Nasher Public

October 15, 2020 - December 31, 2025 10/15/2020 12:00 AM 12/31/2025 12:00 AM

Nasher Public is a public art initiative which aims to generate access to public art by Texas artists at the Nasher and throughout the greater Dallas community.

Inspired by the success of the summer 2020 series Nasher Windows, which safely presented art to the public in the Nasher Sculpture Center’s vestibule while the museum was closed due to the pandemic, Nasher Public launched with a series of monthly exhibitions, each presenting work by emerging and established artists in a newly constituted gallery space directly accessible from the Nasher’s entrance foyer. The Public Gallery is open to the public free of charge during the museum and viewable through the windows during off hours.

Currently On View

Nasher Public and The Loop Dallas: Beverly Pepper

on the Hi Line Connector Trail

The Nasher Sculpture Center and The Loop Dallas present the first installment of a public art partnership that brings Nasher Public to the city's expanded walk and bike trails, beginning with Dallas Pyramid (1971) by Beverly Pepper. The angular steel sculpture will be on view through the spring of 2026 on the Hi Line Connector at the intersection of Hi Line Drive and Slocum Street. Learn More

Nasher Public: Tom Orr

at Nasher Sculpture Center

In the Nasher's Public Gallery, Dallas-based artist Tom Orr will present Atlas,2025, a new installation engaging with optical phenomena that shift and change through movement. Continuing his formal exploration of the moiré pattern - a seemingly animated visual effect that is created in the brain when a person looks at two overlapping patterns - Orr's complex large-scale sculpture appears to gently wave or writhe as the viewer moves around its central rotunda... Learn More

Nasher Public and Katy Trail Art: Eddie Martinez

at Katy Trail, Thomsen Overlook

Two lively painted bronze sculptures by Eddie Martinez are on view on the Katy Trail as a part of an ongoing partnership that brings public sculpture to the city’s beloved trail. Half Stepping Hot Stepper (2016) and Untitled (2017) originally began as assemblages of detritus that Martinez collected on the beach near his home and studio in Long Island and Ridgewood, NY. He cast these found objects in bronze and painted them with bright swaths of color using spray paint, oil, and enamel.... Learn More

Urban Historical Reclamation and Recognition

Freedman’s Towns: The Tenth Street Historic District Freedman’s Town

Nasher Public: Urban Historical Reclamation & Recognition (UHRR) was conceived by artist, curator, and veteran activist Vicki Meek to creatively capture the voices of communities of color whose neighborhoods are experiencing gentrification or erasure. This major project is designed to have three phases, each researching a Dallas neighborhood with a cohort of multi-disciplinary artists who works closely with the community to document and illustrate its historical importance... Learn More

Nasher Public: Alicia Eggert

at 2000 Ross Avenue

For her Nasher Public commission at 2001 Ross Avenue, Alicia Eggert has made The Time for Becoming. A steel structure with red neon lettering, the work of art shifts between messages. “NOW IS ONLY FOR THE TIME BEING” changes to “NOW IS ALWAYS THE TIME FOR BECOMING.” The work continues Eggert’s philosophical exploration of language and time. Using the language of commercial signage such as neon, steel, plastic, inflatables, and flowers, Eggert poses existential conundrums. Learn More

 


The project is steered by the Nasher curatorial team of Chief Curator Jed Morse, Curator Catherine Craft, and Curator Leigh Arnold, with especial support from project advisors artist Annette Lawrence and Founder of the Power Station, Alden Pinnell.  


Nasher Sculpture Center
2001 Flora Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
214.242.5100
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