Jody Pinto’s five-decade practice spans sculpture, drawing, ephemeral outdoor installations, landscape interventions, and public art. Emerging during the 1970s Land art movement, Pinto made what she described as “living structures," site-responsive works dependent on weather, visitors, and found materials. As founder of Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR) in 1973, Pinto linked feminist activism with a lifelong commitment to public space. Her concept of “body/land” connects bodily and environmental forms and systems such as veins and irrigation, hair and plant growth, and cycles of injury and healing. Since the 1990s, she has completed more than fifty international public commissions, exploring municipal space as a form of public theater. Jody Pinto: Body/Land, the artist’s first retrospective, traces the scope of this career from her work in rape crisis activism, to early excavations and outdoor constructions, to later landscape and urban design projects. The exhibition restages several major installations and includes her experimentations in drawing, plans for realized and unrealized works, and a new outdoor sculpture presented in partnership with Art Lot in Brooklyn, NY. Body/Land will be accompanied by the publication of Pinto’s first monograph. Exhibition curated by DJ Hellerman, Deputy Director & Senior Curator, and Marie Catalano, Independent Curator. This exhibition is presented through Toby’s Prize, a special commission award made possible by Toby Devan Lewis. Lead support provided by Margaret Cohen & Kevin Rahilly & John P. Murphy Foundation.
