Hear Her: Works by Dyani White Hawk
November 4 – December 15, 2021
Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) merges modernist art strategies with Indigenous art forms, highlighting the intersections of artistic and national histories. Hear Her features mixed media paintings, photographs, and prints, as well as an eight-channel video installation titled LISTEN that introduces audiences to some of the Indigenous languages of this continent while illustrating the divide between the general American public and Native nations.
Lois Dodd: Windows and Reflections
November 3 – December 15, 2016
Lois Dodd: Windows and Reflections focuses on a subject that has fascinated Dodd for nearly fifty years. Her images of windows, as well as natural apertures such as ponds and intersecting tree limbs, call attention to the way we variously frame and focus our attention.
Piece Together: The Quilts of Mary Lee Bendolph and Celebrating the Quilts of Gee’s Bend
September 6 — October, 2018
These exhibitions, public events, and an accompanying 82-page scholarly catalog examine the history and aesthetic legacy of Gee's Bend and celebrate the artistry of Mary Lee Bendolph, one of three quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama who were recognized with a 2015 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts.
Conflicting Truths: Works by Melissa Joseph
March 8 — April 8, 2023
Melissa Joseph’s textile-based practice synthesizes diverse processes and inspirations with her intuitive responses to archival images and found materials. Curated by Tess Wei, Conflicting Truths features wall-mounted, shallow relief, and sculptural artworks that highlight Joseph’s exploration of varied media, including both wet- and needle- felted wool, raw dupioni silk, stoneware, and linen pulp.
Paul S. Briggs: Material Shapes in Clay
January 20 — March 23, 2022
Early in his career, Briggs became well known for creating high relief clay vessels that evoke the delicate symmetry of plant forms. He pinch-forms these vessels through a labor-intensive and meditative process, and the resulting works evoke a corresponding sense of ritual and gravitas. Briggs’ slab-formed vessels have the spiritual resonance of ancient architecture and the muscular beauty of varied Chinese ceramic traditions.
Rackstraw Downes: A Wider View
March 5 — April 5, 2020
Curated by List Gallery Director Andrea Packard, Rackstraw Downes: A Wider View features more than 20 paintings created between 1966 and 2017. The selected works reflect the artist's intense focus on the appearance, history, and evolving character of his chosen subjects, be they farmlands in Maine, underpasses or architectural interiors in Manhattan, shipping lanes or landfills in New Jersey, or radio towers and ditches in Texas.
Ubiquitous Presence: Selected Works by Barbara Bullock
September 15 - October 30, 2022
Born in 1938 and raised in Philadelphia, Bullock is one of the Mid-Atlantic region's most notable and widely-respected artists. She has spent nearly sixty years challenging European artistic and cultural conventions; offering new ways of approaching form, color, and process; and investigating complex ideas related to gender, belief systems, dreams, and other aspects of identity. Shifting between abstract and figurative modes, Bullock centers and honors diverse Black cultures. She also prioritizes the cultivation of relationships – both ancestral and contemporary – in every aspect of her life and practice.
Orit Hofshi: Resilience
September 8 – October 22, 2011
Hofshi's haunting vistas of ruins and rugged landscapes respond to both the sublime forces of nature and the consequences of war. The daughter of Holocaust survivors who helped found Matzuva, one of Israel's first kibbutzim, she grew up witnessing conflicts over land and ideology written in the changing boundaries and ecology of the country.
William Daley: Vesica Explorations
September 4 – October 30, 2009
Bill Daley is internationally acclaimed for his visually complex slab-built ceramic vessels. His architectonic forms explore varied relationships between interior and exterior geometries. Synthesizing ancient spiritual symbols and elements of sacred architecture, especially the vesica form of overlapping circles, Daley’s vessels are both iconic and inventive.
