unique method of layering resin and an assortment of collected materials inside the frame to create a three-dimensional composition. The resulting work contains layers of material memory, evoking strata of land. The installation’s curved form recalls that of a proscenium, the space in front of a theater curtain where performance and audience meet. To my co-curator & all-around brilliant colleague @nora__lawrence , it continues to be a joy to do this work with you. Thanks to Adela Goldsmith, Assistant Curator, and so many other dedicated colleagues. Big thanks to @jgilbertdavis @d_m_ojeda and the entire Beasley team, and @caseykaplangallery and @regenprojects Photos by Jeffrey Jenkins & Jason Lowrie/BFA.com

“Outlooks: Dionne Lee” opens @stormkingartcenter on May 7th. When an artist imagines an entirely new way of making (and expands the tradition of landscape photography & land art in the process), it’s nothing short of magic. Thank you @itsdionne , it continues to be a joy to think alongside you. And of course thanks to my colleague Adela Goldsmith, Assistant Curator, who has been there every step of the way. 💙🪨💙 Dionne Lee, “between the falling leaf and the surface of rock,” 2025 At Storm King, Lee uses one of the earliest photographic technologies, the cyanotype process, to create an automatic record of nature. She coats rocks sourced from Storm King’s landscape with a light-sensitive solution, which, when exposed to sunlight, turn shades of deep blue. Lee exposes her sculptures over the course of a single day, from dawn to dusk, then rinses them to develop the image, creating an index of gradual changes in light and atmosphere. The artist then etches marks into the surfaces, ranging from abstract drawings to renderings of divining rods, nearby plant life, and the four cardinal directions. According to Lee, “Engaging in analog processes mirrors the nature of the survival skills I’ve studied. . . . They are physical, primal, and as instinctual as the act of collaging or the urge to capture a moment in time with a camera.” Outlooks offers emerging and mid-career artists the opportunity to present a temporary large-scale project in the landscape. Photos by Jeffrey Jenkins, Adela Goldsmith, Saif Al-Sobaihi, and Jason Lowry/BFA.com

Scenes from a ritual, a gathering of six women at dusk, a structural dialogue between body, sculpture, and landscape. Last night @stormkingartcenter was true magic! 🔶 Congrats to @anniebparson and @arleneshechet on their first collaboration (hopefully there will be many more!). Staged on the occasion of Arlene’s wondrous exhibition “Girl Group.” Come see it tonight at 6:45pm and again on Sept. 27 & 28. 🟦 Dancers: Cecily Campbell, Elizabeth DeMent, Natalie Green, Kashia Kancey, Brooke Ashley Rucker, Jin Ju Song-Begin Costumes: Arlene Shechet Sound Design: Tei Blow Produced by @stormkingartcenter x @bigdancetheater Shout out to Hannah des Cognets, @mitchyos , @nora__lawrence

“Arlene Shechet: Girl Group” has finally arrived @stormkingartcenter ! 💥Six monumental sculptures💥 ranging from 10 to 20ft high, and over 25ft long, now spread across our landscape, along with a host of brilliantly hued sculptures indoors. Together, they reveal Arlene’s relentless pursuit to make it new—unlocking the expressive possibilities of whatever material, process, or tradition she puts her mind to. 👏🏼💪🏼🙌🏼 Monumental yet ethereal, vibrant but shifting, Arlene’s sculptures resist static viewing, instead inviting a “body to body experience,” in the words of the artist. These photos only hint at some of the many nuances and unexpected moments that Arlene’s sculptures reveal over time. The exhibition runs through November 10th. Come experience it yourself! 🌱 All the 💐💐💐 go to @arleneshechet for this tremendous body of work, and gratitude to @nora__lawrence who brought me on to co-curate this exhibition. Celebrating the team at Storm King who makes such a feat possible: @frickin_rats @hanna.washburn @gguddemi , the incredible team at Studio Shechet, and so many more. 🩵

Una semana inolvidable en El Salvador (Part 2): Filled with the generosity of Salvadorian artists, curators, and institutions, and a deeper understanding of a place marked by turbulent change and constant renewal inherent to the land and its people. Many friends made along the way. Gracias por todo y más @yescontemporary . Ojalá volver pronto! 1) Lake Coatepeque 😵 2) “Atuendos del Antropoceno” by Veronica Vides 🙌🏼 3) Mantenerse Humano collective @museoformaoficial 💫 4) Antonio Bonilla’s 2011 mural “200 Años de Lucha por la Emancipación en El Salvador” @muna_sv ✊🏼 5) More Lake Coatepeque ☀️6) Y.ES fam 💚 7) “El inframundo” 2019 by Beatriz Cortez @museo_marte 👀 8) Lunch at Xolo 🤤 9) Detail of a table cloth scrubbed with cleaning chemicals by Studio Lenca “Esta fregado” 2022 💫10) Volcanoes at sunset 🌹

Una semana inolvidable en El Salvador (Part 1): Filled with the generosity of Salvadorian artists, curators, and institutions, and a deeper understanding of a place marked by turbulent change and constant renewal inherent to the land and its people. Many friends made along the way. Gracias por todo y más @yescontemporary . Ojalá volver pronto! 1) Visiting Lake Ilopango @beatrizcortezflores 🌋 2) Spent the day with the luminous Carlos Henríquez Consalvi ✨ 3) A visit to the artist-run space @lafabrica.sv 🌱4) @simonvegataller studio ⚡️ 5) Y.ES fam 💛 6) “Recurring Dream of the Midwest Cowboy” by Erick Antonio Benitez 🔥 7) El Rosario Church designed by Rubén Martínez Bulnes in 1971 🔸 8) Muriel Hasbun with Mario Marti’s “Pepe El Candidato @laberintoprojects 🙏🏼 9) “Perros (*Lucha de perros*)”1956 by Carlos Cañas @museo_marte 10) Zorroridrag Collective performance in “Subjetividades: Estrategias Identitarias” curated by @quiquelarraondo 💗

🗣️ New year, new announcement: “Arlene Shechet: Girl Group” opens May 4, 2024 @stormkingartcenter 💥 Honored to be working with the incomparable @arleneshechet as she takes on monumental sculpture, reinventing this tradition through her process-oriented, improvisational approach. Arlene’s sculptures resist static definition, eschewing differences between beauty and humor, industrial and handmade, and even front and back in favor of a more contradictory and vibrant reality. The first to pair her outdoor sculpture with her iconic indoor ceramics—the exhibition will debut six new large-scale commissions along with complementary indoor works in wood, steel, and ceramic. “Girl Group” responds to and expands upon the legacy and techniques of post-war and contemporary sculpture at Storm King through Shechet’s signature emphasis on process, color, and form. Grateful to my fierce curatorial collaborators @nora__lawrence & @frickin_rats 💜 📸Arlene Shechet in the fabrication shop with a new outdoor commission for Storm King Art Center. Photo by @david_schulze_studio