Our friend Alex has organized this amazing benefit auction for the Special Education PTA in Hamden, CT. I donated a drawing and Sam donated some of her beautiful ceramics, a vase and a pair of mugs. There are so many great artists participating. Bidding is available online (link in bio) and there’s a live auction this afternoon as well. Thanks Alex! @pristinechickpea
Only three more days to see Justin Caguiat’s Triple Solitaire — the show is up at the gallery through this Sunday, 12/8.
Three paintings presented as a triptych interrupted by the limestone buttress walls of the gallery, three umbrellas each playing a unique sound composition, and a mirror painting. Stop through!
Photograpy by Dario Lasagni. @dariolasagni@wescfa@wesleyan_u@greenenaftali@stuartshavemodernart@wes_zilkhagallery
These are the last few days of Grant Mooney’s calcis, up at the gallery through this Sunday, 12/8. The installation is such a sensitive address to this brutalist building. It’s been such a pleasure to live with this exhibition over the last couple months. Thank you @lilxl Come on by! Don’t miss it! @altmansiegel@miguelabreugallery
Log: Jonah’s music requests in chronological order. We commute to/from school and work together most days. Here are his picks from the morning and evening commute of November 14.
Send some special birthday love to this amazing person on her solar return. The past seven months of this year have been filled with health challenges in our family — trials of middle age. Despite her own accident she’s been holding us all together with her thoughtfulness, beauty, grace, strength, and patience (though stretched at times, naturally!). Today I’m hoping we could give some back. I love you Sam. @maslopot Please send her a note today - as my mom would say, “Beam her up.” ❤️
This is the last week to see “No Title: Relays and Relations, Works by Renée Green and Sol LeWitt” in the gallery. The show is up through this Sunday, December 3rd. The result of so many conversations and discussions over the last three years, I couldn’t be happier with the show. Hope you have a chance to see it! Thank you to all everyone who helped make it a reality, to Renée and the Estate of Sol LeWitt, Javier Anguera, @__rosem.__ , @letsthelittlethings , @jlubinlevy , @krakow.witkin.gallery , @bortolamigallery , @gabrielhurier , and all of the students who helped install the LeWitt wall drawings. Link in bio to view more installation images of the exhibition. Photography by @dariolasagni
We’re opening two solo exhibitions in the gallery this afternoon, with Carrie Yamaoka and Ilana Harris-Babou. Carrie’s exhibition, seeing is forgetting and remembering and forgetting again, presents new and newly-reconfigured works all installed in relation to the site, the same gallery where Carrie exhibited her undergraduate thesis some years before. Some works that Carrie derived from work done on-site during multiple visits to the gallery last summer.
Ilana Harris-Babou’s installation, Liquid Gold, is a large single-channel video installation with a sculptural component, both playfully considering the history of Black breastfeeding in America. The sculpture has a kinetic component, pumping a milky liquid through tubing which moves in and out of ceramics on the table.
Both artists will be here for the opening which begins in about one hour, 4:30-6:00pm EST and both shows will be up through Sunday, March 5, 2023. Come by! @wes_zilkhagallery@wescfa@wesleyan_u
@szhnho and @nadiashihab are performing this Sunday, November 20th, at 1:00pm in @wes_zilkhagallery . I’m really excited for this!
If you’re in the area please come by!
two/fold is a sound performance by artists Nadia Shihab and Szu-Han Ho which takes the detailed fragments of two abandoned family homes–in Iraq and Taiwan–as the starting point for exploring the sound-feel of diaspora, loss, and transmutation. Incorporating live performance, samples, and processes of improvisation, two/fold builds a sonic image of double exposure. They use the rhythm of mother tongues, the sounds of chopping a banana tree, chewing sugarcane, and other frequencies pulled from their archives to generate a space where separate migration histories find overlap and dissonance.
