"Goals," Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere, in the Sports Sports Sports exhibition at Art Windsor-Essex, Canada, 2025 — Installation view, “Goals,” Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere, in the *Sports Sports Sports* exhibition at Art Windsor-Essex, Ontario, Canada, 2025. Image courtesy of AWE, photograph by Frank Piccolo.

Detail of GOALS by Suparak and Kashmere, at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts — Installation view, “Goals, Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere, at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 2015

Goals

Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere
Installation (Vinyl Gym Tape)
Approx. 125 x 68 feet (dimensions variable)
2015 | 2025
https://bit.ly/goals_asbk

Description
Exhibitions
Press & Reviews
From the Sports series

Goals is a floor installation that superimposes the goals of six major team sports into an actual-scale “color field” abstraction of hollow winning.

EXHIBITIONS

SPORTSNATION

@ Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
May 15 – August 15, 2015

SPORTSNATION teams together new and recent works that reflect on and remix American sports culture.

Winningest

@ Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
January 23 – February 6, 2018

We are the champions. And the losers. This is a non-zero-sum game, where gains can be made off the scoreboard, outside of the game clock, beyond the field, and even in moments rife with pain or ambiguity.

This exhibition divulges shameful and disregarded aspects of sports. It accentuates the kinships and struggles of athletes, and revels in the moments that break with the past and usher in new eras.

Sports Sports Sports

Co-curated by Jennifer Matotek, Emily McKibbon, and Julie Rae Tucker
@ Art Windsor-Essex, Ontario, Canada
March 8 – September 21, 2025
Artists: Judy Anderson, Krystal Bigsky, Kristina Bradt, Douglas Coupland, Maria Hupfield Brian Jungen, Brett Kashmere, Lisa Lipton, Myfanwy MacLeod, Kevin McKenzie, Hazel Meyer, Esmaa Mohamoud, Kristine Moran, Bridget Moser, Howardena Pindell, Wendy Red Star,Alysha Seriani, Astria Suparak, Hank Willis Thomas, and Joanne Tod

Artists and athletes show us what is possible, culturally, socially, and physically. They struggle against the odds. They persevere.

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“Crazy, weird, overwhelming, trippy”
— A review from a child, Spring Break Art Camp, Art Windsor-Essex, 2025

PRESS & REVIEWS

CBS Pittsburgh

Excerpt:

This is perfect timing with the media blitz of sports that depict sports heroes through an assortment of mesmerizing collections. The banners seem to jump off the wall and describe the nuances of basketball and other sports, such as hockey and football. The floor design runs freely in all directions, and the visual presentation of a basketball net, an NBA jersey and the variety of slogans on the wall represent the cultural importance and reverence for sports. There is a story with each project and lesson to be learned about sports culture and history, and the kids will have an enriching and educational experience.
— Gerry Cernicky, “Best Upcoming Exhibits For Kids In Pittsburgh,” July 20, 2015

Spring Break Art Camp, Art Windsor-Essex

“Crazy, weird, overwhelming, trippy”
— A review from a child who selected Goals as their favorite work in the Sports Sports Sports exhibition.

“It’s not often that I see young boys so excited about art. They instantly recognize the lines and try to decipher how many, and which courts, are represented in Goals.
We also use the installation as a starting point for activities—we talk about courts as community gathering spaces.”
— Sophie Hinch, Education & Public Programs Coordinator, Art Windsor-Essex