Left: Detail of ceiling fresco, ca. 16th Century. Courtesy Uffizi, Florence.
Right: Lisa Yuskavage Smiley, 2003, Oil on Linen, 34 x 30 inches. Collection David Teiger, Photo courtesy of Marianne Boeskey Gallery, New York.

This exhibition, curated by Robert Storr, will look at the idea of the grotesque, defined as the counterterm to artistic idealism, in contemporary art. The exhibition will examine a cross-section of recent 'grotesqueries' in an effort to highlight the range and ambition of its practitioners, and in the hope of rescuing the term from its common pejorative connotations. SITE’s International Biennials invite leading curators and critics to explore compelling issues in contemporary art. Robert Storr, an artist and critic, has been the senior curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has recently been appointed Rosalee Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Previous curators of SITE Santa Fe's International Biennial have been Bruce Ferguson (1995), Francisco Bonami (1997), Rosa Martinez (1999), and Dave Hickey (2001).

This exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with a introduction by Charles A. Stainback, executive director of SITE Santa Fe, and an essay by Robert Storr.

For more information about future exhibitions please contact SITE Santa Fe directly at info@sitesantafe.org.