Join us in celebrating Gallery 44's summer exhibitions opening in all four galleries!
In the Main Gallery, Grazing builds on past collaborative work of Meech Boakye and Evelyn Austin, gathering archived family photos, foraged grasses and herbs, raw wool and lullabies, to invite audiences to feel comfort within bucolic imagery, organic materials and ambient field recordings. Just as the artists’ respective practices consider relationships amongst multispecies kin and implications with the politics of extraction, the project ruminates on the deceptive potential of nostalgia and pastoral yearning.
In the Vitrines, The Sacred Nothing resituates a body of images taken while Jason Lujan was an artist-in-residence with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. The photographs depict cultural objects “behind the scenes”, in storage or undergoing conservation and documentation, removed from their original context, their meanings shift when they appear as specimens or patients awaiting surgery.
In the Members' Gallery, Ashley Culver, Lesia Miga, Gabrielle Trach weigh the idea of preservation through the passing on of knowledge, physical objects, and time handheld handmade handoff.
In the Production Gallery, Ariyo, Carolyn Cheng, Richelle Forsey and Peggy Taylor Reid presents Si(gh)t[e] Lines, a collective narrative through their shared concerns for the Earth’s ecology, explored using different approaches and techniques with photography.
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