Category Archives: Exhibitions
fracture / repair
Now and always, artists and art institutions are called to visualize our histories and the possibilities of our future anchored to the values that shape humanity. A reflective response to the global calls to action concerning reparations, climate justice, occupation … Continue reading
New Forms: that which constitutes (critical) matter
New Forms: that which constitutes (critical) matter foregrounds the relationship between material, making, representation, interpretation, radical aesthetic, regeneration, and intellectual imaginings. The exhibition centers alternative forms of art-making and conceptual practices that subvert perception, revealing the undercurrents of historical discourse, … Continue reading
Practice as Ritual / Ritual as Practice
The Libby Leshgold Gallery and Artspeak Gallery are pleased to present Practice as Ritual / Ritual as Practice, a touring exhibition curated by Andrea Fatona and Nya Lewis. On view at the Libby Leshgold Gallery September 15 – November 5, … Continue reading
It Is Still Living…
Artspeak welcomes guest curators Yasaman Moussavi and Elmira Sarreshtehdari. The exhibition acts as an interwoven tapestry of narratives from six Iranian artists living in North America, as they reflect on the recent women-led uprisings, and their experiences as immigrant bodies … Continue reading
Ake Huchimagachach Ena (I’ll see you again mother) Ake Huchimagachach Ade (I’ll see you again father)
In Stoney there is no word for goodbye, only “Ake Huchimagachach,” which means “I’ll see you again in this life or the next.” A gesture toward boundless preservation, Soloman Chiniquay and jaz whitford create cultural memoirs, snapshots enlivening the cataclysms … Continue reading
No Neutral Language
A critical duet and inquiry into the complex representation of “common ground” in communicative exchanges. The dialogical exhibition asserts a shared belief in the parallels of language as a tool of instruction, and the predisposition of constructing/deconstructing emergent collectives. … Continue reading
Dazhän Kwändür ch’e (This is a Story)
“When you have a traumatic situation, details fade away,” Cole Pauls’ grandfather points out in “Estsiye Kime (Grandpa’s Home),” one of 32 comics collected in Pauls’ third book, Kwändǖr. Pauls avoids this complication through straightforward storytelling that gets to the … Continue reading
Overflow Chart
Working across a depth of materials and modes of making, Overflow Chart is an exhibition by Natalie Purschwitz. The work in Overflow Chart charts a line across a series of traces, or an imprint through various material iterations. What emerges … Continue reading
Royal Debris
Gelare Khoshgozaran’s film installation Royal Debris (2022) is informed by her decade-long research about the shuttered former Embassy of Iran in Washington D.C. Located at 3005 Massachusetts Ave N.W., the vacant building embodies a contradiction: it is a ruin due … Continue reading