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25 Variable Stars: A Temporary Monument for Henrietta Swan Leavitt
at the Kendall/MIT Northbound MBTA station
featured in the Harvard Gazette
25 Variable Stars:
A Temporary Monument for Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Opens June 10, 2024
Kendall/MIT Northbound Red Line - temporary entrance
We had an amazing week in Copenhagen for the opening of
YET, IT MOVES!
Yet, It Moves!
Copenhagen Contemporary, May 12 2023 - December 30 2023
Nothing stands still. Even things we consider immutable are in constant motion – within, above and all around us. Motion is a fundamental premise of everything in the universe, from the tiniest atomic particles to the human body and the macrocosm of the stars. Recognized in glimpses, this greater, moving whole is embodied in spectacular artworks giving shape and form to complex phenomena like black holes, star formation and gravitational waves – from the macro scale of the expanding universe to the micro scale of atomic explosions and particle.
The exhibiting artists are Ryoji Ikeda, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Jenna Sutela, Ligia Bouton, Helene Nymann, Nina Nowak, Jens Settergren, Black Quantum Futurism, Cecilia Bengolea, Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm and Nora Turato.
! ! 2023 Exhibition News ! !
25 Stars: A Temporary Monument for Henrietta Swan Leavitt included in Yet, It Moves! at Copenhagen Contemporary
May 11, 2023- December 30, 2023
Penland Winter Residency 2023
In January 2023, I spent two incredibly productive weeks at the Penland School of Craft in Penland, North Carolina. During long days in the flame shop, I blew almost 100 pieces of glass that will be photographed and layered into my “25 Variable Star” portraits. More on that soon! Thanks Penland for the uninterrupted time and the use of your beautiful, historic, and fully equipped glass studio!
Missing Department is now OPEN
A.P.E. Gallery - Northampton, MA - November 10 to December 10, 2022
See an interview with Matt and I on Spectrum News about the exhibition here.
August 2023 - Visual Studies Workshop Project Space Residency
It has been an incredible month at VSW. I don’t think I realized how much I really needed this uninterrupted time and space to figure out where I want to go with the research work I have been doing at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I hope to be able to share more images and thoughts about this new project, which I am tentatively calling “Queen of the Night”, soon. But here is a first glimpse at the 25 Cepheid variable stars I am creating as lenticular photographic prints. I have made these gifs to get a sense of how the final images will move as you walk around them. Enjoy!
October 2021
Hyper/Reality at Amos Eno Gallery
Works by Aaron Wilder, Grant Johnson and Ligia Bouton
Oct 7 - 24, 2021
Exhibition Opening Reception: Friday, September 8 from 6-9 PM
Hyper/Reality is a Fall 2021 exhibition presented at Amos Eno Gallery that feature works in dialogue with reality and its discontents. Curated by gallery director Audra Lambert, Hyper/Reality is on view from Oct 7th through October 24th, and features artworks by Ligia Bouton, Grant Johnson and Aaron Wilder. The show examines how reality/ies can be skewed and re-interpreted utilizing new media, photography, mixed media, painting, collage, sculpture, installation and performance art.
Baudrillard’s 20th century art criticism introduced the concept of the hyperreal, which marks the rising importance of the Simulacrum over reality. Hyper/Reality confronts the many ways in which the hyperreal has overtaken reality in the present day, delving into digital and wireless technologies that have pervaded our view of what is, and is not, ‘real.’ Works on view in Hyper/Reality present altered visions of the ‘real,’ as defined by the overlap of digital, natural and social phenomenon that permeate our everyday lives.
photo credit: Aaron Wilder
August 2021
The Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, NY) announces it’s upcoming Project Space artists-in-residence. Find the full lists of artists here. I’m looking forward to spending the month of August ‘22 at VSW!
