Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs

Drawing from art history, visual culture, and her community of muses, Mickalene Thomas and the artists of tête-à-tête redefine concepts of beauty and challenge current societal traditions.

Truth or Dare: A Reality Show

Highlighting uncertainty and contradiction, Truth or Dare emphasizes the importance of questioning both knowledge and belief by featuring artists that utilize illusion to entice, entertain, and explore the slippery terrain between fact and fiction, presence and absence, reality and imagination.

Displacement: Collective Practice to Recover Memory

Displacement: Collective Practice to Recover Memory is a site-specific multi-media installation and collaboration with artist Juan-Sí González, Rosewood Arts Centre, the City of Kettering, and area residents.

Evidence (of a life lived)

An old child’s bank, in the guise of a safe, contains documentation and evidence of a life lived. Can the viewer find meaning from this anonymous archive of images and information to understand the time in which they were saved, from what place, and for what purpose?

Teju Cole and Vijay Iyer: Blind Spot

Vanguard composer and pianist Vijay Iyer and Nigerian-American writer and photographer Teju Cole perform the powerful interdisciplinary collaboration Blind Spot.

Domus Oculi

Domus Oculi is a contemporary camera obscura viewing room—a freestanding structure using repurposed lenses from antiquated visual technologies to create a transitory archive.

Mamma Andersson: Memory Banks

Painters often draw from
 existing visual materials, such as photographs and reproductions of past works of art, to inspire and construct their work. Swedish artist Mamma Andersson known for her dreamlike, faintly narrative compositions inspired by Nordic painting, folk art, newspaper photographs, and cinema—is no exception.

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