Image: Ogunquit Museum of American Art
From April 23 through November 14, 2027, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art will present Ryan Schneider’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States throughout its three-acre sculpture gardens.
The exhibition will include a new site-responsive work created from a white ash tree from the museum’s grounds that was killed by the invasive emerald ash borer beetle. During a monthlong residence at the museum, Schneider developed and worked on a pair of new large-scale sculptures for the project.
Based in Joshua Tree, California, Schneider creates figurative and abstract forms that emerge from the inherent qualities of natural materials, revealing knots, fractures, crystalline patterns and other traces of geological and ecological time.
His work offers a contemporary extension of Ogunquit’s historic tradition of direct carving while exploring landscape, ecology, mythology and humanity’s relationship to the natural world.
The project creates a dialogue between the Museum’s modernist history and the evolving ecological landscape of coastal Maine.
The Museum was founded by a community of artists and supporters and opened in 1953.
