Jeffrey Gibson: Time Carriers
September 28 - December 20, 2019
Opening reception: Friday 27 September, 6–10pm
‘Time Carriers’ conjures a vision of many hands providing a framework of support, a fluid utopia where trust and movement go hand in hand. It evokes a time frame that both unites and collapses present, past, and future into an undulating and responsive single unit, something that could best be described as community or family. This idea seems especially appropriate when considering Jeffrey Gibson’s work, as it has always pushed to create kinship among unlikely partners.
Gibson’s artwork intermingles elements of traditional Native American art, art historical references, craft, and pop culture. A wide range of both historic and contemporary Native American symbols and objects including powwow regalia, 19th century parfleche containers, and drums are seamlessly merged with elements from Modernist geometric abstraction, Minimalism, the pattern and decoration of traditional textile practices, as well as techno, rave, and club culture.
Jeffrey Gibson: To Name An Other
October 19, 2019
The performance is produced in partnership with Springboard Performance, the Fluid Festival and Esker Foundation, as part of Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition Time Carriers. Saturday 19 October, 3-4pm, free Atlantic Avenue Art Block Lobby In a special performance as part of >> read more
Nep Sidhu: Divine of Form, Formed in the Divine (Medicine for a Nightmare)
September 28 - December 20, 2019
curated by cheyanne turions
Opening reception: Friday 27 September, 6-10pm
Nep Sidhu is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is concerned with the reverberations of form, antiquity, myth, and history with an affinity for community. Through material investigations that use textiles, sculpture, video and sound, Sidhu’s work seeks moments of knowledge transfer.
Divine of Form, Formed in the Divine (Medicine for a Nightmare) examines how memories persist in the present, especially when related to personal and collective practices of resistance, resilience, and ritual. This mid-career survey is anchored by recent works that reflect upon Sikh histories, amongst other collectively formed and formative histories considered through collaborations with Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes and Nicholas Galanin, exploring how memorialization practices can transfigure grief and loss, and how they contribute to a writing of histories that speak back to power by celebrating cultural knowledge and practices.