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Charles LeDray Exhibition

Presented by The Institute of Contemporary Art at Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA)

July 16-October 17, 2010

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For over 20 years, New York-based artist Charles LeDray has created handmade sculptures in stitched fabric, carved bone, and wheel-thrown clay. LeDray painstakingly fashions smaller-than-life formal suits, embroidered patches, ties, and hats, as well as scaled-down chests of drawers, doors, thousands of unique, thimble-sized vessels, and even complex models of the solar system.

The exhibition gathers approximately 50 sculptures and...

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The exhibition gathers approximately 50 sculptures and installations, from seminal early works to the first U.S. presentation of MENS SUITS (2006-2009), his highly acclaimed project presenting three complex, small-scale vignettes of second-hand clothing shops. The ICA will also premiere Throwing Shadows (2008-2010), an extraordinary new ceramic work including more than 3,000 vessels made of black porcelain, each less than two inches tall.

CHARLES LEDRAY: workworkworkworkwork will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA)

100 Northern Avenue
Boston, MA 02210

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$15 general admission

$13 seniors

$10 students

FREE members and youth 17 and under

FREE for all from 5 to 9 pm every Thursday for Target Free Thursday Nights

FREE for families (up to 2 adults accompanied by children 12 and under) on the last Saturday of each month with the exception of December.

ICA Free Admission for Youth is generously sponsored by the State Street Corporation

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Thu. and Fri. 10 am - 9 pm

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