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Hard Ground 
05–16–24 to 10-14-24 
Hard Ground brings together work by seven New York-based artists who employ processes of erosion, subtraction, and compression. Using an economy of means, the works hold residues of action in tension with a distillation or displacement of matter. Some works amplify density, honing in on a core; in others, reduction unveils the trace of an image. Diverging from a logic of assemblage and juxtaposition, these practices query how correlations between productivity, value, and surface are forged.

Artists include Matt Browning, Dora Budor, Jerry the Marble Faun, Amina Ross, Kern Samuel, Glanna Surangkanjanajal, and Mala VMIer

Organized by Jody Graf

Filed under:
Group Exhibition
       
“If Today Never Gives Up In Me”: Amina Ross’s Spacious Black Present
04-01-2024
Featuring a conversation with the artist, this essay offers a reading of Amina Ross's aesthetic practice across a selection of their work. Alongside Fred Moten's own critique of the overrepresentation of blackness as death-driven, it highlights their ongoing contributions to what they refer to as “black work,” or aesthetic experimentations in making multiple forms of blackness appear and emerge in the present moment. For Ross, the present is not merely a death-driven end but, at once, a rigid structure and a “space of unlimited potential” wherein blackness and black life may be experienced in their multiplicity. Placing objects in unexpected positions and built structures, Ross seeks to widen spectators' sense of their own present and immediate environment. As such, the present is, for them, a space to be, not escaped from, but worked on and reenvisioned in an effort to make a black present possible, livable, and replenishable.


Written by: Kelly I. Chung 
Published in ‘liquid blackness,’ Duke University Press. 
Filed under:
Bibliography 
Start with the Flesh 
11–09–23 to 01-06-24
"Start with the Flesh" introduces new video and glass sculptures that excavate this thematic terrain, unearthing concepts such as fragility, visibility, violence, submission, preservation, insulation, and resistance. The works are defined by a dichotic tension - teasing content from the elusive space between corporeal transience and creative transcendence. Central to the show is a seamlessly looped video that weaves text, sound, and image fragments into a digital tapestry of socio-poetic introspection. 



"Start with the flesh, reckons with the pounds. The mass. Recall that specificity. This requires naming gravity - the impacts of gravity on your heavy body. In this moment, know no ease. Settle into density."
       
Boundary Monuments Dissolve

04–01–23 to 05-08-23
Artists: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Jia-Jen Lin, Christopher Meerdo, Naomi Nakazato, and Amina Ross.

Boundary Monuments Dissolve features artists who employ digital-imaging techniques to unearth aesthetic and political turbulence within contested terrains.

Curated by Katherine C. M. Adams
In the Sunroom of Wave Hill, Ross’s multisensory environment comprises elements out of reclaimed materials in dialogue with the architecture of the space, markedly, the arched windows, along with video and audio.  




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