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The Public Art Fund, as part of its Projects in Central Park collaboration with the Whitney Biennial, presents a day of artists' projects in Central Park featuring participatory installations and sculptural works by assume vivid astro focus and Dave Muller. These new projects will join several that are currently on view--by Paul McCarthy, Liz Craft, Olav Westphalen, and David Altmejd--adding a performance and viewer-participatory dimension to the Public Art Fund's outdoor component of the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Each of the works will open on April 17.
  
Schedule and Details for Saturday, April 17
11am - 5pm: Dave Muller's Three Day Weekend opens in the Arsenal Gallery.
1 - 3pm: The Skate Circle welcomes avaf 8 with assume vivid astro focus.
Featuring a special performance by Los Super Elegantes.
All events are free and open to the public.

		Dave Muller - Three Day Weekend, 2004 A group show with works by Polly Staple, assume vivid astro focus, Richard Hawkins, A.A. Weinman, Anne Collier, Barbara Bestor, Anthony Burdin, and Dave Muller. The Arsenal Gallery in the Arsenal Building, Third Floor, Fifth Avenue and 64th Street April 17-19, 11am - 5pm daily Since 1994, the Los Angeles-based artist Dave Muller has been organizing Three Day Weekends, a series of roving, intermittent group exhibitions--he describes the ongoing project as an "artist-run, nomadic project space." These shows remain on view for only three days and then disappear as suddenly as they arrived, remaining after the fact as little more than a rumor. For Central Park, Muller presents Three Day Weekend, featuring works by seven contemporary artists as well as a pair of bronze eagles made by early 20th-century sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman, originally made for Stanford White's Revolutionary War monument in Fort Greene Park. More about this project...
		assume vivid astro focus with Rama Chorpash - avaf 8, 2004 Between the Bandshell and the Sheep Meadow, just south of the 72nd Street Transverse (Enter park at 72nd Street from Central Park West or Fifth Avenue) April 17-May 4 When artist assume vivid astro focus first arrived in New York from his native Brazil, he was struck by the vibrancy of the many activities that take place in Central Park, particularly at the Skate Circle, a stretch of pavement that is transformed into a dance roller rink on spring and summer weekends. Working in collaboration with the Central Park Dance Skaters Association, assume vivid astro focus has created avaf 8, a vibrant floorscape for the surface of the Skate Circle which covers large sections of the pavement with intricate abstractions. He has also collaborated with industrial designer Rama Chorpash to create a colorful canopy for the center of the Skate Circle. On April 17, 1-3pm, avaf 8 opens to the general public and, especially, to all skaters. The afternoon features a special performance by assume vivid astro focus's frequent collaborators and fellow Biennial artists Los Super Elegantes. More about this project...

Sponsorship
The Public Art Fund projects in Central Park, presented in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, are sponsored by Bloomberg and generously supported by Adam Lindemann.

assume vivid astro focus’s avaf 8 is a project of the Public Art Fund program In the Public Realm, which is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, A State Agency, the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President, The Greenwall Foundation, The Silverweed Foundation, The JPMorgan Chase Foundation, and friends of the Public Art Fund.

This exhibition is made possible through the cooperation of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.

Location
The Public Art Fund projects in Central Park are located throughout the entire length of Central Park, from 60th Street to 110th Street.
View a map of Public Art Fund Projects in Central Park --A collaboration with the Whitney Biennial.