Inside/Outside: Nancy Popp + Paul Druecke Opening Reception

Inside/Outside
Nancy Popp + Paul Druecke
July 26-October 26
Opening reception: Saturday, July 26, 5-8 pm
Free and open to the public.

The Inside/Outside series explores Lynden's evolution from private residence to public institution, and in this latest installment Nancy Popp (Los Angeles) and Paul Druecke (Milwaukee) use visual markers--lines, paths, stencils and engraved stones--to reimagine Lynden's history and spaces. In a new installment of Popp's Untitled (Street Performances) and in Garden Path, Druecke's site-specific intervention, they create a physical and conceptual dialogue between their pieces and practices. Both artists have extensive backgrounds with site-specific work, often addressing the history of a place and its cultural implications by illuminating its political and social context and exploring relationships among artist, audience, and institution. More on the exhibition here.

The opening of Inside/Outside: Nancy Popp + Paul Druecke on July 26 will be preceded by Conversations with Sculptures: Modern + Contemporary (3:30-5 pm), an expansive, interactive, ambulatory conversation hosted by dancer/choreographers Elizabeth Johnson and Cate Deicher and artists Nicholas Frank and Jenna Knapp. The Conversations series, which has shaped programming at Lynden in July as we prepare for a performance of Trisha Brown's "Early Works" on July 27, has been considering Brown's earliest dances in the context of Lynden's monumental sculptures--both products of the '60s and '70s. This final segment will bring the conversation up to the present by looking at the approaches Druecke and Popp take to sculpture and performance. Popp will be performing the latest iteration of Untitled (Street Performances) during the event.