Exhibition: May 17–July 26
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 17, 1–3 p.m.
GAME! Basketball and Contemporary Art celebrates basketball as a source of creative expression and community connection. Anchored by the renovation of the Great Park’s four basketball courts—featuring original, site-specific art by California artist, Katy Ann Gilmore—the exhibition showcases a selection of contemporary artists from the book Common Practice: Basketball and Contemporary Art who explore the culture and aesthetics of basketball, alongside a survey of Project Backboard’s national and international court renovations.
Project Backboard is an Irvine-based non-profit organization that repairs and resurfaces public basketball courts with large-scale, site-specific artworks. Transforming court surfaces into vibrant works of art, Project Backboard aims to strengthen communities, enhance park safety, encourage multi-generational play, and inspire creative and thoughtful engagement with public space. Since its founding in 2015, Project Backboard has renovated over 100 courts in more than twenty-five U.S. states, as well as in Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Portugal, in collaboration with artists such as Nina Chanel Abney, Jason REVOK, and Andy Warhol.