Sara Vanderbeek: Pop-up Show
August 27 - November 21,2021
From the artist: "Artist Sara Vanderbeek announces Pop-up Show, a mobile exhibition project featuring her new artworks installed within and surrounding the pop-up camper in which she and her family lived and traveled during 2020 and 2021. Pop-up Show opens with a preview at Bentonville Film Festival at CACHE at 214 in Springdale, Arkansas, on Saturday, August 7, 2021 from 12:00pm–5:00pm; and Sunday, August 8, 2021 from 4:00–6:00pm. In Austin, Pop-up Show premieres August 27–29, 2021 at McKinney Falls State Park, Cedar Loop, Site 53 with an opening reception on Friday, August 27, 6:00–8:00pm. Visitors will have day access to relaxing swimming holes, hiking, and wildlife. Park entrance reservations are required; see below for more information. Later this fall, Pop-up Show will exhibit at Austin’s Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) on Saturday, November 20 and Sunday, November 21 from 11:00 am–6:00pm during the Austin Studio Tour. Sheltered during the pandemic, Vanderbeek drove thousands of miles with her partner and child and experienced an expansive but distant view of the country. The camper acted as an escape, safety net, home, office, classroom, and studio for them as America faced an increasingly polarized political landscape of protests, climate crises, and a historic racial justice movement. Now the camper is open to others as a gallery. Vanderbeek’s expressive figurative fabric paintings will cover most of the camper’s interior surfaces and will hang outside, blowing in the breeze like laundry on clotheslines. The paintings’ bright colors reference nature but also signal alarm and dissent. Visceral depictions of family, domesticity, and travel are contrasted with portraits of depression, forests burning in California, and the endless media feed of tumultuous political news. The Pop-up Show tour is an active and evolving exhibition project that will continue to pop-up in the woods, galleries, institutional grounds, and other locations connected to the continental interstate highway. For the latest tour details, contact information, and reservations (required for McKinney Falls), visit: www.saravanderbeek.com/popupshow. The camper is not ADA accessible, however most works are visible and able to be experienced from the exterior."
On View: August 27, 2021 | 6-8 pm
At McKinney Falls State Park, Cedar Loop, Site 53
On View: November 20, 2021 | 11-6 pm
At the Museum of Human Achievement
