The decade-long creative partnership of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, which was cut short by Ericson’s death in 1995, resulted in a substantial body of public projects, site-specific installations, and mixed-media sculptures, all marked by a keen social conscience, an idiosyncratic wit, and a cool, Minimalist-inspired aesthetic. With twenty carefully selected works, including models, plans, and documentary slide shows, their recent retrospective paid tribute to the duo’s facility for poetically decoding the hidden agendas of a hypercapitalist nation.

The show takes its title, “America Starts