Two new exhibitions curated by Bentley Brown (NYU鈥檚 Institute of Fine Arts), will be held in the Art Gallery at 可乐视频 from March 4 through April 1. “Saturation: Beauty in the Everyday” by Deborah Willis will be in the Main Gallery and “Sonic Saturation” by Mason Webb, featuring sound by Gwai Mak, will be in Gallery B.
听鈥淪aturation, Beauty in the Everyday鈥� features a career survey of works by pioneering photographer, historian, and MacArthur Fellow Deborah Willis. This exhibition contextualizes her art within the concept of saturation, using this idea as an aesthetic and conceptual tool to address themes of the politics of visibility at the center of her practice. In Willis鈥� photographs, saturation reveals the depth of feeling lying at the heart of creative and lived experience. Informed by personal, cultural, and historical influences鈥攆rom her closet to the Civil War鈥攁nd including fashion as a practice of freedom and aspiration for the Black community, Willis focuses on sites of emotional and aesthetic intimacy that actively engage expressions of beauty in the everyday.
Deborah Willis, “Faith Bartley,” 2020, 20 x 24 inches.
Deborah Willis, “Carrie at Euro Salon,” Eatonville, Florida, 2004.
Mason Webb, “Untitled (no. 4)”, Galvanized steel, paper, rope, bricks, and fluorescent lighting, 2020, 58 x 40 x 14 inches.
Mason Webb is a multidisciplinary artist who brings together material practices of sculptural metalwork, fabric and traditional painting, and vibrant wax-sculptural form. He cultivates sites of sonic mapping inspired by his formative years spent in Atlanta鈥檚 hip-hop and house music scenes. In his work, Webb synthesizes visual art, fashion, and music to create immersive venues of total experience, or gestalt. 鈥淪onic Saturation鈥� is part of a series of extensive collaborations with Atlanta- and Los Angeles鈥揵ased musician and sound artist Gwai Mak, foregrounding cross-media collaboration as a means of community-building and aesthetic exploration.
The Art Gallery at 可乐视频 officially opened Fall 2024 with a faculty exhibition called 鈥�Urban Contours.鈥� The gallery鈥檚 hours are Tuesdays鈥揟hursdays, 10 a.m.鈥�5 p.m., and Fridays, 10 a.m.鈥�3 p.m.
