ON VIEW NOW • Works by Joe Overstreet, Ted Kurahara, and Thomas Sills are on view now at @wallachartgallery as part of “Dead lecturer / distant relative: Notes from the Woodshed, 1950–1980,” a group exhibition which focuses on works by Asian American and African American artists whose approaches to abstraction provided alternatives to prevailing vocabularies for representation and resistance during the social movements of the 1960s and 70s, and for whom the parameters of visibility continue to remain a problem for thought today. “Dead lecturer / distant relative” is open through October 1, 2022. “Dead Lecturer / distant relative gathers an archive of visual art and poetics to pose questions about the relationship between loss and kinship, between history and memory, and between race and abstraction. How do we recall the voices of those for whom art history has never represented either a reliable record or the proper horizon of address? How do we share the news of an archive of experiment whose relationship to the contemporary continues to be compromised by an ongoing history of racial violence and colonial enterprise? What forms of intimacy, address and refusal have yet to be imagined in and through this archive that exceed the prevailing art historical vocabularies for modernism, innovation, and abstraction?” 📷 Joe Overstreet “Fire Dance,” 1972 acrylic on constructed canvas canvas size 48 x 84 in Ted Kurahara “Double Portait Blue + White for K and M,” 1981 Acrylic on wood panels 72h x 72w in Thomas Sills “Burnt Forest,” 1975 oil on canvas 49h x 46w in “Dead Lecturer / distant relative” July 9 – October 1, 2022 On View at Wallach Art Gallery Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University
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