October 28, 2010 - January 1, 2012

Museum Hours:  Thursday - Sunday 11:00am - 6:00pm (Fridays until 8pm)

Juan Downey:  The Invisible Architect

GUEST CURATOR:  Valerie Smith

Organized in collaboration with the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect is the first U.S. survey of this pioneering video artist and brings together more than one hundred works, including drawings, artist's notebooks, paintings, video and photographic installations spanning from early experimental work with art and technology to the groundbreaking video installations from the 1970s through the 1990s.

Formally trained as an architect, Downey began experimenting with different art forms when he moved from Paris to Washington DC in 1965. He developed a strong interest in the concept of invisible energy and shifted from object-based artistic practice to an experiential approach, seeking to combine interactive performance with sculpture and video, a transition the exhibition explores. Downey quickly established himself as an avant-garde pioneer of video and technology art and for the next two decades began to explore invisible forms of energy and communication, describing himself as a "cultural communicant" and an "activating anthropologist."

Organized by the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

The exhibition was on view May 6 - July 11, 2011 at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA and is currently on view at Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, until December 31, 2011.

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The Bronx Museum of the Arts
South Building, Lower Gallery 
1040 Grand Concourse (at 165th Street)
Bronx, NY  10456

Directions:  By train:  D or B trains to the 167th Street/Grand Concourse station.  Exit at rear of station, walk south along Grand Concourse two blocks.  By Bus:  Bx1 or Bx2 to 165th Street and Grand Concourse.

ADMISSION:  $5 Adults; $3 Students and Seniors; Free on Fridays; Free for Members and Children (under 12 years of age).