The Audacity of Scale

A group exhibition exploring how artists deploy scale—from microscopic to monumental—to challenge perception, reshape meaning, and transform the viewer's relationship to artworks across painting, phot

Why go

The exhibition assembles a genuinely international roster (Casebere, Duchamp/Man Ray, Kosuth, Fritsch, Martínez, Fonseca Quiñones, Thiel, González, Tschäpe, Landon-Pole, Inomata, Charrière, Wiley, Khan, Sikander, Innes, McCall, Horn, Espírito Santo, Baldessari, Grasso) to investigate scale as both formal strategy and conceptual tool—from James Case

What to expect

Spanning painting, photography, video, works on paper, and sculpture, the show ranges from the microscopic (Duchamp and Man Ray's dust photograph, Julian Charrière's reclaimed-silver mirror) to the monumental (Janaina Tschäpe's 112 x 164 inch abstraction, Joseph Kosuth's 70-inch clock), with works that deliberately invert or collapse expected scale

Things to know

• James Casebere's 1985 photograph of a handmade model references Plato's Cave, collapsing the distinction between miniature and monumental.
• Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding' transforms microscopic debris into an expansive landscape through cropping and magnification.
• Kehinde Wiley employs miniature scale to subvert the monumental portraiture he is known for, questioning assumptions about size and power in
• Shahzia Sikander's 'NOW'—a small version of an eight-foot sculpture on the New York State Supreme Court—references Ruth Bader Ginsburg via a
• Callum Innes's 'Exposed Painting Delft Blue Phthalocyanine' (250 x 242 cm) was executed at the largest scale physically possible within the
• Rebecca Horn's 'Bodylandscapes' series is directly proportional to the artist's own body, defined by the limits of her arms' reach.

Plan your visit

Sean Kelly Gallery is open Tuesday–Friday, 11am–6pm, and Saturday, 10am–6pm. Located at 475 Tenth Avenue at 36th Street, New York.