Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves

Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves brings together paintings by Elizabeth Murray (b. 1940, Chicago; d. 2007, New York) and the work of New York-based sculptor Jessi Reaves (b. 1986, Portland, OR; lives in New York). Although Murray and Reaves are generations apart, this exhibition highlights each artist’s simultaneously lyrical, playful, and rigorous engagement with the decorative, domestic, and bodily.

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The Art of Cruelty

The Art of Cruelty is an interdisciplinary exhibition exploring cruelty as a historically relevant form of artistic expression. Inspired by poet and scholar Maggie Nelson’s The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011), a book analyzing representations of cruelty in art of the 20th and 21st centuries, this large-scale thematic exhibition asks, as Nelson does, whether there are certain instances of cruelty that remain productive or worthwhile to consider, and whether such a consideration may allow for more a thoughtful and nuanced examination of a history of violence (both real and symbolic) in art. While Nelson’s book looks across the 20th century, this exhibition takes a more contemporary focus, presenting film, photography, sculpture, painting, performance, poetry, prose, and video by approximately thirty artists from the 1960s to the present, with emphasis on art made over the last thirty years.

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